See also: 1891 in music, other events of 1892, 1893 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Events

• "After The Ball" becomes the first sheet music to sell over 1 million copies (for a single publisher in a single year)

Published popular music

• "After The Ball"     w.m. Charles K. Harris
• "The Bowery"     w. Charles H. Hoyt m. Percy Gaunt
• "Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me A Bow-Wow"     w.m. Joseph Tabrar
• "Daisy Bell" (aka "A Bicycle Built For Two")     w.m. Harry Dacre
• "Flanagan" w.m. C. W. Murphy & William Letters
• "Future Mrs. 'Awkins" by Albert Chevalier
• "The Holy City"     w. Frederick Edward Weatherly m. Stephen Adams
• "La Sultana Turkish March" m. Fred Linden
• "Liebestraum Nocturne" m. Virginia Field
• "Molly And I And The Baby"     w.m. Harry Kennedy
• "My Old Dutch"     w. Albert Chevalier m. Charles Ingle
• "My Sweetheart's The Man In The Moon"     w.m. James Thornton
• "The Sweetest Story Ever Told"     w.m. R. M. Stults
• "The Virginia Skedaddle" w.m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld

Classical music

Opera

• Ruggiero Leoncavallo - I Pagliacci
• Jules Massenet - Werther

Musical theater

• "Dorothy"     London revival
• "Maid Marian" (retitled version of "Robin Hood")     London production
• "Maid Marian" (sequel to "Robin Hood")     Broadway production

Births

• January 31 - Eddie Cantor
• April 12 - Johnny Dodds
• May 16 - Richard Tauber, Austrian singer
• May 18 - Ezio Pinza, Italian singer and actor
• May 31 - Jo Trent
• July 2 - Jack Hylton, British bandleader
• July 8 - J. Russell Robinson
• October 25 - Janszieka (Jennie) Deutsch and Roszicka (Rosie) Deutsch, Hungarian-born dancers, actresses and singers, billed as the Dolly Sisters.

Deaths

• April 22 - Édouard Victoire Antoine Lalo, composer