1890s
- 1899 in music - Death of Johann Strauss II; Birth of Duke Ellington.
- 1898 in music - Birth of George Gershwin, Paul Robeson
- 1897 in music - Ragtime music becomes popular in the United States; Death of Brahms, Birth of Marian Anderson
- 1896 in music - Death of Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer and opera composer and Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer and organist
- 1895 in music - Birth of Carl Orff, Oscar Hammerstein II, George W. Johnson becomes first Afro-American recording artist with "The Laughing Song"
- 1893 in music - Death of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikowsky, Russian composer
- 1892 in music - Dan W. Quinn makes first recordings in New York City
- 1891 in music - Birth of Sergei Prokofiev, Soviet composer and pianist
- 1890 in music - John Philip Sousa makes first recordings with Columbia Phonograph Company; Birth of Bronislava Nijinska, choreographer (d.1972)
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