- Feb 14 Capel Bond, English composer and organist, dies at 59
- Feb 18 Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, German composer and violinist, dies at 67
- Feb 19 Jean-Baptiste Krumpholz [Jan Křtitel Krumpholtz], Czech-French harpist and composer, drowns himself over lost love, in the Seine River, at 47
- Feb 21 Johann Friedrich Klöffler, German composer, dies at 64