Events in the year 1891 in music.
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- Robin Hood, Broadway production
- The Tyrolean, Broadway production
- Der Vogelhändler (The Tyrolean), Vienna production
- January 25 – Wellman Braud, jazz musician (died 1966)
- February 5 – Dino Borgioli, operatic tenor (died 1960)
- March 22 – Alexis Roland-Manuel, French composer and critic (died 1966)
- March 28 – Leah Frances Russell, Australian opera singer (died 1983)
- April 2 – Jack Buchanan, Scottish singer, actor, dancer and director (died 1957)
- April 15 – Väinö Raitio, Finnish composer (died 1945)
- April 23 – Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer (died 1953)
- May 16 – Richard Tauber, Austrian singer (died 1948)
- May 26 – Mamie Smith, blues singer (died 1946)
- May 30 – Ben Bernie, US bandleader (died 1943)
- June 3 – Georges Guibourg, French singer, actor and writer (died 1970)
- June 9 – Cole Porter, songwriter (died 1964)
- June 10 – Al Dubin, Swiss-born American lyricist (died 1945)
- June 21 – Hermann Scherchen, German conductor (died 1966)
- July 14 – Fréhel, French singer and actress (died 1951)
- July 16 – Blossom Seeley, US singer and vaudeville performer (died 1974)
- August 2 – Arthur Bliss, composer (died 1975)
- September 11 – Noël Gallon, French composer and music educator (died 1966)
- September 14 – Czesław Marek, Polish composer, pianist, and piano teacher (died 1985)
- September 16 – Milton Schwarzwald, American film director and composer (died 1950)
- September 26 – Charles Munch, Alsatian symphonic conductor and violinist (died 1968)
- October 1 – Morfydd Llwyn Owen, Welsh singer and composer (died 1918)
- October 29 – Fanny Brice, US actress, comedian and singer (died 1951)
- November 27 – Giovanni Breviario, operatic tenor (died 1982)
- date unknown
- January 5 – Emma Abbott, singer (born 1850)
- January 8 – Fredrik Pacius, composer and conductor (born 1809)
- January 17 – Johannes Verhulst, conductor and composer (born 1816)
- January 16 – Léo Delibes, composer (born 1836)
- January 21 – Calixa Lavallée, composer (born 1842)
- May 23 – Ignace Leybach, pianist, organist and composer (born 1817)
- June 14 – Count Nicolò Gabrielli, Italian opera composer (born 1814
- July 3 – Stefano Golinelli, pianist and composer (born 1818)
- July 21 – Franco Faccio, composer and conductor (born 1840)
- August 5/6 – Henry Litolff, keyboard virtuoso and composer (born 1818)
- September 2 – Ferdinand Praeger, composer, music teacher, pianist and writer (b. 1815)
- October 27
- November 9 – Frederick Mathushek, piano maker (born 1814)
- November 20 – Franz Hitz, Swiss pianist and composer (born 1828)
- December 28 – Alfred Cellier, composer (born 1844)
- date unknown