Events in the year 1883 in music.
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- January 1 – Floy Little Bartlett, American composer (d. 1956)[2]
- January 30 – Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (d. 1920)
- February 11 – Paul von Klenau, Danish-born composer (d. 1946)
- March 10 – Maria Barrientos, Spanish operatic soprano (d. 1946)
- March 15 - Ford Dabney, American composer and vaudevillian (d. 1953)
- March 16 – Ernie Hare, U.S. bass/baritone (d. 1939)
- March 19 – Josef Matthias Hauer, Austrian composer and theorist (d. 1959)
- March 21 – Jules Van Nuffel, Belgian composer and choir conductor (d. 1953)
- March 27 – Dimitrios Semsis, Greek violinist (d. 1950)
- March 28 – William Henry Harris, English organist, choral trainer and composer (d. 1973)
- April 1 – Malcolm McEachern, Australian-born concert bass singer (d. 1945)
- April 6 – Vernon Dalhart, U.S. singer
- April 13 (O.S. April 1) – Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, Russian Soviet composer
- May 4 – Nikolai Malko, Ukrainian conductor
- May 5 – Petar Konjović, composer (d. 1970)
- May 28
- July 7 – Toivo Kuula, Finnish conductor and composer
- July 25 – Alfredo Casella, composer (d. 1947)
- July 29 – Manuel Infante, pianist and composer (d. 1958)
- August 13 – Joseph C. Smith, American dance band leader (d. 1965)
- August 15 – Benjamin M. Kaye, librettist (died 1970)
- August 19 – Emilius Bangert, Danish composer and organist (d. 1962)[3]
- September 18 – Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, British composer[4]
- October 2 – Frico Kafenda, Slovak composer[5]
- October 22 – Victor Jacobi, operetta composer (d. 1921)[6]
- November 8 – Arnold Bax, English composer (d. 1953)[7]
- December 3 – Anton Webern, Austrian composer (d. 1945)[8]
- December 22 – Edgard Varèse, French(-born) composer (d. 1965)[9]
- January 24 – Friedrich von Flotow, composer (b. 1812)[10]
- February 13 – Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)[11]
- February 17 – Napoléon Coste, guitarist and composer (b. 1805)[12]
- April 10 – Emilie Mayer, composer (b. 1812)[13]
- April 26 – Napoleon Orda, pianist, composer and artist (b. 1807)
- June 6
- June 10 – Karl Graedener, cellist, singing teacher and composer (b. 1812)
- July 14 – Svend Grundtvig, Danish folk song collector (b. 1824)[14]
- July 27 – Franz Doppler, flute virtuoso and composer (b. 1821)[15]
- September 2 – Léon Halévy, librettist (born 1802)
- October 4 – Giovanni Guicciardi, Italian opera singer (b. 1819)
- October 30 – Robert Volkmann, composer (b. 1815)[16]
- December 7 – Auguste Offenbach, composer (born 1862)
- December 3 – Gustav Hölzel, operatic bass-baritone (b. 1813)[17]
- December 11 – Mario, operatic tenor (b. 1810)
- date unknown – Enrico Ceruti, violin maker (b. 1806)