Editing 1896 in music (section)

== Deaths ==
*[[January 28]] – Sir [[Joseph Barnby]], conductor and composer (b. 1838)
*[[February 5]] – [[Henry David Leslie]], conductor and composer (b. 1822)
*[[February 6]] – [[Julie Dorus-Gras|Juliette Dorus-Gras]], operatic soprano (born 1896)
*[[February 12]] – [[Ambroise Thomas]], composer (b. 1811)
*[[February 13]] – [[Carl Martin Reinthaler]], organist, conductor and composer (b. 1822)
*[[March 5]] – [[Hiromori Hayashi]], composer (b. 1831)
*[[April 12]] – [[Alexander Ritter]], composer and violinist (b. 1833)
*[[May 12]] – [[Juan Morel Campos]], ''danza'' composer (b. 1857)
*[[May 20]] – [[Clara Schumann]], Austrian composer (b. 1819)
*[[June 7]] – [[Pavlos Carrer]], composer (b. 1829)
*[[June 22]] – Sir [[Augustus Harris]], librettist and impresario (b. 1852)
*[[June 28]] – [[Jenny Hill (music hall performer)|Jenny Hill]], music hall performer (b. 1848; tuberculosis)<ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Laurence|last=Senelick|title=Hill, Jenny (1848–1896)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39378|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/39378 |accessdate=2012-03-26}}</ref>
*[[July 14]] – [[Luther Whiting Mason]], music educator (b. 1818)
*[[July 17]] – [[Alfred Novello]], music publisher (b. 1810)<ref>{{cite news|title=Joseph Alfred Novello Dead; Italy's Organist, Composer, and Scientist Passes Away|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=18 July 1896|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1896/07/18/archives/joseph-alfred-novello-dead-italys-organist-composer-and-scientist.html}}</ref>
*[[July 26]] – [[Théodore Salomé]], organist and composer (b. 1834)
*[[August 1]] – [[Wilhelm Herman Barth]], violinist, composer and music theorist (b. 1813)
*[[August 18]] – [[Frederick Crouch]], cellist and composer (b. 1808)
*[[September 16]] – [[Antônio Carlos Gomes]], composer (b. 1836)
*[[September 22]] – [[Katharina Klafsky]], Wagnerian soprano (b. 1855)
*[[September 23]] – [[Gilbert Duprez]], operatic tenor (b. 1806)
*[[October 11]] – [[Anton Bruckner]], Austrian composer (b. 1824)
*[[October 17]] – [[Henry Eugene Abbey]], theatre manager (b. 1846)
*[[November 25]] – [[Spyridon Xyndas]], composer (b. 1812)
*[[December 3]] – László Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of [[Ferenc Erkel]]
*[[December 13]] – [[Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski]], musicologist, conductor, and composer (b. 1822)
*[[December 17]] – [[Richard Pohl]], writer, critic and composer (b. 1826)
*[[December 24]] – [[Anders Ljungqvist]], fiddler (b. 1815)
*''date unknown''
**[[Luigia Abbadia]], operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1821)
**[[Gopalakrishna Bharati]], poet and Carnatic music composer (b. 1810)