Editing 1903 in music (section)

==Deaths==
*[[January 28]]
**<!--January 28-->[[Augusta Holmès]], French composer, 55<ref>Rollo Myers: "Augusta Holmès: A Meteoric Career", in: ''The Musical Quarterly'' 53 (1967) 3, pp.&nbsp;365–76</ref>
**<!--January 28-->[[Robert Planquette]], French composer, 54<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle = Planquette, Robert|volume=21 |page=725}}</ref>
*[[January 31]] – [[Meyer Lutz]], conductor and composer, 73<ref name=DNB>Gänzl, Kurt.  [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34639 "Lutz, (Wilhelm) Meyer (1829–1903)"], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, Retrieved on 8 July 2008</ref>
*[[February 2]] – [[Marc Burty]], music teacher and composer, 75
*[[February 17]] – [[Joseph Parry]], organist and composer, 61<ref name=death2>{{cite news|url=http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3319745/3319751/41/dr%20parry|title=Death of Dr. Joseph Parry|publisher=The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard|date=20 February 1903|page=6|accessdate=31 May 2016}}</ref>
*[[February 22]] – [[Hugo Wolf]], Austrian composer, 62 (syphilis)<ref>Sams, Eric and [[Susan Youens]], 'Hugo Wolf', [[Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|Grove Music]] Online ed. L. Macy, [http://www.grovemusic.com (subscription access)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516041031/http://www.grovemusic.com/ |date=2008-05-16 }}</ref>
*[[February 23]] – [[Friedrich Grützmacher]], cellist, 70
*March – [[Eugène Cormon]], French librettist, 92
*[[March 5]] – [[Thomas Ryan (musician)|Thomas Ryan]], viola and clarinet player, 75<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | title = Ryan, Thomas | encyclopedia = [[Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians]] | editor = Theodore Baker and Alfred Remy | edition = 3rd | year = 1919 | page = 798 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=H2kNAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA798}}</ref>
*[[March 14]] – [[Ernest Legouvé]], opera librettist (born 1807)
*[[March 19]] – [[Pista Dankó]], "gypsy" bandleader and composer, 44
*[[April 1]] – [[Amelia Lehmann|Amelia Chambers Lehmann]], songwriter (born 1838)
*[[April 10]]
**[[Heinrich Bellermann]], music theorist, 71
**[[Enderby Jackson]], pioneer of the [[British brass band]], 76
*[[May 1]] – [[Luigi Arditi]], violinist, conductor and composer, 80<ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Arditi, Luigi |volume=2 |page=451}}</ref>
*[[May 9]] – [[Giuseppe Cremonini]], operatic tenor, 36<ref>{{Cite book
|title= A concise biographical dictionary of singers; from the beginning of recorded sound to the present
|author= Leo Riemens
|author-link= Leo Riemens
|year= 1969
|publisher= [[Chilton Book Co]]
}}</ref>
*[[May 15]] – [[Sibyl Sanderson]], operatic soprano, 38 (pneumonia)<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/05/17/101999030.pdf Sibyl Sanderson Dead: Singer Passes Away in Paris, New York Times, May 16, 1903.]</ref>
*June – [[Constance Bache]], pianist, composer and music teacher, 57<ref>''Who Was Who 1897-1916'' gives her date of death as June 30; the ''Musical Times'' obituary gives June 28</ref>
*[[June 29]] – [[Rentarō Taki]], Japanese pianist and composer, 23 (tuberculosis)
*[[July 27]] – [[Lina Sandell]], Swedish poet and hymn-writer 70<ref>[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/ryden/hymnstory.txt Scandinavian Hymnody] ''ccel.org''. Retrieved: 8 May 2013</ref>
*[[July 28]] – [[Rosine Stoltz]], French mezzo-soprano 88
*[[September 4]] – [[Hermann Zumpe]], conductor and composer, 53<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Zumpe, Hermann
|first=J. A.
|last=Fuller Maitland|author-link=John Alexander Fuller Maitland
|title=[[Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]
|edition=second
|volume=V
|location=New York
|publisher=Macmillan and Co.
|year=1910
|oclc=5000207
}}</ref>
*[[September 28]] – [[Samuel A. Ward]], organist and composer, 55
*[[November 28]] – [[Jules Levy (musician)]], Cornetist and composer, 65
*[[December 12]] – [[Christian Johansson]], ballet dancer and teacher, 86
*[[December 20]] – [[Kornél Ábrányi]], pianist and composer, 81