Editing 1898 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 7]] – [[Heinrich Lichner]], composer, 68
*[[January 8]] – [[Alexandre Dubuque]], composer, 85
*[[January 16]] – [[Antoine François Marmontel]], pianist and teacher, 81
*[[February 15]] – [[Franz Behr]], composer (b. 1837)
*[[March 11]] – [[Tigran Chukhajian]], conductor and composer, founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire, 60
*[[March 15]] – [[Julius Schulhoff]], pianist and composer, 72
*[[March 28]] – [[Anton Seidl]], conductor, 47
*[[April 21]] – [[Théodore Gouvy]], composer, 78
*[[May 15]] – [[Ede Reményi]], violinist, 70
*[[May 16]] – [[Jean Antoine Zinnen]], composer of the Luxembourg national anthem, 71
*[[August 17]] – [[Karl Zeller]], Austrian composer, 56 (pneumonia)
*[[August 21]] – [[Niccolò van Westerhout]], composer, 40 (peritonitis)
*[[September 9]] – [[William Chatterton Dix]], hymn-writer, 61
*[[September 11]] – [[Adolphe Samuel]], Belgian composer, 74
*[[November 7]] – [[Max Alvary]], operatic tenor, 42
*[[December 13]] – [[George Frederick Bristow]], composer, 72
*[[December 29]] – [[Georg Goltermann]], cellist and composer, 74