Events

• April 18 - Contralto Mariska Horvath
  Mariska Aldrich
  Mariska Aldrich was an American dramatic soprano singer and actress. She was born Mariska Horvath in Boston, Massachusetts. She was a pupil of Alfred Giraudet and Georg Henschel. She debuted at the Manhattan Opera House in 1908, as the Page in Les Huguenots. She sang with the Manhattan Opera...
  
   marries politician J. Frank Aldrich
  J. Frank Aldrich
  James Franklin Aldrich was a United States Representative from Illinois. He was born in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. He moved with his parents to Chicago, Illinois in April 1861 where he attended the public schools. Later, he attended Chicago University and graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic...
  
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• October 27 – First complete performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff
  Sergei Rachmaninoff
  Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
  
  's Piano Concerto No. 2
  Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)
  The Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, is a concerto for piano and orchestra composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901. The second and third movements were first performed with the composer as soloist on 2 December 1900...
  
  
• November 25 – Premiėre of Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
  
  's Symphony No. 4
  Symphony No. 4 (Mahler)
  The Symphony No. 4 by Gustav Mahler was written between 1899 and 1901, though it incorporates a song originally written in 1892. The song, "Das himmlische Leben", presents a child's vision of Heaven. It is sung by a soprano in the work's fourth and last movement...
  
  
• The classical music publishing firm Universal Edition
  Universal Edition
  Universal Edition is a classical music publishing firm. Founded in 1901 in Vienna, and originally intended to provide the core classical works and educational works to the Austrian market...
  
   is founded in Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
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• Enrique Granados
  Enrique Granados
  Enrique Granados y Campiña was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, representative of musical nationalism...
  
   founds the Academia Granados in Spain.
• Geraldine Farrar
  Geraldine Farrar
  Geraldine Farrar was an American soprano opera singer and film actress, noted for her beauty, acting ability, and "the intimate timbre of her voice." She had a large following among young women, who were nicknamed "Gerry-flappers".- Early life and opera career :Farrar was born in Melrose,...
  
   makes her operatic debut.
• Percy Grainger
  Percy Grainger
  George Percy Aldridge Grainger , known as Percy Grainger, was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist. In the course of a long and innovative career he played a prominent role in the revival of interest in British folk music in the early years of the 20th century. He also made many...
  
   makes his recital debut.
• Thirteen-year-old Agustín Barrios
  Agustín Barrios
  Agustín Pío Barrios , an eminent Paraguayan guitarist and composer, was born in the department of Misiones, Paraguay and died in San Salvador, El Salvador...
  
   begins attending university in Asunción
  Asunción
  Asunción is the capital and largest city of Paraguay.The "Ciudad de Asunción" is an autonomous capital district not part of any department. The metropolitan area, called Gran Asunción, includes the cities of San Lorenzo, Fernando de la Mora, Lambaré, Luque, Mariano Roque Alonso, Ñemby, San...
  
   on a music scholarship.
• Ragtime
  Ragtime
  Ragtime is an original musical genre which enjoyed its peak popularity between 1897 and 1918. Its main characteristic trait is its syncopated, or "ragged," rhythm. It began as dance music in the red-light districts of American cities such as St. Louis and New Orleans years before being published...
  
   popularity grows.

Published popular music

• "Ain't That A Shame" w. John Queen m. Walter Wilson
• "All That Glitters Is Not Gold" w. George A. Norton m. James W. Casey
• "Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat Is Home Sweet Home To Me" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
  
  
• "At The Pan-I-Marry-Can" w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon
• "Baby Mine" w. Raymond A. Browne m. Leo Friedman
  Leo Friedman
  Leo Friedman was an American composer of popular music. Friedman was born in Elgin, Illinois and died in Chicago, Illinois. He is best remembered for composing the sentimental waltz "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" with lyrics by Beth Slater Whitson in 1910...
  
  
• "The Billboard" m. John N. Klohr
• "Blaze Away" m. Abe Holzmann
  Abe Holzmann
  Abe Holzmann was a German/American composer, who is most famous today for his march Blaze-Away!Abraham Holzmann was born in New York City. His parents were Jacob Holzmann, a Hungarian immigrant and Isabella Holzmann, a native of Louisiana. The young Holzmann learned music in Germany...
  
  
• "Coon! Coon! Coon!" by Leo Friedman
  Leo Friedman
  Leo Friedman was an American composer of popular music. Friedman was born in Elgin, Illinois and died in Chicago, Illinois. He is best remembered for composing the sentimental waltz "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" with lyrics by Beth Slater Whitson in 1910...
  
   & Gene Jefferson
• "The Country Girl"      w. Stanislaus Stange m. Julian Edwards
• "Davy Jones' Locker"      w.m. H. W. Petrie
• "Don't Put Me Off At Buffalo Any More"      w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
  
  
• "Down Where The Cotton Blossoms Grow"      w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "Eyes Of Blue, Eyes Of Brown"      w.m. Costen & Andrew B. Sterling
• "Flora, I Am Your Adorer" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Charles Robinson
• "The Fortune Telling Man" w.m. Bert Williams
  Bert Williams
  Egbert Austin "Bert" Williams was one of the preeminent entertainers of the Vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. He was by far the best-selling black recording artist before 1920...
  
   & George Walker
  George Walker (vaudeville)
  George Walker was an African American vaudevillian. In 1893, in San Francisco, Walker met Bert Williams, who became his performing partner. Walker and Williams appeared in The Gold Bug , Clorindy , The Policy Player , Sons of Ham , In Dahomey , Abyssinia , and Bandanna Land...
  
  
• "Go Way Back And Sit Down" w. Elmer Bowman m. Al Johns
• "Good Morning, Carrie" w. Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack was an American composer, lyricist and music publisher....
  
   m. Chris Smith & Elmer Bowman
• "He Calls Me His Own Grace Darling" w.m.Lawrence Barclay
• "He Laid Away A Suit Of Gray To Wear The Union Blue" w. Edward M. Wickes m. Ben Jansen
• "He Ought To Have A Tablet In The Hall of Fame" w. Arthur L. Robb m. John Walter Bratton
  John Walter Bratton
  John Walter Bratton was an American Tin Pan Alley composer and theatrical producer who became popular during the era known as the Gay Nineties-Early life:...
  
  
• "Hello Central, Give Me Heaven" w.m. Charles K. Harris
  Charles K. Harris
  Charles Kassel Harris was a well regarded American songwriter of popular music. During his long career, he advanced the relatively new genre, publishing more than 300 songs, often deemed by admirers as the "king of the tear jerkers"...
  
  
• "Hiawatha
  Hiawatha (A Summer Idyl)
  "Hiawatha " is a popular song written by Neil Moret in 1901. James O'Dea added lyrics in 1903 and the music was re-subtitled ""....
  
  " w. James O'Dea m. Neil Moret
  Neil Moret
  Charles N. Daniels , was a composer, occasional lyricist, and music publishing executive. He employed many pseudonyms, including Neil Moret, Jules Lemare, L'Albert, Paul Bertrand, Julian Strauss, and Sidney Carter...
  
   Words written 1903.
• "High Society
  High Society (Porter Steele)
  High Society is a multi-strain melody, originally a march copyrighted in April 1901 by Porter Steele, which has become a traditional jazz standard....
  
  " Porter Steele
• "Hoity-Toity" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg
• "Jagtime Johnson's Ragtime March" by Fred L. Ryder
• "The Honeysuckle And The Bee" w. Albert H. Fitz m. William H. Penn
• "I Ain't A-goin' To Weep No More" w. George Totten Smith m. Harry von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "I Hate To Get Up Early In The Morning" w. John Queen m. Hughie Cannon
  Hughie Cannon
  Hughie Cannon was a composer and lyricist who was born in Detroit 1877 and died in 1912 in Toledo.-His Works and Bio:His best known composition was the popular song Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey. He wrote the song at the age of sixteen and this ragtime song was published in 1902...
  
  
• "I Love You Truly" w.m. Carrie Jacobs-Bond
  Carrie Jacobs-Bond
  Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter who composed some 175 pieces of popular sheet music from the 1890s through the early 1940s....
  
  
• "I Want To Be A Lidy" w. George Dance m. George Dee
• "If You Love Your Baby, Make Dem Goo-Goo Eyes" w. Bert Williams
  Bert Williams
  Egbert Austin "Bert" Williams was one of the preeminent entertainers of the Vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. He was by far the best-selling black recording artist before 1920...
  
   m. George Walker
  George Walker (vaudeville)
  George Walker was an African American vaudevillian. In 1893, in San Francisco, Walker met Bert Williams, who became his performing partner. Walker and Williams appeared in The Gold Bug , Clorindy , The Policy Player , Sons of Ham , In Dahomey , Abyssinia , and Bandanna Land...
  
  
• "I'll Be With You When The Roses Bloom Again" w. Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb was an American lyricist and composer. He had a writing partnership with Ren Shields that produced many popular musicals and musical comedies.Productions and input of Will D. Cobb...
  
   m. Gus Edwards
  Gus Edwards (songwriter)
  Gus Edwards was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher.-Early life:...
  
  
• "I'm Tired" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
  
  
• "In The Shade Of The Palm" w.m. Leslie Stuart
  Leslie Stuart
  Leslie Stuart was an English composer of early musical theatre, best known for the hit show Florodora and many popular songs. Stuart began writing songs in the late 1870s, including songs for blackface performers, such as "Lily of Laguna"; songs for musical theatre; and ballads such as "Soldiers...
  
  
• "The Invincible Eagle March" w.m. John Philip Sousa
  John Philip Sousa
  John Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. Because of his mastery of march composition, he is known as "The March King" or the "American March King" due to his British counterpart Kenneth J....
  
  
• "It Seems Like Yesterday" w. Frederic Ranken m. Isidore Witmark
• "I've Grown So Used To You" w.m. Thurland Chattaway
  Thurland Chattaway
  Thurland Chattaway was a popular music composer, active from approximately 1898 to 1912. Most famous for writing the words to the popular hit "Red Wing". Other songs include "Little Black Me" and "Can't You Take It Back and Change It For a Boy"....
  
  
• "Josephine, My Jo" w. Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack
  Cecil Mack was an American composer, lyricist and music publisher....
  
   m. J. Tim Brymn
• "Just A-Wearyin' For You" w. Frank Lebby Stanton
  Frank Lebby Stanton
  Frank Lebby Stanton—born February 22, 1857 in Charleston, South Carolina, died January 7, 1927 in Atlanta, Georgia, and frequently credited as Frank L. Stanton, Frank Stanton or F. L...
  
   m. Carrie Jacobs-Bond
  Carrie Jacobs-Bond
  Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter who composed some 175 pieces of popular sheet music from the 1890s through the early 1940s....
  
  
• "The Maiden With The Dreamy Eyes" w. James Weldon Johnson
  James Weldon Johnson
  James Weldon Johnson was an American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. Johnson is remembered best for his leadership within the NAACP, as well as for his writing, which includes novels, poems, and...
  
   & Bob Cole
  Bob Cole (composer)
  Robert Allen "Bob" Cole was an American composer, actor, playwright, and stage producer and director.In collaboration with Billy Johnson, he wrote and produced A Trip to Coontown , the first musical entirely created and owned by black showmen. The popular song La Hoola Boola was also a result of...
  
   m. J. Rosamond Johnson
  J. Rosamond Johnson
  John Rosamond Johnson , most often referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson, was an American composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson is most notable as the composer of Lift Every Voice and Sing which has come to be known in the United States as the "Black National Anthem"...
  
  
• "Mamie, Don't You Feel Ashamie" w. Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb was an American lyricist and composer. He had a writing partnership with Ren Shields that produced many popular musicals and musical comedies.Productions and input of Will D. Cobb...
  
   m. Gus Edwards
  Gus Edwards (songwriter)
  Gus Edwards was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher.-Early life:...
  
  
• "Mighty Lak' A Rose
  Mighty Lak' a Rose
  Mighty Lak' a Rose is a 1901 song with lyrics by Frank Lebby Stanton and music by Ethelbert Nevin.The lyrics are written in an approximation of an African American accent; such "dialect songs" were common in the era. The title thus means "Mighty like a rose"; this assessment is addressed by a...
  
  " w. Frank Lebby Stanton
  Frank Lebby Stanton
  Frank Lebby Stanton—born February 22, 1857 in Charleston, South Carolina, died January 7, 1927 in Atlanta, Georgia, and frequently credited as Frank L. Stanton, Frank Stanton or F. L...
  
   m. Ethelbert Nevin
• "My Castle On The Nile" w. Bob Cole
  Bob Cole (composer)
  Robert Allen "Bob" Cole was an American composer, actor, playwright, and stage producer and director.In collaboration with Billy Johnson, he wrote and produced A Trip to Coontown , the first musical entirely created and owned by black showmen. The popular song La Hoola Boola was also a result of...
  
   & James Weldon Johnson
  James Weldon Johnson
  James Weldon Johnson was an American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. Johnson is remembered best for his leadership within the NAACP, as well as for his writing, which includes novels, poems, and...
  
   m. J. Rosamond Johnson
  J. Rosamond Johnson
  John Rosamond Johnson , most often referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson, was an American composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson is most notable as the composer of Lift Every Voice and Sing which has come to be known in the United States as the "Black National Anthem"...
  
  
• "My Japanese Cherry Blossom" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg
• "My Lady Hottentot" w. William Jerome m. Harry von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "My Lonesome Little Louisiana Lady" w. Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb was an American lyricist and composer. He had a writing partnership with Ren Shields that produced many popular musicals and musical comedies.Productions and input of Will D. Cobb...
  
   m. Gus Edwards
  Gus Edwards (songwriter)
  Gus Edwards was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher.-Early life:...
  
  
• "My Own United States" w. Stanislaus Stange m. Julian Edwards
• "My Princess Zulu Lulu" w.m. Dave Reed Jr
• "Nancy Brown" w.m. Clifton Crawford
• "O Dry Those Tears!" w.m. Teresa del Riego
• "Oh! Oh! Miss Phoebe" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer
  Harry Von Tilzer was a very popular United States songwriter.-Biography:Von Tilzer was born in Goshen, Indiana under the name Aaron Gumbinsky which he shortened to Harry Gumm. He ran away and joined a traveling circus at age 14, where he took his new name by adding 'Von' to his mother's maiden...
  
  
• "Panamericana" m. Victor Herbert
  Victor Herbert
  Victor August Herbert was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he is best known for composing many successful operettas that premiered on Broadway from the 1890s to World War I...
  
  
• "The Phrenologist Coon" w. Ernest Hogan m. Will Accooee
• "A Picture Without A Frame" w.m. Al Wilbur & Harry Jonnes
• "Rusty Rags" Ossman
• "Sally's Sunday Hat" w. Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb was an American lyricist and composer. He had a writing partnership with Ren Shields that produced many popular musicals and musical comedies.Productions and input of Will D. Cobb...
  
   m. Gus Edwards
  Gus Edwards (songwriter)
  Gus Edwards was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher.-Early life:...
  
  
• "Serenade" w. Jerry Gray & Herb Hendler m. Riccardo Drigo
• Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose Carrie Jacobs-Bond
  Carrie Jacobs-Bond
  Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond was an American singer, pianist, and songwriter who composed some 175 pieces of popular sheet music from the 1890s through the early 1940s....
  
  
• "She's Getting More Like The White Folks Every Day" w.m. Bert Williams
  Bert Williams
  Egbert Austin "Bert" Williams was one of the preeminent entertainers of the Vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. He was by far the best-selling black recording artist before 1920...
  
   & George Walker
  George Walker (vaudeville)
  George Walker was an African American vaudevillian. In 1893, in San Francisco, Walker met Bert Williams, who became his performing partner. Walker and Williams appeared in The Gold Bug , Clorindy , The Policy Player , Sons of Ham , In Dahomey , Abyssinia , and Bandanna Land...
  
  
• "A Signal from Mars" by E. T. Paull
  E. T. Paull
  Edward Taylor Paull was a minor American composer, arranger, and sheet music publisher.-Musical Style:He had some success with a few titles which enabled him to set up his own self-publishing company...
  
  
• "Simple Little Sister Mary Green" w.m. Clifton Crawford
• "Somehow It Made Him Think Of Home" w. Frederic Ranken m. Isidore Witmark
• "Sunflower Slow Drag" m. Scott Joplin
  Scott Joplin
  Scott Joplin was an American composer and pianist. Joplin achieved fame for his ragtime compositions, and was later dubbed "The King of Ragtime". During his brief career, Joplin wrote 44 original ragtime pieces, one ragtime ballet, and two operas...
  
   & Scott Hayden

• "Sweet Annie Moore" by John H. Flynn
• "Tact" w.m. Leslie Stuart
  Leslie Stuart
  Leslie Stuart was an English composer of early musical theatre, best known for the hit show Florodora and many popular songs. Stuart began writing songs in the late 1870s, including songs for blackface performers, such as "Lily of Laguna"; songs for musical theatre; and ballads such as "Soldiers...
  
  
• "The Tale Of A Bumble Bee" w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders
• "Tell Me Dusky Maiden" w. James Weldon Johnson
  James Weldon Johnson
  James Weldon Johnson was an American author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, and early civil rights activist. Johnson is remembered best for his leadership within the NAACP, as well as for his writing, which includes novels, poems, and...
  
   & Bob Cole
  Bob Cole (composer)
  Robert Allen "Bob" Cole was an American composer, actor, playwright, and stage producer and director.In collaboration with Billy Johnson, he wrote and produced A Trip to Coontown , the first musical entirely created and owned by black showmen. The popular song La Hoola Boola was also a result of...
  
   m. J. Rosamond Johnson
  J. Rosamond Johnson
  John Rosamond Johnson , most often referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson, was an American composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson is most notable as the composer of Lift Every Voice and Sing which has come to be known in the United States as the "Black National Anthem"...
  
  
• "Tell Us Pretty Ladies" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg
• "There's No North Or South Today" w.m. Paul Dresser
  Paul Dresser
  Johann Paul Dresser, Jr. was a popular American songwriter of the late 19th century and early 20th century. As a child and adolescent he was frequently in trouble and spent several months in jail before joining a band of traveling minstrels...
  
  
• "Tobermory" w.m. Harry Lauder
  Harry Lauder
  Sir Henry Lauder , known professionally as Harry Lauder, was an international Scottish entertainer, described by Sir Winston Churchill as "Scotland's greatest ever ambassador!"-Early life:...
  
  
• "Way Down In Indiana" w.m. Paul Dresser
  Paul Dresser
  Johann Paul Dresser, Jr. was a popular American songwriter of the late 19th century and early 20th century. As a child and adolescent he was frequently in trouble and spent several months in jail before joining a band of traveling minstrels...
  
  
• "Way Down Yonder In The Cornfield" w. Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb
  Will D. Cobb was an American lyricist and composer. He had a writing partnership with Ren Shields that produced many popular musicals and musical comedies.Productions and input of Will D. Cobb...
  
   m. Gus Edwards
  Gus Edwards (songwriter)
  Gus Edwards was an American songwriter and vaudevillian. He also organised his own theatre companies and was a music publisher.-Early life:...
  
  
• "We Shall Overcome" w. C. Albert Tindley Music 1794 "O Sanctissima".
• "The Wedding Of Reuben And The Maid" w. Harry B. Smith m. Maurice Levi
• "When It's All Goin' Out And Nothin' Comin' In" w.m. Bert Williams
  Bert Williams
  Egbert Austin "Bert" Williams was one of the preeminent entertainers of the Vaudeville era and one of the most popular comedians for all audiences of his time. He was by far the best-selling black recording artist before 1920...
  
   & George Walker
  George Walker (vaudeville)
  George Walker was an African American vaudevillian. In 1893, in San Francisco, Walker met Bert Williams, who became his performing partner. Walker and Williams appeared in The Gold Bug , Clorindy , The Policy Player , Sons of Ham , In Dahomey , Abyssinia , and Bandanna Land...
  
  
• "When Mr Shakespeare Comes To Town" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz
  Jean Schwartz was a songwriter.Schwartz was born in Budapest, Hungary. His family moved to New York City when he was 13 years old...
  
  
• "When The Boys Go Marching By" w.m. Charles W. Doty
• "When Two Little Hearts Are One" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg
• "Where The Silv'ry Colorado Wends Its Way" w. C. H. Scoggins m. Charles Avril
• "Zamona" w. Frederic Ranken m. William Loraine

Recorded popular music

• "A German Minstrel"
  – George P. Watson on Edison Records
  Edison Records
  Edison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered recorded sound and was an important player in the early recording industry.- Early phonographs before commercial mass produced records :...
  
  
• "Good Evening Carrie"
  – Dan W. Quinn
  Dan W. Quinn
  Dan W. Quinn was one of the first American singers to become popular in the new medium of recorded music. Quinn was a very successful recording artist whose recording career spanned 1892 to 1918. Quinn recorded many of his hits in the legendary "Tin Pan Alley" of New York City.-Biography:Dan W....
  
  
• "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree"
  – William Baird
  William Baird
  William Baird may refer to:* William Baird , Conservative MP for Falkirk Burghs* William Alexander Baird , Ontario lawyer and politician* William Teel Baird , New Brunswick historian...
  
  
• "Just As the Sun Went Down"
  – J.J. Fisher on Consolidated Phonograph

Classical music

• Hakon Børresen – String Sextet opus 5 in G major
  G major
  G major is a major scale based on G, with the pitches G, A, B, C, D, E, and F. Its key signature has one sharp, F; in treble-clef key signatures, the sharp-symbol for F is usually placed on the first line from the top, though in some Baroque music it is placed on the first space from the bottom...
  
  
• Frank Bridge
  Frank Bridge
  Frank Bridge was an English composer and violist.-Life:Bridge was born in Brighton and studied at the Royal College of Music in London from 1899 to 1903 under Charles Villiers Stanford and others...
  
   – Scherzo Phantastick, String Quintet in E minor
  E minor
  E minor is a minor scale based on the note E. The E natural minor scale consists of the pitches E, F, G, A, B, C, and D. The E harmonic minor scale contains the natural 7, D, rather than the flatted 7, D – to align with the major dominant chord, B7 .Its key signature has one sharp, F .Its...
  
   (probably), Berceuse for viola or cello and piano (http://www.netreach.net/~druid/FB/cat1.htm)
• André Caplet
  André Caplet
  André Caplet was a French composer and conductor now known primarily through his orchestrations of works by Claude Debussy.-Biography:...
  
   – Myrrha (cantata)
• Felix Draeseke
  Felix Draeseke
  Felix August Bernhard Draeseke was a composer of the "New German School" admiring Liszt and Richard Wagner. He wrote compositions in most forms including eight operas and stage works, four symphonies, and much vocal and chamber music.-Life:Felix Draeseke was born in the Franconian ducal town of...
  
   – String Quintet opus 77 in F major
  F major
  F major is a musical major scale based on F, consisting of the pitches F, G, A, B, C, D, and E. Its key signature has one flat . It is by far the oldest key signature with an accidental, predating the others by hundreds of years...
  
   for two violins, viola and two cellos
• George Enescu
  George Enescu
  George Enescu was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Enescu was born in the village of Liveni , Dorohoi County at the time, today Botoşani County. He showed musical talent from early in his childhood. A child prodigy, Enescu created his first musical...
  
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  • Romanian Rhapsody
    Romanian Rhapsodies (Enescu)
    The two Romanian Rhapsodies, Op. 11, for orchestra, are George Enescu's best-known compositions. They were both written in 1901, and first performed together in 1903. The two rhapsodies, and particularly the first, have long held a permanent place in the repertory of every major orchestra. They...
    
    No. 1 in A major, op. 11, no. 1
  • Romanian Rhapsody
    Romanian Rhapsodies (Enescu)
    The two Romanian Rhapsodies, Op. 11, for orchestra, are George Enescu's best-known compositions. They were both written in 1901, and first performed together in 1903. The two rhapsodies, and particularly the first, have long held a permanent place in the repertory of every major orchestra. They...
    
    No. 2 in D major, op. 11, no. 2
  • Symphonie concertante for cello and orchestra in B minor, op. 8
• Alexander Glazunov
  Alexander Glazunov
  Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...
  
   – Piano Sonatas 1 and 2 opus 74 and 75 in B-flat minor and E minor
• Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
  
   – Der Tambourg'sell
• Ottorino Respighi
  Ottorino Respighi
  Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral "Roman trilogy": Fountains of Rome ; Pines of Rome ; and Roman Festivals...
  
   – String Quintet for two violins, two violas and cello
• Sergei Taneyev
  Sergei Taneyev
  Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev , was a Russian composer, pianist, teacher of composition, music theorist and author.-Life:...
  
   – String Quintet opus 14 in G major for two violins, viola and two cellos
• Ludwig Thuille
  Ludwig Thuille
  Ludwig Thuille was a German composer and teacher, numbered for a while among the leading operatic composers of the 'Munich School', whose most famous representative was Richard Strauss.-Biography:...
  
   – Piano Quintet opus 20 in E-flat major

Opera

• Frederick Delius
  Frederick Delius
  Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, CH was an English composer. Born in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family of German extraction, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce...
  
   – A Village Romeo and Juliet
• Antonín Dvořák
  Antonín Dvorák
  Antonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
  
   – Rusalka
  Rusalka (opera)
  Rusalka is an opera by Antonín Dvořák. The Czech libretto was written by the poet Jaroslav Kvapil based on the fairy tales of Karel Jaromír Erben and Božena Němcová. Rusalka is one of the most successful Czech operas, and represents a cornerstone of the repertoire of Czech opera houses...
  
  
• Enrique Granados
  Enrique Granados
  Enrique Granados y Campiña was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, representative of musical nationalism...
  
   – Picarol
• Jules Massenet
  Jules Massenet
  Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet was a French composer best known for his operas. His compositions were very popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he ranks as one of the greatest melodists of his era. Soon after his death, Massenet's style went out of fashion, and many of his operas...
  
   – Grisélidis
• Charles Villiers Stanford
  Charles Villiers Stanford
  Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer who was particularly notable for his choral music. He was professor at the Royal College of Music and University of Cambridge.- Life :...
  
   – Much Ado About Nothing
• Richard Strauss
  Richard Strauss
  Richard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
  
   – Feuersnot

Musical theater

• Blue Bell In Fairyland London
  West End theatre
  West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
  
   production
• A Chinese Honeymoon
  A Chinese Honeymoon
  A Chinese Honeymoon is a musical comedy in two acts by George Dance, with music by Howard Talbot and additional music by Ivan Caryll and others, and additional lyrics by Harry Greenbank and others...
  
  London production opened at the Strand Theatre
  Royal Strand Theatre
  The Royal Strand Theatre was located in Strand in the City of Westminster. The theatre was built on the site of a panorama in 1832, and in 1882 was rebuilt by the prolific theatre architect Charles J. Phipps...
  
   on October 5 and ran for 1075 performances.
• The Emerald Isle
  The Emerald Isle
  The Emerald Isle; or, The Caves of Carrig-Cleena, is a two-act comic opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and Edward German, and a libretto by Basil Hood. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 27 April 1901, closing on 9 November 1901 after a run of 205 performances...
  
  London production opened at the Savoy Theatre
  Savoy Theatre
  The Savoy Theatre is a West End theatre located in the Strand in the City of Westminster, London, England. The theatre opened on 10 October 1881 and was built by Richard D'Oyly Carte on the site of the old Savoy Palace as a showcase for the popular series of comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan,...
  
   on April 27 and ran for 205 performances.
• The Fortune Teller
  The Fortune Teller (operetta)
  The Fortune Teller is an operetta in three acts written by Victor Herbert, with a libretto by Harry B. Smith. After a brief tryout in Toronto, it premiered on Broadway on September 26, 1898 at Wallack's Theatre and ran for 40 performances...
  
  London production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre
  Shaftesbury Theatre
  The Shaftesbury Theatre is a West End Theatre, located on Shaftesbury Avenue, in the London Borough of Camden.-History:The theatre was designed for the brothers Walter and Frederick Melville by Bertie Crewe and opened on 26 December 1911 with a production of The Three Musketeers, as the New...
  
   on April 7.
• Hoity-Toity Broadway revue
  Revue
  A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century American popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932...
  
   opened at the Weber and Fields Music Hall on September 5 and ran for 225 performances.
• Kitty Grey London production opened at the Apollo Theatre
  Apollo Theatre
  The Apollo Theatre is a Grade II listed West End theatre, on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. Designed by architect Lewin Sharp for owner Henry Lowenfield, and the fourth legitimate theatre to be constructed on the street, its doors opened on 21 February 1901 with the American...
  
   on September 7 and ran for 220 performances.
• The Little Duchess Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on October 14 and ran for 136 performances.
• The Rogers Brothers In Washington Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre
  Knickerbocker Theatre (Broadway)
  The Knickerbocker Theatre — previously known as Abbey's Theatre and Henry Abbey's Theatre — was a Broadway theatre located at 1396 Broadway in New York City. It operated from 1893 to 1930...
  
   on September 2 and ran for 49 performances
• The Silver Slipper London production opened at the Lyric Theatre
  Lyric Theatre (London)
  The Lyric Theatre is a West End theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster.Designed by architect C. J. Phipps, it was built by producer Henry Leslie with profits from the Alfred Cellier and B. C. Stephenson hit, Dorothy, which he transferred from the Prince of Wales Theatre to open...
  
   on June 1 and ran for 197 performances
• The Supper Club Broadway production opened on December 23 at the Winter Garden Theatre
  Winter Garden Theatre
  The Winter Garden Theatre is a Broadway theatre located at 1634 Broadway in midtown Manhattan.-History:The structure was built by William Kissam Vanderbilt in 1896 to be the American Horse Exchange....
  
   and ran for 40 performances.
• The Toreador
  The Toreador
  The Toreador is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts by James T. Tanner and Harry Nicholls, with lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank and music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton. It opened at the Gaiety Theatre in London, managed by George Edwardes, on 17 June 1901 and ran for an...
  
  London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre
  Gaiety Theatre, London
  The Gaiety Theatre, London was a West End theatre in London, located on Aldwych at the eastern end of the Strand. The theatre was established as the Strand Musick Hall , in 1864 on the former site of the Lyceum Theatre. It was rebuilt several times, but closed from the beginning of World War II...
  
   on June 17

Births

• January 22 – Hans Erich Apostel
  Hans Erich Apostel
  Hans Erich Apostel was a German-born Austrian composer of classical music....
  
  , composer (d. 1972)
• February 2 – Jascha Heifetz
  Jascha Heifetz
  Jascha Heifetz was a violinist, born in Vilnius, then Russian Empire, now Lithuania. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.- Early life :...
  
  , violinist (d. 1987)
• February 9 - Sebastian Kunjukunju Bhagavathar
  Sebastian Kunjukunju Bhagavathar
  Sebastian Kunjukunju Bhagavathar was a Malayalam theatre actor, singer, and author. He is known for his contributions to Malayalam sangeetha natakam...
  
  , Malayalam actor, singer, and author (d. 1985)
• February 15 – Kokomo Arnold
  Kokomo Arnold
  Kokomo Arnold was an American blues musician.Born as James Arnold in Lovejoy's Station, Georgia, he got his nickname in 1934 after releasing "Old Original Kokomo Blues" for the Decca label; it was a cover of the Scrapper Blackwell blues song about the city of Kokomo, Indiana...
  
  , blues musician (d. 1968)
• March 21 – Nikolaos Skalkottas
  Nikolaos Skalkottas
  Nikos Skalkottas was one of the most important Greek composers of 20th-century music. A member of the Second Viennese School, he drew his influences from both the classical repertoire and the Greek tradition....
  
  , Greek
  Greece
  Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
  
   composer (d. 1949)
• March 27 - Enrique Santos Discépolo
  Enrique Santos Discépolo
  Enrique Santos Discépolo was an Argentine tango and milonga musician and composer, author of famous tangos such as Cambalache and many others performed by several of the most important singers of his time, amongst them notably Carlos Gardel.Discépolo was born in Buenos Aires...
  
  , Argentinian tango musician, composer and writer (d. 1951)
• May 12 – Scrappy Lambert
  Scrappy Lambert
  Harold "Scrappy" Lambert was an American dance band vocalist who appeared on hundreds of recordings from the 1920s to the 1940s....
  
  , US singer (d. 1987)
• May 17 – Werner Egk
  Werner Egk
  Werner Egk , born Werner Joseph Mayer, was a German composer.-Early career:He was born in the Swabian town of Auchsesheim, today part of Donauwörth, Germany. His family, of Catholic peasant stock, moved to Augsburg when Egk was six. He studied at a Benedictine Gymnasium and entered the municipal...
  
  , composer (d. 1983)
• May 21 – Horace Heidt
  Horace Heidt
  Horace Heidt was an American pianist, big band leader, and radio and television personality. His band, Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights, toured vaudeville and performed on radio and television through the 1930s and 1940s.-Biography:Born in Alameda, California, Heidt attended Culver...
  
  , US bandleader (d. 1986)
• May 23 – Edmund Rubbra
  Edmund Rubbra
  Edmund Rubbra was a British composer. He composed both instrumental and vocal works for soloists, chamber groups and full choruses and orchestras. He was greatly esteemed by fellow musicians and was at the peak of his fame in the mid-20th century. The most famous of his pieces are his eleven...
  
  , composer (d. 1986)
• May 30 – Frankie Trumbauer
  Frankie Trumbauer
  Orie Frank Trumbauer was one of the leading jazz saxophonists of the 1920s and 1930s. He played the C-melody saxophone which, in size, is between an alto and tenor saxophone...
  
  , US saxophonist, bandleader and singer (d. 1956)
• June 6 – Véra Korène
  Véra Korène
  Véra Korène , was a Russian-born French actress and singer.Born Rébecca Véra Korestzky in Russia of Jewish heritage, she fled the Revolution and settled in Paris, France....
  
  , actress and singer (d. 1996)
• June 10 – Frederick Loewe, composer of musicals (d. 1988)
• June 24 – Harry Partch
  Harry Partch
  Harry Partch was an American composer and instrument creator. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with microtonal scales, writing much of his music for custom-made instruments that he built himself, tuned in 11-limit just intonation.-Early...
  
  , composer (d. 1974)
• June 29 – Nelson Eddy
  Nelson Eddy
  Nelson Ackerman Eddy was an American singer and actor who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. A classically trained baritone, he is best remembered for the eight films in which he costarred...
  
  , US singer and actor (d. 1967)
• July 3 – Ruth Crawford-Seeger, composer (d. 1953)
• July 28 – Rudy Vallée
  Rudy Vallée
  Rudy Vallée was an American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer.-Early life:Born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont, the son of Charles Alphonse and Catherine Lynch Vallée...
  
  , singer & bandleader (d. 1986)
• August 4 – Louis Armstrong
  Louis Armstrong
  Louis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....
  
  , jazz trumpeter, composer, bandleader, singer (d. 1971)
• September 2 – Phil Napoleon
  Phil Napoleon
  Phil Napoleon , born Filippo Napoli, was an early jazz trumpeter and bandleader born in Boston, Massachusetts...
  
  , jazz trumpeter (d. 1990)
• September 9 – James Blades
  James Blades
  James "Jimmy" Blades OBE was an English percussionist.He was one of the most distinguished percussionists in Western music, with long and varied career. His book Percussion Instruments and their History is a standard reference work on the subject Blades was born in Peterborough, England in 1901...
  
  , percussionist (d. 1999)
• September 12 – Ernst Pepping
  Ernst Pepping
  Ernst Pepping was a German composer of classical music.-Professional career:Pepping studied composition at the Berliner Hochschule für Musik with Walter Gmeindl between 1922 and 1926...
  
  , composer (d. 1981)
• September 26 – Ted Weems
  Ted Weems
  Wilfred Theodore Weems was an American bandleader and musician. Weems' work in music was recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.- Biography :...
  
  , US bandleader (d. 1963)
• October 2
  • Walther Aeschbacher
    Walther Aeschbacher
    Walther Gottlieb Aeschbacher was a Swiss conductor and composer of classical music.-References:...
    
    , Swiss conductor and composer (d. 1969)
  • Kiki
    Alice Prin
    Alice Ernestine Prin , nicknamed Queen of Montparnasse, and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was a French artist model, nightclub singer, actress, memoirist, and painter. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated, early 1920s culture of Paris.- Early life :Alice Prin was born in...
    
    , entertainer (d. 1953)
• October 7 – Ralph Rainger
  Ralph Rainger
  Ralph Rainger was an American composer of popular music principally for films.-Biography:Born Ralph Reichenthal in New York City, Rainger embarked on a legal career before escaping to Broadway where he became Clifton Webb's accompanist...
  
  , US composer and pianist (d. 1942)
• October 8 – Eivind Groven
  Eivind Groven
  Eivind Groven was a Norwegian microtonal composer and music-theorist. He was from Telemark and had his background in the folk music of the area.- Biography :...
  
  , composer (d. 1977)
• October 18 – Annette Hanshaw
  Annette Hanshaw
  Catherine Annette Hanshaw was born at her parents' residence in New York City on October 18, 1901. [Ed. While Annette sometimes gave her birth date as 1910, nephew Frank W. Hanshaw III confirms 1901 as the date on Annette's birth certificate.]-Biography:...
  
  , US singer (d. 1985)
• October 20 – Frank Churchill
  Frank Churchill
  Frank Churchill was an American composer of popular music for films. He wrote most of the music for Disney's 1937 movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, including "Whistle While You Work" and "Some Day My Prince Will Come"...
  
  , US composer (d. 1942)
• November 21 - Giacomo Vaghi
  Giacomo Vaghi
  Giacomo Vaghi was an Italian opera singer who had an active international career from 1925-1956. Along with Tancredi Pasero and Ezio Pinza, he was one of the leading operatic basses of his generation. He possessed a rich voice with a dark timbre that drew him particular acclaim in the operas of...
  
  , Italian opera singer (d. 1978)
• November 22 – Joaquin Rodrigo
  Joaquín Rodrigo
  Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez , commonly known as Joaquín Rodrigo, was a composer of classical music and a virtuoso pianist. Despite being nearly blind from an early age, he achieved great success...
  
  , Spanish composer (d. 1999)
• December 22 – André Kostelanetz
  Andre Kostelanetz
  André Kostelanetz was a popular orchestral music conductor and arranger, one of the pioneers of easy listening music.-Biography:...
  
  , conductor and arranger (d. 1980)

Deaths

• January 11 – Vasily Kalinnikov
  Vasily Kalinnikov
  Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov was a Russian composer of two symphonies, several additional orchestral works and numerous songs, all of them imbued with characteristics of folksong...
  
  , composer (b. 1866)
• January 27 – Giuseppe Verdi
  Giuseppe Verdi
  Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
  
  , composer (b. 1813)
• February 17 – Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin
  Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin
  Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin was an American pianist and composer.-Biography:Nevin was born in 1862, at Vineacre, on the banks of the Ohio River, in Edgeworth, Pennsylvania. There he spent the first sixteen years of his life, and received all his schooling, most of it from his father, Robert P...
  
  , pianist and composer (b. 1862)
• March 19 – Philippe Gille
  Philippe Gille
  Philippe Gille was a French dramatist and opera librettist. He wrote over twenty librettos between 1857 and 1893, the most famous of which are Massenet's Manon and Delibes' Lakmé.-Librettos by Philippe Gille:...
  
  , librettist (b. 1831)
• April 3 – Richard D'Oyly Carte
  Richard D'Oyly Carte
  Richard D'Oyly Carte was an English talent agent, theatrical impresario, composer and hotelier during the latter half of the Victorian era...
  
  , producer of Gilbert & Sullivan (b. 1844)
• April 14 – Alice Barnett
  Alice Barnett
  Alice Barnett was an English singer and actress, best known for her performances in contralto roles of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company....
  
  , singer and actress (b. 1846)
• May 2 – Franz Rummel
  Franz Rummel
  Franz Rummel was a German pianist, born in England and active across continental Europe.Rummel was born in London into a prominent German musical family, the son of pianist Joseph Rummel and grandson of composer and conductor Christian Rummel. He studied under Louis Brassin at the Brussels...
  
  , pianist (b. 1853)
• May 9 – Gottfried von Preyer
  Gottfried von Preyer
  Gottfried von Preyer was an Austrian composer, conductor and teacher.Preyer studied with Simon Sechter from 1828 to 1834. He became professor of harmony and composition at the Vienna Conservatory in 1839, and from 1844 to 1849 he was director of the conservatory. He was also Vizehofkapellmeister...
  
  , conductor, composer and music teacher (b. 1807)
• May 20 - Betty Fibichová
  Betty Fibichová
  Betty Fibichová was a Czechoslovak opera singer and the wife of composer Zdeněk Fibich. The greatest Czech operatic contralto of her day, she enjoyed close artistic partnerships with both Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana in addition to collaborating frequently with her husband.-Biography:Born...
  
   operatic contralto (b. 1846)
• June 17 – Cornelius Gurlitt, composer (b. 1820)
• June 23 – Charles Kensington Salaman
  Charles Kensington Salaman
  Charles Kensington Salaman was a British pianist and composer.Salaman was born and died in London. His music teachers included Charles Neate and William Crotch, and he became a member of the Royal Academy of Music at the age of ten. He studied in Paris under Henri Herz, and returned to London in...
  
  , composer (b. 1814)
• July 18 – Carlo Alfredo Piatti
  Carlo Alfredo Piatti
  Carlo Alfredo Piatti was an Italian cellist. He was born at via Borgo Canale, in Bergamo and died in Mozzo, 4 miles from Bergamo....
  
  , cellist (b. 1822)
• August 17 – Edmond Audran
  Edmond Audran
  Achille Edmond Audran was a French composer best known for several internationally successful operettas, including Les noces d'Olivette , La mascotte , Gillette de Narbonne , La cigale et la fourmi , Miss Helyett , and La poupée .After Audran's initial success in Paris, his works also became a...
  
  , composer (b. 1842)
• August 24 – Gunnar Wennerberg
  Gunnar Wennerberg
  Gunnar Wennerberg , Swedish poet, composer and politician. His niece Sara Wennerberg-Reuter was also a well-known musician; she was an organist and composer....
  
  , poet, politician and composer (b. 1817)
• September 3 – Friedrich Chrysander
  Friedrich Chrysander
  Karl Franz Friedrich Chrysander was a German music historian and critic, whose edition of the works of George Frideric Handel and authoritative writings on many other composers established him as a pioneer of 19th-century musicology.Born at Lübtheen, in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Chrysander was the son...
  
  , music historian and critic (b. 1826)
• September 29 - Adelaide Borghi-Mamo
  Adelaide Borghi-Mamo
  Adelaide Borghi-Mamo was an Italian operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active international career from the 1840s through the 1880s...
  
  , mezzo-soprano (b. 1826)
• October 22 – Frederic Archer
  Frederic Archer
  Frederic Archer was a British, composer, conductor and organist, born at Oxford, England. He studied music in London and Leipzig, and held musical positions in England and Scotland until 1880, when he was became organist of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York...
  
  , organist, conductor and composer (b. 1838)
• November 25 – Josef Rheinberger
  Josef Rheinberger
  Josef Gabriel Rheinberger was a German organist and composer, born in Liechtenstein.-Short biography:...
  
  , Liechtensteinian organist and composer (b. 1839)
• December 15 – Elias Álvares Lobo
  Elias Álvares Lobo
  Elias Álvares Lobo was a Brazilian composer.Lobo was born at Itu. He wrote the first Brazilian opera in the Portuguese language, A Noite de São João . -References:...
  
  , composer (b. 1834)