Composer events for 1893
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Birthdays
- Dom Paul Benoit ()
- Martian Negrea (29 January)
- Federico Mompou (16 April)
- Paul Amadeus Pisk (16 May)
- Eugene Goossens (26 May)
- Aloís Hába (21 June)
- Rued Immanuel Langgaard (28 July)
- Douglas Moore (10 August)
- Lili (Juliëtte Marie Olga) Boulanger (21 August)
- Arthur Benjamin (18 September)
- Páll Isólfsson (12 October)
- Jean Absil (23 October)
- Torcuato Rodriguez Castro (7 November)
Dying days
- Vincenz Lachner (22 January)
- Felipe Villanueva (28 May)
- Alfredo Catalani (7 August)
- Charles Gounod (18 October)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (6 November)
Music events
- Premiere of Manon Lascaut, in Turino, Italy. (1 February) → Giacomo Puccini
- Premiere of Falstaff, in Milan, Italy. (9 February) → Giuseppe Verdi
- Premiere of En Saga op. 9, in Helsinki, Finland, with Sibelius conducting. (16 February) → Jean Sibelius
- Premiere of Symphony no. 6 in b minor op. 74 “Pathétique”, in St. Petersburg, with Tchaikovsky conducting. (16 October) → Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Premiere of Symphony no. 9 in e minor “New World Symphony”, in New York, USA. (16 December) → Antonín Dvořák
- Premiere of Hänsel und Gretel, in Weimar, Germany, with Rihard Strauss conducting. (23 December) → Engelbert Humperdinck
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