Deaths
- January 22 - David E. Hughes, musician and inventor, 68
- January 26 - Carl Leopold Sjöberg, composer, 38
- February 3 - Ottokar Novacek, violinist and composer, 33 (heart condition)
- March 9 - Charles-Louis Hanon, composer and piano teacher, 80
- March 10 - Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer, 94
- March 13 - Alicia Ann Spottiswoode, songwriter, 89
- April 21 - Charles Beecher, hymn-writer, 84
- May 28 - George Grove, compiler of the well-known dictionary of music, 79
- August 11 - Franz Betz, operatic bass-baritone, 65
- October 9 - Heinrich von Herzogenberg, conductor and composer, 57 (necrosis of the joints)
- October 14 - Sándor Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
- October 15 - Zdeněk Fibich, composer, 49
- November 7 - Joseph Schalk, pianist, conductor and musicologist, 43
- November 14 - Adolf Pollitzer, violinist, 68
- November 17 - Heinrich Porges, choirmaster and music critic, 62
- November 22 - Sir Arthur Sullivan, composer, 58 (kidney disease)
- December 8 - Henry Russell, pianist, baritone singer and composer
- date unknown
- Barnolt, operatic tenor (born 1844)
- Louis Liebe, conductor and composer (born 1819)
- Jovan Sundečić, lyricist of the Montenegro national anthem (born 1825)
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