1891 in music

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Events

February 23 - Fourteen-year-old cellist Pablo Casals gives a solo recital in Barcelona.
March 16 - A performance of the Budapest Opera is interrupted by a spontaneous demonstration in support of musical director Gustav Mahler, at the time in conflict with intendant Géza Zichy and already negotiating for a position elsewhere.
May 10 - Danish composer Carl Nielsen marries sculptor Anne Marie Brodersen in Florence, Italy.
October 16 - The Chicago Symphony Orchestra gives its inaugural concert.
The Peabody Mason Concerts are inaugurated with a performance by Ferruccio Busoni.

Frederick Delius - Irmelin
Robert Fuchs - Die Teufelsglocke
Miguel Marqués - El monaguillo (libretto by Emilio Sánchez Pastor, premiered in Madrid)
Emile Pessard - Les folies amoureuses premiered on April 15 at the Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique, Paris

January 25 - Wellman Braud, jazz musician (d. 1966)
February 5 - Dino Borgioli, operatic tenor (d. 1960)
April 2 - Jack Buchanan, Scottish singer, actor, dancer and director (d. 1957)
April 23 - Sergei Prokofiev, composer (d. 1953)
May 30 - Ben Bernie, US bandleader (d. 1943)
June 9 - Cole Porter, songwriter (d. 1964)
June 10 - Al Dubin, Swiss-born American lyricist (d. 1945)
July 14 - Fréhel, French singer, actress (d. 1951)
July 16 - Blossom Seeley, US singer and vaudeville performer (d. 1974)
August 2 - Arthur Bliss, composer (d. 1975)
October 29 - Fanny Brice, US actress, comedian and singer (d. 1951)
November 18 - Ernest Frank Pechin, US Cornetist and bandleader (d. 1946)
November 27 - Giovanni Breviario, operatic tenor (d. 1982)
date unknown
- Charles McCarron, composer and lyricist (d. 1919)
- Margaret Morris, dancer and choreographer (d. 1980)