1890 in Music - Deaths

Deaths

  • January 8 - Giorgio Ronconi, operatic baritone (b. 1810)
  • January 17 - Salomon Sulzer, cantor and composer (b. 1804)
  • January 20 - Franz Lachner, conductor and composer (b. 1803)
  • February 14 - Wilhelm Fitzenhagen, cellist and music teacher (b. 1848)
  • March 13 - Henry Wylde, conductor, composer, music teacher and critic (b. 1822)
  • April 16 - John Barnett, composer and music writer (b. 1802)
  • May 6 - Hubert Léonard, violinist (b. 1819)
  • May 28 - Viktor Nessler, composer (b. 1841)
  • June 3 - Oskar Kolberg, folklorist and composer (b. 1814)
  • June 30 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer (b. 1819)
  • October 7 - John Hill Hewitt, songwriter (b. 1801)
  • October 17 - Prosper Sainton, violinist (b. 1813)
  • October 28 - Alexander John Ellis, music theorist (b. 1814)
  • November 8 - César Franck, composer (b. 1822)
  • December 21 - Niels Gade, composer (b. 1817)
  • date unknown - Ostap Veresai, minstrel and kobzar (b. 1803)

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