See also:
1871 in music,
other events of 1872,
1873 in music and the
list of 'years in music'.
Events
Published popular music
- "Moonlight on the Potomac" by John Philip Sousa
- "You Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry" by Harry Linn & Rollin Howard
- "Only a Dream" by George Cooper & William Vincent Wallace
Classical music
Opera
Relevant Books
Births
- January 6 - Alexander Scriabin, composer
- January 11 - Paul Graener, composer
- January 16 - Henri-Paul Busser, composer
- March 7 - Vasily Andreyevich Zolotaryov, composer
- March 8 - Paul Juon, Russian-Swiss violinist and composer
- March 10 - Felix Borowski, composer
- March 18 - Frank Hoyt Losey, composer
- March 19 - Sergei Diaghilev, choreographer
- March 20 - Bernhard Seklas, composer
- March 30 - Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, composer
- April 1 - Tadeusz Joteyko, composer
- April 4 - Nikolai Amani, composer
- April 4 - Pauline de Haan-Manifarges, singer
- April 29 - Eyvind Alnaes, composer
- May 1 - Hugo Alfvén, composer
- July 7 - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer
- Ben Harney
- July 8 - Harry Von Tilzer
- July 18 - Julius Fucik, composer
- July 20 - Alick Maclean and Deodat de Severac, composers
- July 27 - Stanislav Binicki, composer
- August 10 - Bill Johnson
- August 15 - Harold Fraser-Simson and Rubin Goldmark, composers
- October 3 - Edward Faber Schneider, composer
- October 12 - Ralph Vaughan Williams
- November 4 - Herman Finck, composer
- November 29 - Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano
- December 10 - Johann Babtist Thaller, composer
- December 20 - Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer
Deaths
