Editing 1900 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 22]] – [[David E. Hughes]], musician and inventor, 68
*[[January 26]] – [[Carl Leopold Sjöberg]], composer, 38
*[[February 3]] – [[Ottokar Novacek]], violinist and composer, 33 (heart condition)
*[[March 10]] – [[Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann]], composer, 94
*[[March 13]] – [[Alicia Ann Spottiswoode]], songwriter, 89
*[[March 19]] – [[Charles-Louis Hanon]], composer and piano teacher, 80
*[[April 21]] – [[Charles Beecher]], hymn-writer, 84
*[[May 13]] – [[Hermann Levi]], German conductor, 61
*[[May 20]] – [[Gustav Graben-Hoffmann]], German composer and voice teacher, 80<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |last=Langner |first=Thomas M.  |date=2001 |entry=Graben-Hoffmann [Hoffmann], Gustav (Heinrich) |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.11559}}</ref>
*[[May 28]] – [[George Grove]], compiler of the well-known dictionary of music, 79
*[[June 15]] – [[Barnolt]], French operatic tenor, 61{{sfn|Kutsch| Riemens|2003|page=256}} 
*[[July 19]] – [[Jovan Sundečić]], lyricist of the Montenegro national anthem, 75
*[[August 11]] – [[Franz Betz]], operatic bass-baritone, 65
*[[August 29]] – [[Herrman S. Saroni]], composer, 76
*[[October 9]] – [[Heinrich von Herzogenberg]], conductor and composer, 57 (necrosis of the joints)
*[[October 14]] – Sándor Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of [[Ferenc Erkel]]
*[[October 15]] – [[Zdeněk Fibich]], composer, 49
*[[November 7]] – [[Joseph Schalk]], pianist, conductor and musicologist, 43
*[[November 14]] – [[Adolf Pollitzer]], violinist, 68
*[[November 17]] – [[Heinrich Porges]], choirmaster and music critic, 62
*[[November 22]] – Sir [[Arthur Sullivan]], composer, 58 (kidney disease)
*[[December 8]] – [[Henry Russell (musician)|Henry Russell]], pianist, baritone singer and composer
*''date unknown'' – [[Louis Liebe]], conductor and composer (born 1819)