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Musicians Born in 1873

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  • Jan 6 Karl Straube, German organist and conductor, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1950)
  • Jan 8 Lucien Capet, French composer and violinist, born in Paris, France (d. 1928)
  • Jan 17 Francois Rasse, Belgian composer, born in Helchin, Belgium (d. 1955)
  • Feb 1 Clara Butt, British contralto (Country of Hope & Glory; Elgar's "Sea Pictures"), born in Southwick Sussex, England (d. 1936)
  • Feb 2 Leo Fall, Austrian operetta composer (Dollar Princess), born in Olmütz, Austrian-Hungarian Empire (d. 1925)
  • Feb 11 Feodor Chaliapine, Russian operatic bass-baritone singer (Man and Mask: Forty Years in the Life of a Singer), born in Kazen, Russian Empire (d. 1938)
  • Feb 13 Fyador Chaliapin, Russian operatic bass-baritone (Boris Godunov), born in Kazan, Russia (d. 1938)
  • Feb 23 Dmitri Arakishvili, Soviet and Georgian composer, born in Vladikavkaz, Russia (d. 1953)

Enrico Caruso (1873-1921)

Feb 25 Italian operatic tenor (Faust), born in Naples, Kingdom of Italy

Enrico Caruso
  • Mar 15 David Vaughan Thomas, Welsh musician and composer, born in Ystalyfera, Wales (d. 1934)
  • Mar 19 Max Reger, German concert pianist, organist, composer (Hebbel Requiem), and professor (Royal Conservatory - Leipzig, 1907-16), born in Brand, Kingdom of Bavarian, German Empire (d. 1916)

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

Mar 20 Russian-American piano virtuoso, conductor, and composer (Aleko; Piano Concerto No. 3), born in Oneg or Semyonovo, Russian Empire

Sergei Rachmaninoff
  • Apr 1 Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian-American piano virtuoso, conductor, and composer (Aleko; Piano Concerto No. 3, Vocalise), born in Oneg or Semyonovo, Russian Empire (d. 1943) [OS=Mar 20]
  • Apr 13 Theodore F. Morse, American composer, born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1924)
  • Apr 14 Viktor Josef Keldorfer, Austrian composer, born in Salzburg, Austria (d. 1959)
  • Apr 18 Jean Roger-Ducasse, French composer, born in Bordeaux, France (d. 1954)
  • Apr 28 Harold Bauer, English-American pianist (Beethoven-Association), born in Kingston, England (d. 1951)
  • May 7 Clarence Dickinson, American composer, born in Lafayette, Indiana (d. 1969)
  • May 15 Nikolay Tcherepnin, Russian composer of ballets, born in St Petersburg, Russia (d. 1945)
  • May 19 Federico Gerdes, Peruvian pianist, composer, and educator (founder and first director of the National Conservatory of Music, 1909-26), born in Tacna, Peru (d. 1953)
  • Jun 1 Ada Jane Jones, English-American popular singer, among the earliest female singers to be recorded, born in Lancashire, England (d. 1922)
  • Jun 7 Landon Ronald, British composer, pianist and teacher (Guildhall School of Music), born in Kensington, London (d. 1938)
  • Jun 16 Antonina Nezhdanova, Russian soprano (Rigoletto), born in Kryva Balka, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1950)
  • Jun 24 Thomas Carl Whitmer, American composer, born in Altoona, Pennsylvania (d. 1959)
  • Jul 19 Louis Zimmermann, Dutch violinist (1st concert master of Amsterdam Symphony), composer, and educator, born in Groningen, Netherlands (d. 1954)
  • Jul 20 Witold Maliszewski, Polish composer (founder and first director of Odessa Conservatory), born in Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1939)
  • Jul 22 Ettore Pozzoli, Italian composer and pianist, born in Seregno, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1957)
  • Aug 6 Mary Carr Moore, American composer, born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1957)
  • Aug 11 J. Rosamund Johnson, American composer ("Lift Every Voice And Sing"), born in Jacksonville, Florida (d. 1954)
  • Aug 18 Leo Slezak, Moravian dramatic tenor and actor (Othello; Zirkus Saran; Husaren heraus), born in Mährisch-Schönberg, Austria-Hungary (now Šumperk, Czech Republic) (d. 1946)
  • Aug 18 Otto Harbach [Hauerbach], American librettist, lyricist (Smoke Gets in Your Eyes), and mentor to Oscar Hammerstein II, born in New York City (d. 1963)
  • Aug 20 William Henry Bell, English composer, born in St Albans, England (d. 1946)
  • Aug 22 Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist, born in St. Gallen, Switzerland (d. 1935)
  • Sep 21 Papa Jack Laine, American musician and pioneering bandleader, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1966)
  • Sep 26 Amilcare Zanella, Italian composer and conductor, born in Monticelli d'Ongina, Italy (d. 1949)
  • Oct 6 Oscar Sonneck, American editor (The Musical Quarterly), musicologist, and librarian (Library of Congress, 1902-17), born in Jersey City, New Jersey (d. 1928)
  • Oct 9 Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist, born in Mosonmagyaróvár, Hungary (d. 1944)
  • Oct 14 José Serrano Simeón, Spanish composer, born in Sueca, Valencia, Spain (d. 1941)
  • Oct 27 Henry Tate, Australian composer and poet, born in Melbourne, Australia (d. 1926)
  • Nov 10 Henri Rabnaud, French composer (Le Premer Glaire), born in Paris, France (d. 1949)

W. C. Handy (1873-1958)

Nov 16 American composer and musician known as the "Father of the Blues" (Memphis Blues, St Louis Blues), born in Florence, Alabama

W. C. Handy
  • Nov 20 Daniel Gregory Mason, American composer (Chanticker), born in Brookline, Massachusetts (d. 1953)
  • Dec 14 Joseph Jongen, Belgian organist and composer (Symphonie concertante, Op. 81), born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1953) [1]
  • Dec 15 Kacsóh Pongrác, Hungarian composer, born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (d. 1923)
  • Dec 18 Adolf Vogl, German composer, born in Munich (d. 1961)
  • Dec 21 Blagoje Bersa, Croatian composer, born in Dubrovnik, Croatia (d. 1934)
  • Dec 26 Hubert Cuypers, Dutch organist, composer, and choir conductor (Minstrels), born in Baexem, Netherlands (d. 1960)
  • Dec 26 Karel Moor, Czech composer and conductor, born in Belgrade (d. 1945)


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