Editing 1901 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 11]] – [[Vasily Kalinnikov]], composer (b. 1866)
*[[January 27]] – [[Giuseppe Verdi]], composer (b. 1813)
*[[February 11]] – [[Henry Willis]], organ builder (b. 1821)
*[[February 17]] – [[Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin]], pianist and composer (b. 1862)
*[[March 19]] – [[Philippe Gille]], librettist (b. 1831)
*[[March 31]] – Sir [[John Stainer]], composer and organist (b. 1840)<ref>{{cite book |last=Dibble |first=Jeremy |author-link=Jeremy Dibble |url=http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=9607 |title=John Stainer: A life in music |year=2007 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |location=Woodbridge, Suffolk |isbn=978-1-84383-297-3 |page=308 |access-date=August 23, 2021 |archive-date=October 27, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027221919/http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=9607 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[April 3]] – [[Richard D'Oyly Carte]], producer of Gilbert & Sullivan (b. 1844)
*[[April 14]] – [[Alice Barnett]], singer and actress (b. 1846)<ref>Stone, David. [https://www.gsarchive.net/whowaswho/B/BarnettAlice.htm Alice Barnett] at ''Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte'', Retrieved 14 June 2010</ref>
*[[May 2]] – [[Franz Rummel]], pianist (b. 1853)
*[[May 9]] – [[Gottfried von Preyer]], conductor, composer and music teacher (b. 1807)
*[[May 20]] – [[Betty Fibichová]] operatic contralto (b. 1846)
*[[June 14]] – [[Ralph E. Hudson]], American hymnwriter (b. 1843)
*[[June 17]] – [[Cornelius Gurlitt (composer)|Cornelius Gurlitt]], composer (b. 1820)
*[[June 23]] – [[Charles Kensington Salaman]], composer (b. 1814)<ref>Devonshire, (1901-08-01). "Charles Salaman". ''The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular'', '''42''':702. pp.&nbsp;530–533.</ref>
*[[July 18]] – [[Carlo Alfredo Piatti]], cellist (b. 1822)
*[[August 17]] – [[Edmond Audran]], composer (b. 1842)
*[[August 24]] – [[Gunnar Wennerberg]], poet, politician and composer (b. 1817)
*[[September 3]] – [[Friedrich Chrysander]], music historian and critic (b. 1826)
*[[September 29]] – [[Adelaide Borghi-Mamo]], mezzo-soprano (b. 1826)
*[[October 22]] – [[Frederic Archer]], organist, conductor and composer (b. 1838)<ref>{{cite news|title=Pittsburg Organist's Life Ended|newspaper=The Pittsburg Press|date=22 Oct 1901|page=1|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LxMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jkgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1463%2C8521}}</ref>
*[[November 25]] – [[Josef Rheinberger]], Liechtensteinian organist and composer (b. 1839)
*[[December 15]] – [[Elias Álvares Lobo]], composer (b. 1834)