Editing 1904 in music (section)

==Deaths==
* [[January 2]] – [[Peter Jurgenson]], Russian music publisher (b.1836)
* [[January 4]] – [[Mitrofan Belyayev]], music publisher (b. 1836)
* [[January 10]] – [[Antoinette Sterling]], singer
* [[January 15]] – [[Eduard Lassen]], Danish-born composer and conductor (born [[1830 in music|1830]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Singer |first1=Isidore |author1-link=Isidore Singer |last2=Sohn |first2=Joseph |author2-link=Joseph Sohn |title=LASSEN, EDUARD |encyclopedia=[[The Jewish Encyclopedia]] |volume=7 |page=626 |year=1906 |url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/9655-lassen-eduard |access-date=20 December 2021 |via=[[JewishEncyclopedia.com]]}}</ref>
* [[January 20]] – [[Maria Louisa Bustill]], mother of [[Paul Robeson]] (b. 1853) (domestic accident)
* [[February 8]] – [[Malvina Garrigues]], soprano and composer (b. 1825)
* [[March 10]] – [[Giovanni Cesari]], ''castrato'' singer (b. 1843)
* [[March 11]] – [[Charles Grisart]], opera composer (b. 1837)
* [[March 20]] – [[Louisa Pyne]], operatic soprano and opera company manager (b. 1832)
* [[March 31]] – [[Sophia Karp]], actress and singer (b. 1861)
* [[February 8]] – [[Malvina Garrigues|Malwine Schnorr von Varolsfeld]], German soprano (b.1825)
* [[April 29]] – [[Nellie Farren]], burlesque actress and singer (b. 1848)
* [[May 1]] – [[Antonín Dvořák]], Czech composer (b. 1841)
* [[May 14]] – [[Morrison Foster]], editor and brother to [[Stephen Foster]] (born 1823)
* [[May 19]] – [[Korla Awgust Kocor]], conductor and composer (b. 1822)
* [[May 29]] – [[Maria Paulina Åhman]], Swedish harpist (born [[1812 in music|1812]])<ref>{{cite dictionary |title=Maria Paulina (Marie Pauline) Åhman |url=https://www.skbl.se/sv/artikel/PaulineAhman |dictionary=[[Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon]] |first=Ulla |last=Åshede |access-date=30 July 2022 |translator-last=Grosjean |translator-first=Alexia |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 30]] – [[Laura Joyce Bell]], contralto singer and actress (b. 1854)
* [[June 28]] – [[Dan Emmett]], founder of the [[Virginia Minstrels]] (b. 1815)
* [[July 13]] – [[Giulia Warwick]], operatic soprano and actress (b. 1857)
* [[July 20]] – [[Arthur Lloyd (musician)|Arthur Lloyd]], music hall entertainer and songwriter (b. 1839)<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Anthony Baker|title=British Music Hall: An Illustrated History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mtKwBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA25|date=31 May 2014|publisher=Pen and Sword|isbn=978-1-4738-3718-8|pages=25–}}</ref>
* [[August 6]] – [[Eduard Hanslick]], music critic (b. 1825)
* [[September 26]] – [[Lafcadio Hearn|Patrick Lafcadio Hearn]], translator (born 1850)
* [[October 31]] – [[Dan Leno]], English [[music hall]] comedian, clog dancer and singer (b. 1860)
* [[November 30]] – [[Aldine Silliman Kieffer]], music teacher and publisher (b. 1840)
* ''date unknown'' – [[Antonio Galassi]], operatic baritone (b. 1845)