1893 in music

List of years in music (table)
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February 9 - Première of Giuseppe Verdi's final opera Falstaff in La Scala in Milan
August 14-15 - America's oldest music organization, the Stoughton Musical Society performs at the World's Columbian Exposition
December 29 - Claude Debussy's String Quartet is premièred in Paris
Song "Good Morning to All" by Mildred J. Hill and Patty Smith Hill first published in the book "Song Stories for the Kindergarten"

Selected compositions (words/music indicated by "w.m."):

Granville Bantock — Caedmar
Julius Bechgaard — Frode premiered on May 11 in Copenhagen
Engelbert Humperdinck — Hänsel und Gretel
Isidore de Lara — Amy Robsart
Emile Pessard
- Une nuit de Noël premiered at the Ambigu, Paris
- Mam'zelle Carabin premiered on November 3 at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, Paris
Giacomo Puccini — Manon Lescaut
Giuseppe Verdi — Falstaff

A Gaiety Girl London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre on October 14 and ran for 413 performances
Jane Annie London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on May 13 and ran for 50 performances
Little Christopher Columbus London production opened at the Lyric Theatre on October 10 and ran for 279 performances
Morocco Bound (music Frank Osmond Carr lyrics: Adrian Ross) London production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on April 13 and transferred to the Trafalgar Square Theatre on January 8, 1894 for a total run of 295 performances.
A Trip To Chinatown Broadway production
Utopia Limited London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on October 7 and ran for 245 performances

February 10 - Jimmie Durante, comedian and singer
February 15 - Walter Donaldson, songwriter (died 1947)
February 21 - Andrés Segovia, Spanish classical guitarist
April 2 - Sergei Protopopov, Russian composer and music theorist
April 16 - Federico Mompou, composer (died 1987)
June 26 - Big Bill Broonzy, blues singer, songwriter and guitarist (died 1958)
June 28 - Luciano Gallet, Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor
July 3 - Mississippi John Hurt, country blues singer and guitarist (died 1966)
July 28 - Rued Langgaard, Danish composer and organist
August 22 - Dorothy Parker, US writer, poet and lyricist (died 1953)
September 13 - Larry Shields, Dixieland jazz clarinetist
October 1 - Cliff Friend US composer
November 8 - Clarence Williams, US jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher

January 18 - Julius Eichberg, composer (b. 1824)
May 25 - Johann Rufinatscha, composer and music teacher (b. 1812)
June 10 - Elek Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel (b. 1843)
June 25 - Ferenc Erkel, Hungarian composer (b. 1810)
July 16 - Antonio Ghislanzoni, librettist (b. 1824)
August 7 - Alfredo Catalani, composer (b. 1854)
August 31 - Sir William Cusins, instrumentalist, conductor and composer; Master of the Queen's Music (b. 1833)
September 8 - Michel Lentz, lyricist of the national anthem of Luxembourg (b. 1820)
September 13 - Carl Ludvig Gerlach, opera singer and composer
October 16 - Carlo Pedrotti, conductor and composer (b. 1817)
October 18 - Charles Gounod, composer (b. 1818)
November 6 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer (b. 1840)
date unknown - Felix Battanchon, cellist (b. 1814)