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1905 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1905.

Specific locations

 * 1905 in Norwegian music

Events

 * January 6 – Première of Leoš Janáček's piano cycle On an Overgrown Path (Po zarostlém chodníčku) at the "Besední dům" Hall in Brno.
 * January 8 - Florent Schmitt's symphonic poem Le Palais hante [The Haunted Palace], based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe, is premièred at the Orchestre Lamoureux in Paris.
 * January 26 – Arnold Schoenberg's symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande is premièred in Vienna.
 * January 29 – Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder is premiered in Vienna.
 * February 2 - The Moscov paper Nashi Dni publishes an open letter signed by 29 prominent Moscov musicians, including Rachmaninoff, Chaliapin, Gliere, calling for basic reforms in Russia.
 * February 5 - Camille Saint-Saëns's Concerto No.2 in D Minor for Cello and Orchestra premieres in Paris
 * February 10 - German conductor Felix Weingartner conducts for the first time in America with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
 * February 14 - Jules Massenet's opera Cherubin premiers in Monte Carlo.
 * February 25 - Concerto for Dubble Bass and Orchestra by Serge Koussevitzky is premièred in Moscow, with the composer as soloist.
 * February 27 - The ballet My Lady Nicotine, with music by George W. Byng, is produced at the Alhambra Theatre, London.
 * March 4 - Concerto in A minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op.82, by Alexander Glazunov, receives its world première in Saint Petersburg, the composer conducting.
 * March 8 - Edward Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for string quartet and string orchestra and Pomp and Circumstance No.3 are premièred as the composer conducts the London Symphony Orchestra
 * March 12 - Ottorino Respighi's first opera Re Enzo receives its initial performance in Bologna.
 * March 16 - Pietro Mascagni's lyric drama Amica is premièred at the Theatre du Casino, Monte Carlo.
 * March 19 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is dismissed from the faculty of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory for supporting students who went on strike demanding reforms.
 * March 27 - A performance of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Kashchey the Deathless becomes the scene of heated public demonstration as a result of recent events at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
 * April 14 - Engelbert Humperdinck's three-act comic opera Die Heirat wider Willen receives its initial performance at the Royal Opera in Berlin.
 * April 15 - The Consertvatory of Geneva gives the first public demonstration os Émile Jaques-Dalcroze's eurythmics.
 * April 30 - Louis Coerne is awarded a Ph.D.for his dissertation The Evolution of Modern Orchestration.
 * May 25 - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze's opera Onkel Dazumal is produced in Cologne
 * May 29 - Alexander Scriabin's Symphony No.3 in C Major, The Divine Poem, Op.43, is performed for the first time by Arthur Nikisch in Paris.
 * June 26 - Gabriel Faure succeeds Theodore Dubois as director of the Paris Conservatoire
 * September – The lyrics of Rabindranath Tagore's song "Amar Shonar Bangla" are published in two magazines. They are later adopted as the national anthem of Bangladesh.
 * September 8 - Double-bass virtuoso Serge Koussevitzky maries Natalie Ushkov, the daughter of a wealthy tea merchant
 * September 29 - George Whitefield Chadwick's symphonic poem Cleopatra premieres at the Worcester Music Festival in Massachusetts
 * October – The opera house at Nancy, France, is destroyed by fire.
 * October 4 - Enrico Caruso, now in Vienna, denies clams of music critics in Budapest that he "had to have morphine injected" when he sang in Budapest
 * October 8 - Max Reger's Sinfonietta in A Major, Op.90 is premiered by Felix Mottl in Essen
 * October 11 – The Institute of Musical Art, predecessor of the Juilliard School, opens in New York City.
 * October 15 – Claude Debussy's La Mer is premiered in Paris as Camille Chevillard conducts the Lamoureux Orchestra.
 * October 19 - A revised final version of Jean Sibelius' Violin concerto in D Minor, Op.47, premieres in Berlin with Carl Halir as soloist.
 * October 21
 * Henry Wood first conducts a performance of his Fantasia on British Sea Songs at a Trafalgar Day concert in London.
 * Turandot Suite, by Ferruccio Busoni, receives its first performance in Berlin.
 * October 29 - The first concert of the New Symphony Orchestra of London occurs at the Coronet Theater, London
 * Otto Klemperer meets Mahler for the first time, while conducting one of his works.
 * December 1 - The first opera by an American composer ever to be staged in Europe is produced in Bremen. It is the three-act opera Zenobia, by Louis Adolphe Coerne.
 * December 5 - Alexander Glazunov is elected director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory
 * December 9 - Richard Strauss's one-act musical drama Salome receives its initial performance at the Königliches Opernhaus in Dresden.
 * December 26 - Charles-Marie Widor's four-act opera Les Pecheurs de Saint-Jean receives its first performance at the Opera-Comique in Paris.
 * December 28 - Die lustige Witwe by Franz Lehar, receives its first performance in Vienna.

Published popular music

 * "Amoureuse Waltz" Berger
 * "And The World Goes On Just The Same" w. Jean Lenox m. Harry O. Sutton
 * "Bandana Land" by Glen MacDonough
 * "Bethena" m. Scott Joplin
 * "Bink's Waltz" m. Scott Joplin
 * "Birth of the Flowers" m. Charles E. Roat
 * "Bunker Hill" w. Sam Erlich m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "Can't You See That I'm Lonely" w. Felix Feist m. Harry Armstrong
 * "Carrisima" by Arthur Penn
 * "Caw-Caw-Caw" w.m. by Maurice Stonehill & Joe Nathan
 * "College Life" m. Hery Frantzen
 * "Come Clean" by Paul Sarebresole
 * "Daddy's Little Girl" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "Dearie" w.m. Clare Kummer
 * "Down Where The Silv'ry Mohawk Flows" w. Monroe Rosenfeld m. John A. Heinzman & Otto Milton Heinzman (1873–1943)
 * "Everybody Works But Father" w.m. Jean Havez
 * "Farewell, Mister Abner Hemingway" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway" w.m. George M. Cohan from the musical of the same name.
 * "Friends That Are Good And True" Eysler
 * "G. O. P." Bryan, Hoffman
 * "Gee ! But This Is A Lonesome Town" Gaston
 * "The Girl Who Cares For Me" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
 * "Goodbye, Maggie Doyle" Jean Schwartz
 * "Good-bye, Sweet Old Manhattan Isle" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "Goodbye, Sweetheart, Goodbye" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Harry von Tilzer
 * "Happy Heine" m. J. Bodewalt Lampe
 * "He's Me Pal" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Gus Edwards
 * "Hiram Green, Good-bye" w. Henry Gillespie m. Clarence M. Chapel
 * "How'd You Like To Spoon With Me?" w. Edward Laska m. Jerome Kern
 * "I Don't Care" w. Jean Lenox m. Harry O. Sutton
 * "I Love A Lassie" w. Harry Lauder & George Grafton m. Harry Lauder
 * "I Want What I Want When I Want It" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
 * "I Would Like To Marry You" w. m. Edward Laska
 * "I Thought It Was My Birthday Come" w.m. T.W. Connor
 * "If A Girl Like You Loved A Boy Like Me" w.m. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
 * "If The Man In The Moon Were A Coon" w.m. Fred Fisher
 * "I'm Getting Sleepy" w. Wilbur U. Gumm m. Joe Hollander
 * "I'm The Only Star That Twinkles On Broadway" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
 * "I'm Trying To Find A Sweetheart" w. Jean Lenox m. Henry O. Sutton
 * "In Dear Old Georgia" w. Harry Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
 * "In My Merry Oldsmobile" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Gus Edwards
 * "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
 * "The Irish Girl I Love" w. George V. Hobart m. Max Hoffmann
 * "Is Everybody Happy?" w. Frank Williams m. Ernest Hogan & Tom Lemonier
 * "It Ain't All Honey And It Ain't All Jam" w.m. Fred Murray & George Everard
 * "It's Allus De Same In Dixie" Cook
 * "I've Got A Little Money And I've Saved It All For You" Farrell, Silver
 * "I've Sweethearts In Every Port" Keith
 * "Jolly Pickaninnies" m. Ernst Rueffe
 * "Just A Little Rocking Chair And You" w. Bert Fitzgibbon & Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "Keep A Little Cosy Corner In Your Heart For Me" w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "Kiss Me Again" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
 * "The Leader Of The German Band" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "Leola" m. Scott Joplin
 * "Little Girl, You'll Do" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt m. Alfred Solman
 * "Mary's A Grand Old Name" w.m. George M. Cohan. From the musical Forty-five Minutes from Broadway.
 * "Meet Me Down At Luna, Lena" Brady, Johnston, Frantzen
 * "The Moon Has His Eyes On You" w. Billy Johnson m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "Moonlight" w. James O'Dea m. Neil Moret
 * "My Dusky Rose" w.m. Thomas S. Allen
 * "My Gal Sal" w.m. Paul Dresser
 * "My Irish Maid" Hoffman
 * "My Irish Molly O" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "Nellie Dean" Henry W. Armstrong
 * "Nobody" w. Alex Rogers m. Bert A. Williams
 * "On An Automobile Honeymoon" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "On The Banks Of The Rhine With A Stein" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
 * "One Called "Mother" And The Other "Home Sweet Home"" w. William Cahill m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "Paddy's Day" Fogarty, Mullen
 * "Parade Of The Tin Soldiers" later known as "Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers" m. Leon Jessel
 * "Peaches And Cream" m. Percy Wenrich
 * "A Picnic For Two" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "Pretty Desdamone" w.m. F. Collins Wildman
 * "Put Me In My Little Cell" w P.G. Wodehouse, m Frederick Rosse
 * "Ramblin' Sam" w. Harry H. Williams m. Jean Schwartz
 * "Robinson Crusoe's Isle" w.m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt
 * "Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "Say Yes, Honey, Do" by Sara E. Posey
 * "She Is My Daisy" w.m. Harry Lauder & J. D. Harper
 * "Silence And Fun" Mullen
 * "Since Nellie Went Away" w.m. Herbert H. Taylor
 * "So Long Mary" w.m. George M. Cohan
 * "Tammany" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Gus Edwards
 * "They Can't Diddle Me" w.m. T.W. Connor
 * "To Be Loved by the Girl You Love" Irving J. Schloss
 * "The Umpire Is A Most Unhappy Man" w. Will M. Hough & Frank R. Adams m. Joseph E. Howard
 * "Violette" w. Dolly Jardon m. J. B. Mullen
 * "Wait 'Til The Sun Shines, Nellie" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "Waiting At The Church" w. Fred W. Leigh m. Henry E. Pether
 * "Waltzing With The Girl You Love" w.m. George Evans & Ren Shields
 * "When The Bell In The Lighthouse Rings Ding Dong" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Alfred Solman
 * "Where The River Shannon Flows" w.m. James J. Russell
 * "The Whistler And His Dog" m. Arthur Pryor
 * "The Whole Damm Family" Smith, Von Tilzer
 * "Why Don't You Try?" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
 * "Will You Love Me In December" w. James J. Walker m. Ernest R. Ball
 * "A Woman Is Only A Woman But A Good Cigar Is A Smoke" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert

Recorded popular music

 * "I Love A Lassie" by Harry Lauder
 * "Yankee Doodle Boy" by Billy Murray
 * "Give My Regards To Broadway" by Billy Murray
 * "In My Merry Oldsmobile" by Billy Murray

Classical music

 * Hugo Alfvén – Symphony No. 3 in E major
 * Claude Debussy
 * La mer
 * Suite bergamasque (revised)
 * Edward Elgar – Introduction and Allegro for Strings
 * George Enescu – Symphony No. 1 in E-flat major, Op. 13
 * Gabriel Fauré – Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 89
 * Leoš Janáček – Piano Sonata 1.X.1905
 * Reynaldo Hahn – Le Bal de Béatrice d'Este, suite for wind instruments, two harps and piano
 * Serge Koussevitzky - Concerto for Dobble Bass and Orchestra
 * Nikolai Medtner – Fairy Tales for Piano (Opp. 8, 9)
 * Carl Nielsen – Søvnen (The Sleep)
 * Vítězslav Novák – Quartet for Strings No. 2 in D Major
 * Helena Munktell – Violin Sonata, Op.21
 * Ole Olsen – Trombone Concerto
 * Maurice Ravel – Introduction et Allegro, for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet
 * Emil von Reznicek
 * Nachtstück
 * Präludium und chromatische Fuge
 * Symphony No.2 in B-flat major "Ironic"
 * Albert Roussel – Conte à la poupée, L.5
 * Camille Saint-Saëns – Cello Sonata No. 2
 * Arnold Schoenberg – String Quartet No. 1, Op. 7 in D minor.
 * Jean Sibelius – Violin Concerto (Op. 47)
 * Emil Sjögren
 * Poème, Op.40
 * Piano Sonata No.2, Op.44
 * Anton Webern –
 * Langsamer Satz, for string quartet
 * String Quartet in one movement
 * Haydn Wood – Phantasy String Quartet

Opera

 * Frederick Converse – The Pipe of Desire
 * Leo Fall – Irrlicht
 * Manuel de Falla – La Vida breve (libretto by Fernández Shaw)
 * Franz Lehár
 * Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) (Libretto by Victor Léon and Leo Stein, after the play L'attaché d'ambassade (The Embassy Attaché) by Henri Meilhac)
 * Tatjana, premiered February 21 in Brünn
 * Jules Massenet – Chérubin (Libretto by Henri Cain and Francis de Croisset)
 * Leopoldo Mugnone – Vita Bretone
 * Richard Strauss – Salome (Libretto by Hedwig Lachmann, from the play by Oscar Wilde)

Musical theater

 * The Babes and the Baron Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 25 and ran for 45 performances
 * The Catch of the Season Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on August 28 and ran for 104 performances.
 * The Earl and the Girl Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on November 4 and ran for 148 performances.
 * Fantana Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on January 14 and ran for 298 performances.
 * Lifting the Lid Broadway production opened at the Aerial Gardens Theatre on June 5 and ran for 72 performances
 * Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) Vienna production, December 28
 * Miss Dolly Dollars Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on September 4 and moved to the New Amsterdam Theatre on October 16 for a total run of 112 performances.
 * Mlle. Modiste Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on December 12 and ran for 202 performances
 * The Rogers Brothers in Ireland Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on September 4 and ran for 106 performances.
 * The Rollicking Girl Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on May 1 and transferred to the New York Theatre on April 16, 1906, for a total run of 199 performances
 * Sergeant Brue Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on April 24 and ran for 152 performances.
 * The Spring Chicken London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on May 30 and ran for 401 performances
 * When We Were Forty-One Broadway production opened at the New York Roof Theatre on June 12 and ran for 66 performances
 * Wonderland Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on October 24 and ran for 73 performances

Births

 * January 2 – Michael Tippett, composer (d. 1998)
 * January 5 - Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer (d. 1989)
 * January 8 – Giacinto Scelsi, composer (d. 1988)
 * January 10 – Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (d. 1993)
 * January 12 – Tex Ritter, actor and singer (d. 1974)
 * January 24 – Elena Nicolai, opera singer (d. 1993)
 * January 26 – Maria von Trapp, singer (d. 1987)
 * February 11 – William Henry "Chick" Webb, drummer (d. 1939)
 * February 15 – Harold Arlen, popular composer (d. 1986)
 * February 18 – Queenie Leonard, British character actress and singer (d. 2002)
 * February 25 – Harald Lander, Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1971)
 * March 2 – Marc Blitzstein, American composer (d. 1964)
 * March 6 – Bob Wills, country music singer (d. 1975)
 * March 11 – Michael Carr, composer and songwriter (d. 1968)
 * March 15
 * Bertha Hill, American blues, vaudeville singer and dancer (d. 1950)
 * Harold Loeffelmacher, musician and bandleader, Six Fat Dutchmen (d. 1987)
 * March 18 - John Kirkpatrick, American pianist (d.1991)
 * March 21 – Ivar Haglund, folksinger and restaurateur (d. 1985)
 * March 22 - Ruth Page, dancer, choreographer and ballet director (d. 1991)
 * March 23 – Lale Andersen, singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)
 * April 2
 * Serge Lifar, Russian choreographer and dancer (d. 1976)
 * Kurt Herbert Adler, Austrian conductor (d. 1988)
 * April 3 - Lili Kraus, Hungarian pianist (d. 1986)
 * May 2 – Alan Rawsthorne, composer (d. 1971)
 * May 4 - Mátyás Seiber, Hungarian composer (d.1960)
 * May 7 – Bumble Bee Slim, American Piedmont blues singer, guitarist (d. 1968)
 * May 8 – Red Nichols, US bandleader and cornettist (d. 1965)
 * May 10 – Louis Kaufman, American violinist (d. 1994)
 * May 11 – Kansas Joe McCoy, American Delta blues musician, songwriter (d. 1950)
 * May 24 - Sascha Gorodnitzki, pianist (d. 1986)
 * June 4 - José Echániz, Cuban-American pianist (d. 1969)
 * June 6 - Arthur Mendel, music scholar and musicologist (d. 1979)
 * June 13 – Doc Cheatham, US jazz trumpeter (d. 1997)
 * June 18
 * Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer (d. 1982)
 * Leonid Lavrovsky, Soviet dancer, choreographer and ballet director (d. 1967)
 * June 23 – Jesús Bal y Gay, Spanish composer, music critic and musicologist (d. 1993)
 * July 7
 * Charlo, Argentine singer, musician, pianist, actor and composer (d. 1990)
 * Max Rostal, Austrian-British violinist (d. 1991)
 * July 10 – Ivie Anderson, US jazz singer (d. 1949)
 * July 15 – Dorothy Fields, US lyricist and librettist (d. 1974)
 * August 2 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer (d. 1963)
 * August 8 – André Jolivet, composer (d. 1974)
 * August 23 – Constant Lambert, composer (d. 1951)
 * August 29 – Jack Teagarden, jazz trombonist, singer, bandleader and composer (d. 1964)
 * October 4 – Léon Orthel, composer and pianist (d. 1985)
 * October 23 - Alexander Melik-Pashayev, Georgian conductor (d. 1964)
 * October 24 – Elizabeth Poston, English composer, pianist and writer (d. 1987)
 * November 7 – William Alwyn, composer (d. 1985)
 * November 12 - Arthur Hedley, English musicologist (d.1969)
 * November 15 – Annunzio Mantovani Italian-born British orchestra leader and composer (d. 1980)
 * November 19 – Tommy Dorsey, jazz trombonist and brother of Jimmy Dorsey (d. 1956)
 * November 21 – Ted Ray, comedian and violinist (d. 1977)
 * November 24 – Harry Barris, US singer, composer and pianist (d. 1962)
 * December 7 – Charles Magnante, accordionist, composer, arranger, author, and educator (d. 1986)
 * December 8 – Ernst Hermann Meyer, German (later East German) musicologist and composer (d. 1988)
 * December 31 – Jule Styne, composer (d. 1994)

Deaths

 * January 4 – Theodore Thomas, conductor (b. 1835)
 * January 5 – Belle Cole, operatic contralto (b. 1845)
 * January 10 – Kārlis Baumanis, composer (b. 1835)
 * January 22 – Alfred Dörffel, German pianist (born 1821)
 * February 10 – Ignacy Krzyżanowski, composer (b. 1826)
 * February 12 – Edward Dannreuther, pianist (b. 1844)
 * March 15 – Luigi Manzotti, choreographer (b. 1835)
 * April 12 – Giuseppe Gariboldi, flautist and composer (b. 1833)
 * April 29 – Ignacio Cervantes, pianist and composer (b. 1847)
 * May 5 – Ernst Pauer, pianist (b. 1826)
 * May 13 – Sam S. Shubert, Broadway impresario (b. 1878) (rail crash)
 * May 14 – Jessie Bartlett Davis, operatic contralto (b. 1859)
 * May 15 – Andrey Schulz-Evler, composer and arranger (b. 1852)
 * May 31 – Franz Strauss, musician and composer, father of Richard Strauss (b. 1822)
 * July 8 – Walter Kittredge, self-taught musician and composer (b. 1834)
 * August 25 – Felix vom Rath, composer (born 1866)
 * August 28 – Yannis Apostolou, Greek tenor who performed widely in Italy under the name Giovanni Apostolu (b. 1860)
 * August 31 – Francesco Tamagno, operatic tenor (b. 1850)
 * September 22 – Célestine Marié, mezzo-soprano, the first "Carmen" (b. 1837)
 * October 18 – Emmie Owen, opera singer (b. 1871)
 * December 9 – Henry Holmes, composer and violinist (b. 1839)

title: 1905 in music


text:
1904 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1904.

Specific locations

 * 1904 in Norwegian music

Events

 * January 9 – Estampes by Claude Debussy, receives its initial performance at the Societe Nationale de Musique in Paris.
 * January 13 – Béla Bartók's symphonic poem Kossuth is premiered in Budapest, becoming his first major work to be performed.
 * January 21 – The Deutsches Nationaltheater in Brno premiers Leoš Janáček's opera Její pastorkyňa (later known as Jenůfa), with Czech libretto by the composer.
 * January 28 – The Russian Symphony Orchestra formed by conductor Modest Altschuler gives its first concert at Cooper Union in New York City. (The orchestra is an American one with a Russian name, not a Russian orchestra touring the United States.)
 * February 1 – Enrico Caruso records the aria "Vesti la giubba" from Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliaci for the Victor Company, his first recording in the United States.
 * February 4 – Jules Massenet's ballet La Cigale is performed for the first time at the Opera-Comique in Paris.
 * February 8 – Jean Sibelius conducts the premiere of his Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47 in Helsinki, Finland; Viktor Nováček is soloist.
 * February 17 – Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly debuts at La Scala in Milan to no great acclaim.
 * February 18 – Camille Saint-Saëns's opera Helene premieres at Monte Carlo.
 * February 28 – Vincent d'Indy's Symphony No.2 in B-flat Major, Op.57 is performed for the first time by the Lamoureux Orchestra in Paris.
 * February 29 – Bela Bartok's Scherzo Burlesque for Piano and Orchestra, Op.2, premieres in Budapest.
 * March 2 – Emma Calve sings Carmen at the New York Metropolitan Opera. This is her farewell performance with this opera company.
 * March 5 – Maurice Ravel's String Quartet in F major receives its first performance in Paris, given by the Societe Nationale de Musique; it is the only quartet by the composer.
 * March 16 – The Hallé Orchestra of Manchester gives the first performance of the concert overture In the South, by Edward Elgar, conducted by the composer.
 * March 18 – Anatoly Liadov's symphonic poem Baba-Yaga premieres in Saint Petersburg.
 * March 21 – Tone poem Symphonia domestica by Richard Strauss receives its premiere at Carnegie Hall, New York City, conducted by the composer on his first visit to the United States.
 * March 25 – Antonín Dvořák's last opera, Armida, is produced in its original Czech version in Prague.
 * March 30 – The first opera of English composer Frederick Delius, Koanga, premieres at the Stadttheater in Elberfeld, Germany.
 * April 25 – Jean Sibelius' Valse triste premieres in Helsinki, Finland, the composer conducting.
 * May 10 – Hugo Alfven's rhapsody for orchestra Midsommervaka premieres in Stockholm.
 * May 16 – The Diamond Jubilee of violinist Joseph Joachim's first appearance in England is celebrated at Queen's Hall, London.
 * May 17
 * Maurice Ravel's Sheherezade and Albert Roussel's Resurrection are premiered on the same program at a concert of the Societe Nationale de Musique in Paris.
 * Vincent d'Indy's Choral varie Op.55, a composition featuring the saxophone as solo instrument, premieres in Paris
 * May 28 – A revised three-act version of Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly is performed in Brescia with enormous praise.
 * June 9 – The Queen's Hall Orchestra, under Sir Henry Wood, plays its first concert under its new name of the London Symphony Orchestra.
 * June 15 – The first transmission of wireless telegraphy featuring music and dialogue takes place in Salzburg with Otto Nußbaumer making the transmission.
 * June 27 – Raoul Laparra is awarded the first Grand Prix de Rome by the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris with his cantata Alyssa. Maurice Ravel was a contestant.
 * July 5 – Composer Edward Elgar is knighted in Great Britain by King Edward VII.
 * July 15 – Soprano Agnes Nicholls marries conductor Hamilton Harty.
 * July – The Act of Touch in All Its Diversity by pianist Tobias Matthay is published in London by Longmans, Green and Co.
 * September 7 – Sir Hubert Parry's choral work The Love that Casteth Out Fear premieres at the Gloucester Music Festival. This work, about the passion of Christ, has a text by the composer.
 * September 12 – Pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski gives a concert in Wellington, New Zealand.
 * October
 * Alban Berg begins his studies under Arnold Schoenberg.
 * The Gramophone Company records the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria (G.C. 03033) performed by Dame Nellie Melba with Jan Kubelík on violin.
 * October 16 – Pan Voyevoda, a four-act opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, receives its first performance in Saint Petersburg.
 * October 18 – Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5 is premiered by the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne under the composer's baton; it is also first published this year.
 * November 4 – Franco Alfano's four-act opera Risurrezione based on Tolstoy's novel receives its first performance in Turin
 * November 5 – Emil Oberhoffer conducts the first concert of the newly established Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra.
 * November 10
 * Ferruccio Busoni gives the world premiere of his Piano Concerto at the Beethoven-Saal in Berlin.
 * Arthur Nikisch and the Berlin Philharmonic record Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No.5 in C minor for the Gramophone Company, the first recording of a complete symphony.
 * November 13 – Caprice andalou by Camille Saint-Saëns, scored for violin and orchestra, receives its initial performance in Paris
 * November 16 – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, in his first trip to the United States, conducts the first American performance of his The Song of Hiawatha.
 * November 20 – The Hague Philharmonic Orchestra gives its inaugural concert, conducted by Henri Viotta.
 * November 22 – Pope Pius X issues his Motu proprio Tra le sollecitudini a papal document in which he puts forth rules for performance and interpretation of Gregorian chant.
 * November 29 – Ernst von Dohnanyi's 4 Rhapsodies for Piano, Op.11, are premiered in Vienna, the composer performing.
 * December 10 – Serge Rachmaninoff, Sergei Taneyev and Alexander Scriabin are among the winners of the first annual Glinka Award for best composition by Russian composers.
 * December 13 – Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Der Roland von Berlin premieres at Berlin. The opera is a failure.
 * December 24
 * Theodore Thomas conducts his final concert with the Chicago Orchestra.
 * The Metropolitan Opera in New York City gives the first performance outside Bayreuth of Richard Wagner's Parsifal, despite copyright objections raised by Cosima and Siegried Wagner.
 * December 26 – Dancer Isadora Duncan makes her Russian debut in Saint Petersburg to music by Frédéric Chopin.
 * December 29 – The Seattle Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert, conducted by Harry West at Christensen's Hall.
 * Heckelphone introduced from Wilhelm Heckel's workshop.
 * Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo is given a modern debut in concert version in Paris.

Published popular music

 * "Abraham" w. Sterling m. Von Tilzer
 * "Absinthe Frappe" w. Glen MacDonough m. Victor Herbert
 * "Ain't It Funny What a Difference Just a Few Hours Make" w. Henry Blossom m. Alfred G. Robyn. Introduced by Raymond Hitchcock in the Broadway show The Yankee Consul
 * "Al Fresco" w. Glen MacDonough m. Victor Herbert
 * "Alexander" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "All Aboard For Dreamland" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "Back, Back To Baltimore" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
 * "Big Indian Chief" w. Bob Cole m. J. Rosamond Johnson
 * "Billy" w. Edgar Malone m. Ted S. Barron
 * "Blue Bell" w. Edward Madden, Dolly Morse m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "By The Old Oak Tree" w. George V. Hobart m. Max Hoffmann
 * "Come Back To Sorrento" (Original title "Torna A Surriento") w.m. Ernesto de Curtis & Claude Aveling
 * "Come Down From The Big Fig Tree" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore Morse
 * "Come Take A Trip In My Airship" w. Ren Shields m. George Evans
 * "Cordalia Malone" Jerome, Schwartz
 * "The Countess Of Alagazam" w.m. Bob Cole
 * "The Day That You Grew Colder" w.m. Paul Dresser
 * "Don't Cry, Katie, Dear" Mills
 * "Down In The Subway" Jerome, Schwartz
 * "Down On The Brandywine" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. J. B. Mullen
 * "Fascination" w. Dick Manning m. F. D. Marchetti Words 1932.
 * "Fishing" w. James Weldon Johnson m. J. Rosamond Johnson
 * "Following In Father's Footsteps" w.m. E. W. Rogers
 * "Fu' The Noo" w. Harry Lauder & Gerald Grafton m. Harry Lauder
 * "The Ghost That Never Walked" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "Gimme De Leavins" w. James Weldon Johnson m. Bob Cole
 * "Give My Regards to Broadway" w.m. George M. Cohan
 * "Good-bye Flo" w.m. George M. Cohan
 * "Goodbye, Little Girl, Goodbye" w. Will D. Cobb m.. Gus Edwards
 * "Goodbye, My Lady Love" w.m. Joseph E. Howard
 * "The Goo-Goo Man" Stoddard, Schindler, Jerome
 * "Hannah, Won't You Open That Door" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
 * "Have You Seen Maggie Riley?" Von Tilzer
 * "He Done Me Wrong" w.m. Hughie Cannon
 * "Heinie" Rose, Snyder
 * "I Love You All The Time" w.m. Will R. Anderson
 * "I Want To Be A Soldier" w.m. William Cahill
 * "I'm Longing For My Old Kentucky Home" w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen
 * "In The Days Of Old" w. Henry Blossom m. Alfred G. Robyn
 * "In Zanzibar – My Little Chimpanzee" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
 * "Just An Ever-Loving Girl" w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen
 * "Just For The Sake Of Society" w. Alfred Bryan m. Kerry Mills
 * "Kiss Me Good Night, Dear Love" w.m. Malcolm Williams & Israel Zangwill
 * "Let's All Go Up To Maud's" w. Joseph C. Farrell m. Kerry Mills
 * "Life's a Funny Proposition After All" w.m. George M Cohan
 * "A Little Boy Called "Taps"" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "The Man Behind" w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen
 * "The Man With The Ladder And Hose" w.m. T. Mayo Geary
 * "La Mattinata" m. Ruggiero Leoncavallo
 * "Maureen Of Ballinasloe" w. J. Francis Barron m. J. Airlie Dix
 * "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Kerry Mills
 * "Mexico" w. James Weldon Johnson & Bob Cole m. Bob Cole
 * "Mister Wilson, That's All" w. Henry Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
 * "My Honey Lou" w.m. Thurland Chattaway
 * "My Kangaroo" Farrell & Kohlman
 * "Nan! Nan! Nan!" by Edward Madden
 * "Oh Bliss! Oh Joy!" Mullen
 * "Oh Gee! It's Great To Be Crazy" Carle, Bowers
 * "Oh! Oh! Sallie" Hartlett
 * "On The Warpath" Raymond A. Browne (composer)
 * "One Fine Day" (Original title "Un Bel Di") w. L. Illica & G. Giacosa m. G. Puccini
 * "Please Come And Play In My Yard" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "Preacher and the Bear" w.m. George Fairman
 * "Saint Louis Rag" m. Tom Turpin
 * "Scissors To Grind" w.m. Thomas S. Allen
 * "Seminole" w. Harry Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
 * "Shame On You" Larkin, Smith
 * "She Went to the City" by Paul Dresser
 * "Since Little Dolly Dimples Made A Hit" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "St. Louis Tickle" m. Barney & Seymore
 * "The Story Of A Clothes Line" m. James W. Tate w. Frank Clifford Harris
 * "Sweet Thoughts Of Home" w. Stanislaus Stange m. Julian Edwards
 * "Teasing" w. Cecil Mack m. Albert Von Tilzer
 * "Those Songs My Mother Used To Sing" w.m. H. Wakefield Smith
 * "Three Green Bonnets" w. Harris m. Guy d'Hardelot
 * "Tippecanoe" w. Harry Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
 * "The Trumpeter" by Francis Barron
 * "What The Brass Band Played" Drislane, Morse
 * "Why Adam Sinned" w.m. Alex Rogers
 * "Won't You Fondle Me" w.m. James Kendis & Herman Paley
 * "The Yankee Doodle Boy" w.m. George M. Cohan
 * "Your Mother Wants You Home Boy" w.m. Paul Dresser

Classical music

 * Béla Bartók
 * Piano Quintet
 * Rhapsody, Op. 1
 * Hakon Børresen – Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G major
 * František Alois Drdla – Souvenir in D major
 * Edward Elgar
 * In the South
 * Pomp and Circumstance March No. 3 in C minor
 * Alexander Glazunov – Violin Concerto in A minor
 * Enrique Granados – Allegro de concierto
 * Hamilton Harty – An Irish Symphony
 * Gustav Mahler – Kindertotenlieder (Songs of the Death of Children) (song-cycle)
 * Erkki Melartin – Sleeping Beauty, Op.22
 * Selim Palmgren – Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor
 * Max Reger – Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Hiller
 * Alexander Scriabin – Symphony No. 3
 * Cyril Scott
 * Scherzo, Op.25
 * 2 Pierrot Pieces, Op.35
 * 2 Piano Pieces, Op.37
 * Petar Stojanović – Violin Concerto No. 1
 * Igor Stravinsky – Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor

Opera

 * Franco Alfano – Risurrezione
 * Frederick Delius – Koanga
 * Antonín Dvořák – Armida
 * Leoš Janáček – Jenůfa (Její pastorkyňa)
 * Ruggero Leoncavallo – Der Roland von Berlin
 * Giacomo Puccini – Madama Butterfly
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff – The Miserly Knight
 * Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov – Pan Voyevoda
 * Camille Saint-Saëns – Helene
 * Amedeo Vives – Bohemios

Operetta

 * A rátartós királykisasszony (The Haughty Princess) by Victor Jacobi. First performed on December 17 at Budapest.

Ballet

 * La Cigale by Jules Massenet's is performed for the first time at the Opera-Comique in Paris (Feb.4)

Musical theater

 * The Catch of the Season London production opened at the Vaudeville Theatre on September 9 and ran for 621 performances
 * The Cingalee (Lionel Monckton, Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank) – London production opened at Daly's Theatre on March 5 and ran for 365 performances
 * It Happened in Nordland Broadway production opened at the Lew M. Fields Theatre on December 5 and ran for 254 performances
 * Little Johnny Jones (book, music, lyrics, direction and featuring George M. Cohan) Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on November 7 and ran for 52 performances
 * Paris by Night (Music: Alfred Solmon Book: Harry Marshall) Broadway production opened at the Madison Square Roof Garden on July 2 and ran for 50 performances. Starring Ben Welch.
 * The Rogers Brothers In Paris Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on September 5 and ran for 72 performances
 * Sergeant Brue London production opened at the Strand Theatre on June 14
 * The Yankee Consul Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on February 22 and ran for 115 performances

Births

 * January 10 – Ray Bolger, singer and dancer (d. 1987)
 * January 13 – Richard Addinsell, composer (d. 1977)
 * January 15
 * Eddie DeLange, bandleader and lyricist (d. 1949)
 * Leonid Jacobson, Russian dancer, choreographer and ballet master (d. 1975)
 * January 18 – Anthony Galla-Rini, accordionist, composer and conductor (d. 2006)
 * January 22 – George Balanchine, Russian choreographer (d. 1983)
 * February 3 – Luigi Dallapiccola, composer (d. 1975)
 * February 23 – Allan Gray, film composer (d. 1973)
 * February 29 – Jimmy Dorsey, bandleader (d. 1957)
 * March 1 – Glenn Miller, trombonist and bandleader (m. 1944)
 * March 4 – Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942)
 * March 8 – Nikos Skalkottas Greek composer (d.1949)
 * April 9 – Sharkey Bonano, jazz musician (d. 1972)
 * April 16 – Fifi D'Orsay, actress and singer (d. 1983)
 * April 18 – Pigmeat Markham, all-round entertainer (d. 1981)
 * April 29
 * Russ Morgan, orchestra leader (d. 1969)
 * Pedro Vargas, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1989)
 * May 21 – Fats Waller, American pianist and comedian (d. 1943)
 * May 23 – Libby Holman, US singer and actress (d. 1971)
 * May 25 – Kurt Thomas, German choral conductor (d.1973)
 * May 26 – George Formby, English music hall performer, singer, actor and songwriter (d. 1961)
 * May 28 – Margaret Harris, opera costume and set designer (d. 2000)
 * May 29 – León Zuckert, conductor, composer and arranger (d. 1992)
 * June 3 – Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)
 * June 6 – Raymond Burke, clarinettist (d. 1986)
 * June 7 – Don Murray, clarinettist (d. 1929)
 * June 11 – Pinetop Smith, jazz pianist (d. 1929)
 * June 15 – Anna Mahler, musician and sculptor (d. 1988)
 * June 21 – Mack Gordon, Polish-born US lyricist (d. 1959)
 * June 24 – Phil Harris, jazz musician (d. 1995)
 * July 9 – Robert Whitney, British conductor (d. 1986)
 * July 14 – Nadia Reisenberg, Litvian pianist (d. 1983)
 * July 15
 * Dorothy Fields, librettist and lyricist (d. 1974)
 * Vladimir Bourmeister, Russian dancer and choreographer (d.1971)
 * July 16
 * Goffredo Petrassi, composer (d. 2003)
 * Mabel Wayne – US composer (d. 1978)
 * July 18 – Harold Spivacke, music librarian and administrator (d. 1977)
 * July 24
 * Leo Arnaud – film composer (d. 1991)
 * Anton Dolin – English dancer and choreographer (d.1983)
 * July 26 – Jack Westrup, musicologist (d. 1975)
 * August 13 – Charles "Buddy" Rogers, actor and singer (d. 1989)
 * August 17 – Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist (d. 1991)
 * August 21 – Count Basie, pianist and bandleader (d. 1984)
 * September 2 – Set Svanholm, Swedish operatic tenor (d.1964)
 * September 17 – Sir Frederick Ashton, dancer and choreographer (d. 1988)
 * October 11 – Tita Merello, tango singer, dancer and actress (d. 2002)
 * October 20 – Anna Neagle, actress and singer (d. 1986)
 * October 24 – Moss Hart, musical theatre director (d. 1961)
 * October 26 – Boris Khaykin, Russian conductor (d.1978)
 * October 29 – Vivian Ellis, English composer (d. 1996)
 * November 1 or November 14 – Aleksey Zhivotov, composer (d. 1964)
 * November 11 – Joseph Lockwood, record company executive (d. 1991)
 * November 14 – Dick Powell, actor and singer (d. 1963)
 * November 18 – Masao Koga, Japanese composer (d. 1978)
 * November 20 – Alexandra Danilova, Russian dancer and teacher (d.1997)
 * November 21 – Coleman Hawkins, saxophonist (d. 1969)
 * November 25 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (d. 2000)
 * December 9 – Elsie Randolph, English actress, dancer and singer (d. 1982)
 * December 18 – Wilf Carter, country singer (d. 1966)
 * December 26 – Alejo Carpentier, musicologist (d. 1980)
 * December 30 – Dmitry Kabalevsky, Soviet pianist and composer (d.1987)
 * December 31
 * Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer and actress (d. 1975)
 * Nathan Milstein, Russian violinist (d.1992)

Deaths

 * January 2 – Peter Jurgenson, Russian music publisher (b.1836)
 * January 4 – Mitrofan Belyayev, music publisher (b. 1836)
 * January 10 – Antoinette Sterling, singer
 * January 15 – Eduard Lassen, composer (b. 1830)
 * January 20 – Maria Louisa Bustill, mother of Paul Robeson (b. 1853) (domestic accident)
 * February 8 – Malvina Garrigues, soprano and composer (b. 1825)
 * March 10 – Giovanni Cesari, castrato singer (b. 1843)
 * March 11 – Charles Grisart, opera composer (b. 1837)
 * March 20 – Louisa Pyne, operatic soprano and opera company manager (b. 1832)
 * March 31 – Sophia Karp, actress and singer (b. 1861)
 * February 8 – Malwine Schnorr von Varolsfeld, German soprano (b.1825)
 * April 29 – Nellie Farren, burlesque actress and singer (b. 1848)
 * May 1 – Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (b. 1841)
 * May 14 – Morrison Foster, editor and brother to Stephen Foster (born 1823)
 * May 19 – Korla Awgust Kocor, conductor and composer (b. 1822)
 * May 30 – Laura Joyce Bell, contralto singer and actress (b. 1854)
 * June 28 – Dan Emmett, founder of the Virginia Minstrels (b. 1815)
 * July 13 – Giulia Warwick, operatic soprano and actress (b. 1857)
 * July 20 – Arthur Lloyd, music hall entertainer and songwriter (b. 1839)
 * August 6 – Eduard Hanslick, music critic (b. 1825)
 * September 26 – Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, translator (born 1850)
 * October 31 – Dan Leno, English music hall comedian, clog dancer and singer (b. 1860)
 * November 30 – Aldine Silliman Kieffer, music teacher and publisher (b. 1840)
 * date unknown – Antonio Galassi, operatic baritone (b. 1845)

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1903 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1903.

Specific locations

 * 1903 in Norwegian music

Events

 * January 1 - The French government awards the Cross of Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur to Claude Debussy
 * January 3 - Alexander Glazunov's Symphony No. 7 "Pastorale" in F major Op.70 and the orchestral suite "From the Middle Ages", suite in E major for orchestra Op.79 are premiered. The composer conducts the works at the annual Russian Symphony Concerts at Saint Petersburg.
 * January 16 - Reinhold Gliere's Symphony No 1 in E-flat major, Op. 8 premiers in Moscow
 * January 28 - Ernani, an opera by Giuseppe Verdi, receives its first New York performance at the Metropolitan Opera.
 * January - The New York Philharmonic Society dispenses with having a regular music director due to declining sales. Walter Damrosch leaves, and the next three seasons are handled by guests conductors.
 * February 11 – Anton Bruckner's unfinished 9th Symphony is posthumously premiered in Vienna. Te Deum substitutes unfinished last movement of the symphony.
 * February 23 – March 8 – George Enescu conducts the world premieres of three of his works, the Suite No. 1 for orchestra, op. 9, in C major, and the two Romanian Rhapsodies, op. 11, in A major and D major, as part of a concert at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest.
 * March 21 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's oratorio La Vita Nuova premiers in Munich
 * April 30 - Victor cuts its first Red Seal recordings. Soprano Ada Crossley records music at the Cornegie Hall studio, New York City.
 * May 5 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's trilogy The Song of Hiawatha receives its first American performance as Charles E. Knauss conducts the Orpheus Oratorio Society in Easton, Pennsylvania
 * September 9 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's sacred cantata The Atonement, Op. 53 receives its first performance at the Hereford Festival in Hereford, England.
 * September – Frederick Delius marries Jelka Rosen.
 * October 8 - Carl Nielsen's overture Helios premieres in Copenhagen, the composer conducting.
 * October 13 - Victor Herbert's Babes in Toyland premieres.
 * October 14 - The Apostles by Edward Elgar receives its world premiere at the Birmhingham Festival in England
 * November 23 - Enrico Caruso makes his debut with the Metropolitan Opera, New York, singing the role of the Duke of Manrua in Rigoletto.
 * November 25 - Soprano Olive Fremstad debuts at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, as Sieglinde in Die Walküre.
 * Enrico Caruso makes first records for the Victor Talking Machine Company.
 * Mississippi John Hurt begins performing.
 * Charles W. Clark is the first American to give a concert at the Paris National Conservatoire of Music, an honor that had not been given to an American in seventy years of those concerts.

Published popular music

 * "Always In The Way" w.m. Charles K. Harris
 * "Always Leave Them Laughing When You Say Goodbye" w.m. George M. Cohan
 * "Are We To Part Like This?" w.m. Harry Castling & Charles Collins
 * "Anona" w.m. Vivian Grey
 * "Bedelia" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous" w.m. Dan McAvoy
 * "The Burning of Rome" by E. T. Paull
 * "By The Sycamore Tree" w. George V. Hobart m. Max Hoffmann
 * "Congo Love Song" w.m. Bob Cole & J. Rosamond Johnson
 * "Daisy Donahue" w. James O'Dea m. Robert J. Adams
 * "Dear Old Girl" w. Richard Henry Buck m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "Dear Sing Sing" Schwartz
 * "Down At The Old Bull And Bush" w.m. Florrie Forde
 * "Flowers Of Dixieland" w. Edgar Smith m. J. Rosamond Johnson
 * "General Hardtack On Guard" w.m. Dave Reed Jr
 * "Good-bye, Eliza Jane" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "Hamlet Was A Melancholy Dane" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "Hannah!" by Joseph Farrell
 * "He Was A Sailor" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "Hurrah For Baffin's Bay" w. Vincent Bryan m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "I Can't Do The Sum" w. Glen MacDonough m. Victor Herbert
 * "I Could Love You In A Steam Heat Flat" w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen
 * "I Never Could Love Like That" Bowman, Johns
 * "Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider" w. Eddie Leonard m. Eddie Munson
 * "I'm A Jonah Man" w.m. Alex Rogers
 * "I'm On The Water Wagon Now" w. Paul West m. John Walter Bratton
 * "I'm Thinking Of You All The While" Reed Jnr
 * "I'm Wearing My Heart Away For You" w.m. Charles K. Harris
 * "In The Village By The Sea" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Stanley Crawford
 * "Indolence" Jason Mathews
 * "Is Your Mother In, Molly Malone?" w.m. A. J. Mills & George Everard
 * "It Takes the Irish to Beat the Dutch" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "It Was The Dutch" w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen
 * "It's The Man In The Sailor Suit" w. Fred C. Farrell m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "Jack Tar March" by John Philip Sousa
 * "Julie" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "Lazy Moon" w. Bob Cole m. J. Rosamond Johnson
 * "Like A Star That Falls From Heaven" w. Arthur Lamb m. Kerry Mills
 * "Little Yellow Bird" w.m. C. W. Murphy & William Hargreaves
 * "The Maid Of Timbucktoo" w. James Weldon Johnson m. Bob Cole
 * "The March Of The Toys" m. Victor Herbert
 * "Main Gazebo" Chris Praetorius
 * "Mary Ellen" Bryan, Lemonier
 * "Melody Of Love" w. Tom Glazer m. H. Engelmann
 * "The Military Band" m. Victor Herbert
 * "Moriaty" w. Charles Horwitz m. Fred V. Bowers
 * "Mother O' Mine" w. Rudyard Kipling m. Frank E. Tours
 * "My Cosy Corner Girl" w. Charles Noel Douglas m. John Walter Bratton
 * "My Hula Lula Girl" by Jean Schwartz & William Jerome
 * "My Little Coney Isle" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "My Little Creole Babe" w.m. Maude Nugent
 * "My Little 'Rang Outang" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "Navajo" w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne
 * "An Old Man's Darling" w.m. Fred Murray & George Everard
 * "Only a Dream of the Golden Past" w. Alfred Bryan m. Stanley Crawford
 * "Out Where the Breakers Roar" w. Harlow Hyde m. H. W. Petrie
 * "Over the Pilsner Foam" w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen
 * "Palm Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin
 * "Please Mother, Buy Me a Baby" w.m. Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards
 * "The Saftest of the Family" w. Harry Lauder & Bobry Beaton m. Harry Lauder
 * "Save It for Me" w. James Weldon Johnson m. Bob Cole
 * "Spring Beautiful Spring" m. Paul Lincke
 * "Summer Breeze March & Two-Step" by James Scott
 * "There's a Little Street in Heaven That They Call Broadway" w. Jack T. Waldron & A. Baldwin Sloane m. A. Baldwin Sloane
 * "Toyland" w. Glen MacDonough m. Victor Herbert
 * "The Toymaker's Shop" m. Victor Herbert
 * "Two Eyes Of Blue" w. George H. Taylor m. Leslie Stuart
 * "Two Eyes Of Brown" w. Edward Madden m. Stephen Howard
 * "Under A Panama" w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen
 * "Under the Anheuser Bush" w.m. Andrew B. Sterling & Harry Von Tilzer
 * "Up In A Coconut Tree" w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "Upper Broadway After Dark" w. Edward Gardinier m. Maurice Levi
 * "When I'm Away From You Dear" w.m. Paul Dresser
 * "The Woodchuck Song" w. Robert Hobart Davis m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "The Wreck Of The Old '97" w.m. Henry C. Work
 * "Your Dad Gave His Life For His Country" w. Harry J. Breen m. T. Mayo Geary
 * "You're The Flower Of My Heart, Sweet Adeline" w. Richard H. Gerard m. Henry W. Armstrong

Recorded popular music

 * "Always In The Way" (w.m. Charles K. Harris) – Byron G. Harlan on Edison Records
 * "Any Rags?" (w.m. Thomas S. Allen) – Arthur Collins on Edison
 * "The Arrow And The Song" (w. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow m. Michael William Balfe) – Herbert Goddard on Victor Records
 * "Badinage" (m. Victor Herbert) –  Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
 * "Bedelia" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz) – George J. Gaskin on Columbia Records –  Edward M. Favor on Columbia –  Billy Murray on Edison
 * "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous" (w.m. Dan McAvoy) – Edward M. Favor on Edison –  Dan W. Quinn on Victor
 * "Blaze Away" (m. Abe Holzmann) – banjos Vess L. Ossman & Bill Farmer on Victor
 * "Blaze Away" (m. Abe Holzmann) –  Kendle's Band on Victor
 * "By The Sycamore Tree" (w. George V. Hobart m. Max Hoffmann) – Harry Macdonough on Edison –  Bob Roberts on Columbia –  Billy Murray on Victor
 * "Come Down Ma' Evenin' Star" (w. Robert B. Smith m. John Stromberg) – Mina Hickman on Victor
 * "Congo Love Song" (w.m. Bob Cole & J. Rosamond Johnson) – Harry Macdonough on Edison –  Mina Hickman on Victor
 * "Could You Be True To Eyes Of Blue If You Looked Into Eyes Of Brown?" (w.m. Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards) – Harry Macdonough on Victor
 * "The Country Girl" (w. Stanislaus Stange m. Julian Edwards) – Vesta Victoria on Gramophone Records
 * "Didn't Know Exactly What To Do" (w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders) – Edward M. Favor on Edison
 * "Down On The Farm" (w. Raymond A. Browne m. Harry Von Tilzer) – Franklyn Wallace on Edison
 * "Flowers Of Dixieland" (w. Edgar Smith m. J. Rosamond Johnson) – Franklyn Wallace on Edison
 * "The Gambling Man(1)" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz) – Silas Leachman on Victor
 * "Good-bye, Eliza Jane" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer) – Arthur Collins on Edison
 * "Hamlet Was A Melancholy Dane" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz) – Edward M. Favor on Edison
 * "He Ought To Have A Tablet In The Hall of Fame" (w. Arthur L. Robb m. John Walter Bratton) – Edward M. Favor on Edison
 * "He Was A Sailor" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz) – Collins & Harlan on Edison
 * "Heidelberg Stein Song" (w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders) – Harry Macdonough on Edison & Victor
 * "Hiawatha" (w. James O'Dea m. Neil Moret) –  Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison –  Harry Macdonough on Edison –   Metropolitan Orchestra on Victor –   Sousa's Band on Victor
 * "Hurrah For Baffin's Bay" (w. Vincent Bryan m. Theodore F. Morse) – Collins & Harlan on Edison –  Dan W. Quinn on Victor
 * "I Could Love You In A Steam Heat Flat" (w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen) – Harry West on Edison
 * "I Like You, Lil, For Fair" (Ade, Loraine) – Billy Murray on Victor
 * "I Never Could Love Like That" (Bowman, Johns) – Billy Murray on Victor
 * "I Want To Be A Lidy" (w. George Dance m. George Dee) –  Clarke's Band Of Providence on Victor
 * "I Wonder Why Bill Bailey Don't Come Home" (w.m. Frank Fogerty, Matt C. Woodward & William Jerome) – Arthur Collins on Victor & Edison
 * "I'll Wed You In The Golden Summertime" (w. Alfred Bryan m. Stanley Crawford) – John H. Bieling & Harry Macdonough on Victor
 * "I'm A Jonah Man" (w.m. Alex Rogers) – Dan W. Quinn on Victor –  Arthur Collins on Edison & Victor
 * "I'm Thinking Of You All The While" (Reed Jnr) – Billy Murray on Victor
 * "I'm Wearing My Heart Away For You" (w.m. Charles K. Harris) – Harry Macdonough & John H. Bieling on Victor
 * "In Silence" (w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane) – Arthur Clifford on Edison
 * "In The City Of Sighs And Tears" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Kerry Mills) – J. W. Myers on Victor
 * "In the Good Old Summer Time" (w. Ren Shields m. George "Honey Boy" Evans) – Haydn Quartet on Victor –  S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough with  Sousa's Band on Victor –  Harry Macdonough on Victor
 * "In The Sweet Bye And Bye" (w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry Von Tilzer) – J. Aldrich Libbey on Edison
 * "In The Village By The Sea" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Stanley Crawford) – Byron G. Harlan on Edison
 * "It Takes The Irish To Beat The Dutch" (w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse) – Billy Murray on Victor Monarch
 * "It Was The Dutch" (w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen) – Collins & Harlan on Edison
 * "Juanita" (w. Caroline Norton m. trad Sp.) – Haydn Quartette on Victor
 * "Julie" (w. Wiliam Jerome m. Jean Schwartz) – Edward M. Favor on Edison
 * "Just For Tonight(1)" (w.m. Frank O. French) – Albert C. Campbell on Edison
 * "The Leader Of The Frocks And Frills" (w. Robert B. Smith m. Melville Ellis) –  Clarke's Band of Providence on Victor
 * "Like A Star That Falls From Heaven" (w. Arthur Lamb m. Kerry Mills) – Joe Natus on Victor
 * "The Maid Of Timbucktoo" (w. James Weldon Johnson m. Bob Cole) – Harry Macdonough on Edison
 * "Massa's In De Cold Ground" (w. m. Stephen Collins Foster) – Edison Male Quartette on Edison
 * "Meet Me When The Sun Goes Down" (w. Vincent Bryan m. Harry von Tilzer) – William H. Thompson (singer) on Victor
 * "Melody Of Love" (w. Tom Glazer m. H. Engelmann) –  Edison Symphony Orchestra on Edison
 * "The Message Of The Rose" (w. Will A. Heelan m. Leo Edwards) – George Seymour Lenox on Edison
 * "The Message Of The Violet" (w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders) – J. W. Myers on Victor
 * "Mighty Lak' A Rose" (w. Frank Lebby Stanton m. Ethelbert Nevin) – Arthur Clifford on Edison
 * "Moriaty" (w. Charles Horwitz m. Fred V. Bowers) – Collins & Harlan on Edison
 * "My Cosy Corner Girl" (w. Charles Noel Douglas m. John Walter Bratton) – Henry Burr on Columbia –  Harry Macdonough on Edison
 * "My Little Coney Isle" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer) – Harry Tally on Edison
 * "My Little 'Rang Outang" (Madden, Morse) – Billy Murray on Victor
 * "My Own United States" (w. Stanislaus Stange m. Julian Edwards) – J. W. Myers on Victor
 * "My Sulu Lulu Loo" (w. George Ade m. Nat D. Mann) –  Clarke's Band Of Providence on Victor
 * "Only A Dream Of A Golden Past" (w. Alfred Bryan m. Stanley Crawford) – Franklyn Wallace on Edison
 * "Out Where The Breakers Roar" (w. Harlow Hyde m. H. W. Petrie) – Frank C. Stanley on Edison
 * "Please Mother, Buy Me A Baby" (w.m. Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards) – Byron G. Harlan on Victor & Edison
 * "Pretty Little Dinah Jones" (w.m. J. B. Mullen) – Harry Macdonough on Edison
 * "R-E-M-O-R-S-E" (w. George Ade m. Alfred G. Wathall) – Joe Natus on Victor
 * "Sal" (w.m. Paul Rubens) – Madge Crichton with  piano Landon Ronald on Gramophone & Typewriter Records
 * "Sammy" (w. James O'Dea m. Edward Hutchinson) – Harry Macdonough on Edison
 * "Sammy" (w. James O'Dea m. Edward Hutchinson) – Henry Burr on Columbia
 * "Sly Musette" (w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane) – Harry Macdonough on Edison
 * "Tell Me Dusky Maiden" (w. James Weldon Johnson & Bob Cole m. J. Rosamond Johnson) – S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough on Victor
 * "Then I'd Be Satisfied With Life" (w.m. George M. Cohan) – Edward M. Favor on Edison
 * "There's One In A Million Like You" (w. Grant Clarke m. Jean Schwartz) – Walter Van Brunt on Edison
 * "Two Eyes Of Blue" (w. George H. Taylor m. Leslie Stuart) – Harry Macdonough on Victor –  Mina Hickman on Victor
 * "Under The Bamboo Tree" (w.m. Bob Cole & J. Rosamond Johnson) – Mina Hickman on Victor
 * "Up In A Coconut Tree" (Madden, Morse) – Billy Murray on Victor Monarch
 * "Upper Broadway After Dark" (w. Edward Gardinier m. Maurice Levi) – Edward M. Favor on Edison
 * "The Vacant Chair" (w. Henry S. Washburne m. George Frederick Root) – Byron G. Harlan on Edison
 * "Wait At The Gate For Me" (w. Ren Shields m. Theodore F. Morse) – J. W. Myers on Victor
 * "What's The Matter With The Moon Tonight?" (w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane) – Arthur Clifford on Edison
 * "When The Fields Are White With Cotton" (w. Robert F. Roden w. Max S. Witt) – Franklyn Wallace on Edison
 * "When We Were Two Little Boys" (w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse) – Billy Murray on Victor

Classical music

 * Hakon Borresen – Romance for Cello and Piano/Orchestra
 * Vincent d'Indy - Choral varié, for saxophone/viola and orchestra, Op. 55,
 * Frederick Delius – Sea Drift
 * Edward Elgar – The Apostles (oratorio)
 * George Enescu –
 * Piano Suite No. 2 in D major, Op. 10 ("Des cloches snores")
 * Sérénade lointaine for piano, violin, and cello
 * Joseph Holbrooke – The Bells
 * Joseph Jongen – Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1
 * Carl Nielsen – Helios Overture
 * Ludolf Nielsen – Symphony No.1, Op.3
 * Vítězslav Novák – Slovak Suite
 * Maurice Ravel – String Quartet in F
 * Max Reger – Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme, Op.73
 * Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Christmas Eve (suite)
 * Albert Roussel - Résurrection, Prelude for orchestra Op. 4
 * Alexander Scriabin
 * 8 Études for piano, Op. 42
 * Le divin poème (The Divine Poem), Symphony No. 3 in C minor
 * Charles Villiers Stanford – String Quintet No.1, Op.85 (dated April 21, Malvern)
 * Richard Strauss - Symphonia domestica
 * Francesco Paolo Tosti – Seconda mattinata
 * Ángel Gregorio Villoldo – El Choclo
 * Alexander von Zemlinsky – Die Seejungfrau

Opera

 * Eugen d'Albert – Tiefland premiered on 15 November at the Neues Deutsches Theater, Prague
 * Thomas O'Brien Butler – Muirgheis (first Irish opera) produced in Dublin on 7 December
 * Ernest Chausson – Le roi Arthus, first performance at the Theatre de la Monnaie, Brusseles on 30 November
 * César Cui – Mam'zelle Fifi premiers in Moscow on 17 January
 * Vincent d'Indy – L'étranger, premiers at the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels on 7 January
 * Edmund Eysler – Bruder Straubinger premiered on 20 February at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna
 * Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari – Le donne curiose premiers at the Residenztheater in Munich on 27 November
 * Umberto Giordano – Siberia premiers at Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 19 December
 * Alexander Gretchaninov – Dobrynya Nikitich premiered on 27 October at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscov
 * Scott Joplin – A Guest of Honor (lost)
 * Mykola Lysenko – Taras Bulba premiers on 20 December in Kiev
 * Juan Manén – Giovanni di Napoli
 * Emile Pessard – L'Épave premiered on 17 February at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, Paris
 * Sergei Vassilenko –  ("Tale of the Great City of Kitezh and the Quiet Lake Svetoyar") first staged version is produced in Moscow (originally a cantata, Op. 5)

Dance

 * January 12 - The Devil's Forge is produced by the Alhambra Ballet, London. Choreography by Lucia Cormani, the new prima ballerina, and music by George Byng.
 * May 7 - Carmen, a new ballet by Alhambra Ballet premiers in London. Lucia Cormani choreographs music by Georges Bizet.

Musical theater

 * Babes In Toyland Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on October 13 and ran for 192 performances
 * The Cherry Girl London production opened at the Vaudeville Theatre on December 29 and ran for 215 performances
 * The Duchess of Dantzig London production opened at the Lyric Theatre on October 17 and ran for 236 performances
 * The Earl and the Girl London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on December 10 and transferred to the Lyric Theatre on September 12, 1904, for a total run of 371 performances
 * The Fisher Maiden (Music: Harry von Tilzer) Broadway production opened at the Victoria Theater on October 5 and ran for 32 performances. Starring Al Shean, George A. MacFarlane, Edna Bronson, Bessie Tannehill, Dorothy Jardon and Frances Cameron.
 * In Dahomey Broadway production opened at the New York Theatre on February 18 and ran for 53 performances
 * In Dahomey London production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on May 16 and ran for 251 performances
 * The Jersey Lily Broadway production opened at the Victoria Theater on September 14 and ran for 24 performances
 * Madame Sherry Vienna production
 * Madame Sherry London production opened at the Apollo Theatre on December 23
 * The Medal and the Maid London production opened at the Lyric Theatre on April 25
 * My Lady Molly London production opened at Terry's Theatre on March 14
 * The Orchid London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on October 26 and ran for 559 performances
 * A Princess of Kensington London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on January 22 and ran for 115 performances
 * The Rogers Brothers In London Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on September 7 and ran for 64 performances
 * The School Girl London production opened on May 9 at the Prince of Wales Theatre and ran for 333 performances.
 * Three Little Maids Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on September 1 and ran for 130 performances
 * The Wizard of Oz Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on January 21 and ran for 293 performances

Published Writings

 * Hermann Abert – Robert Schumann
 * Hector Berlioz – Lettres inédites de Hector Berlioz à Thomas Gounet
 * Vsevolod Cheshikhin – History of Russian Opera from 1674 to 1903
 * Theodor von Frimmel – Ludwig van Beethoven
 * Francis Williams Galpin – The Whistles and Reed Instruments of the American Indians
 * George Grove – The Life and Letters of George Grove
 * Rupert Hughes – Music Lovers' Encyclopedia (final version published 1912)
 * Tobias Matthay – The Act of Touch in All its Diversity (piano practice)
 * Alphonse Mustel – L'Orgue-Expressif ou Harmonium
 * Julius Friedrich Sachse – The Music of the Ephrata Cloister
 * G. Schirmer – The Piano Teacher's Guide
 * Auguste Tolbecque – L'art du luthier

Births

 * January 4 – Carroll Gibbons, bandleader and composer (d. 1954)
 * January 6 - Maurice Abravanel - Greek conductor (d. 1993)
 * January 10 - Jean Paul Morel - French conductor (d. 1975)
 * January 19
 * Boris Blacher - Chinese conductor (d. 1975)
 * Ervin Nyiregyházi - Jungarian pianist (d. 1987)
 * January 22 – Robin Milford, English composer and educator (d. 1959)
 * February 6 – Claudio Arrau, pianist (d. 1991)
 * February 10 – Abel Meeropol ('Lewis Allan'), American lyricist (d. 1986)
 * February 12 – Todd Duncan, American baritone, first Porgy in Porgy and Bess (d. 1998)
 * February 15 – Marie-Thérèse Gauley, French opera singer prominent at the Opéra-Comique (d. 1992)
 * March 10 – Bix Beiderbecke, jazz musician (d. 1931)
 * March 28 – Rudolf Serkin, Czech pianist of Russian parents (d. 1991)
 * April 3 – Bubber Miley, jazz trumpeter (d. 1932)
 * April 5 – Jimmy Campbell, songwriter (died 1967)
 * April 10 – Herbert Graf, Austrian opera producer (d. 1958)
 * April 17
 * Nicolas Nabokov, Russian composer (d. 1978)
 * Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (d. 1976)
 * April 21 – Issy Bonn, singer and actor (d. 1977)
 * May 3 – Bing Crosby, US singer and actor (d. 1977)
 * May 12
 * Lennox Berkeley, composer (d. 1989)
 * Verna Osborne, soprano (d. 2006)
 * May 20 – Jerzy Fitelberg, composer (d. 1951)
 * May 26 – Bob Hope, English-born US actor, comedian and singer (d. 2003)
 * May 28 – Walter Goehr, German composer (d. 1960)
 * June 4 – Yevgeny Mravinsky, Russian conductor and pianist (d. 1988)
 * June 6 – Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer and conductor (d. 1978)
 * June 18 – Jeanette MacDonald, US singer and actress (d. 1965)
 * June 26 – St. Louis Jimmy Oden, blues singer (d. 1977)
 * July 3
 * Dick Robertson, US singer (d. 1944?)
 * Daid Webster, Scottish opera administrator (d.1971)
 * July 4 – Peeters, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1986)
 * July 10 – Helen Pickens of the Pickens Sisters US singing group
 * July 16 – Carmen Lombardo, Canadian singer, composer and saxophonist (d. 1971)
 * August 4 – Helen Kane, US singer (d. 1966)
 * August 17 – Abram Chasins, American composer and pianist (d. 1987)
 * August 20 – António Fortunato de Figueiredo, conductor (d. 1981)
 * August 23 – William Primrose, Scottish violinist (d. 1982)
 * September 6 – Pál Kadosa, Hungarian composer and pianist (d. 1983)
 * September 11 – Theodor Adorno, German musician and philosopher (d. 1969)
 * September 15 – Roy Acuff, Country and Western singer (d. 1992)

 * October 1 (probable) – Vladimir Horowitz, pianist (d. 1989)
 * October 10 – Vladimir Dukelsky aka Vernon Duke, composer (d. 1969)
 * October 16
 * Lena Machado, singer (d. 1974)
 * Big Joe Williams, blues guitarist (d. 1982)
 * October 19 – Vittorio Giannini, neoromantic American composer (d. 1966)
 * October 29 – Yvonne Georgi, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1975)
 * November 6 – Asaf Messerer, Soviet dancer and ballet master (d. 1992)
 * December 5 – Johannes Heesters, all-round entertainer (d. 2011)
 * December 12 – Francisco Curt Lange, German musicologist
 * December 17 – Ray Noble, bandleader, composer and arranger (d. 1978)
 * date unknown – Caterina Jarboro, operatic soprano (d. 1986)

Deaths

 * January 28
 * Augusta Holmès, French composer, 55
 * Robert Planquette, French composer, 54
 * January 31 – Meyer Lutz, conductor and composer, 73
 * February 2 – Marc Burty, music teacher and composer, 75
 * February 17 – Joseph Parry, organist and composer, 61
 * February 22 – Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer, 62 (syphilis)
 * February 23 – Friedrich Grützmacher, cellist, 70
 * March – Eugène Cormon, French librettist, 92
 * March 5 – Thomas Ryan, viola and clarinet player, 75
 * March 14 – Ernest Legouvé, opera librettist (born 1807)
 * March 19 – Pista Dankó, "gypsy" bandleader and composer, 44
 * April 1 – 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
 * May 9 – Giuseppe Cremonini, operatic tenor, 36
 * May 15 – Sibyl Sanderson, operatic soprano, 38 (pneumonia)
 * June – Constance Bache, pianist, composer and music teacher, 57
 * June 29 – Rentarō Taki, Japanese pianist and composer, 23 (tuberculosis)
 * July 27 – Lina Sandell, Swedish poet and hymn-writer 70
 * July 28 – Rosine Stoltz, French mezzo-soprano 88
 * September 4 – Hermann Zumpe, conductor and composer, 53
 * September 28 – Samuel A. Ward, organist and composer, 55
 * December 12 – Christian Johansson, ballet dancer and teacher, 86
 * December 20 – Kornél Ábrányi, pianist and composer, 81

title: 1903 in music


text:
1902 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1902.

Specific locations

 * 1902 in Norwegian music

Events

 * January 25
 * Franz Schmidt's Symphony No. 1 in E Major premieres in Vienna
 * Alexander Scriabin's Symphony No. 2 in C Minor premieres with Anatoly Liadov conducting at the Russian Symphony Concerts in Saint Petersburg
 * February 18 – Jules Massenet's Le jongleur de Notre-Dame premieres at the Casino Monte Carlo
 * March 1 – Sergei Vassilenko's cantata Skazaniye o grade velikom Kitezhe i tikhom ozere Svetoyare (Tale of the Great City of Kitezh and the Quiet Lake Svetoyar) receives its first performance in Moscow
 * March 8 – Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Symphony No. 2 in Helsinki
 * March 9 – Austrian composer Gustav Mahler (41) marries his student Alma Maria Schnidler (23)
 * March 10 – Ralph Vaughan Williams' four-movement orchestral Bucolic Suite premieres in Bournemouth, England
 * March 18 – Arnold Schoenberg's string sextet Verklärte Nacht receives its world premiere in Vienna, by the Rose String Quartet with two players from the Vienna Philharmonic
 * April 5 – Maurice Ravel's Jeux d'eau is premiered by pianist Ricardo Vines at the Societe Nationale de Musique in Paris
 * April 9 – One-act opera by Ethel Smyth Der Wald to her own libretto premieres in Berlin
 * April 11
 * Tenor Enrico Caruso makes the first million-selling recording, of "Vesti la giubba", for the Gramophone Company in Milan
 * Cambridge University bestows the honorary degree of Doctor of Music upon American composer Horatio Parker
 * April 12 – The zarzuela Los amores de la Inés by Manuel de Falla and Amadeo Vives to a libretto by Emilio Dugi premieres at the Teatro Comico in Madrid
 * April 18 – The cantata The Celestial Country by Charles Ives receives its first performance at Central Presbyterian Church, New York City
 * April 30 – Claude Debussy's only opera Pelléas et Mélisande is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, with André Messager conducting
 * May 17 – Pianist and conductor Alfred Cortot, after studying the music of Richard Wagner at Bayreuth in 1898, conducts the French premiere of Götterdämmerung at the Theatre du Chateau d'Eau
 * June 9 – The first complete performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3 is given in Krefeld (the longest symphony in the standard repertoire – 90 minutes)
 * June 26 – Composer Hubert Parry receives a baronetcy in the 1902 Coronation Honours; another, Charles Villiers Stanford, is knighted
 * August 17 – Camille Saint-Saens's incidental music Parysatis premieres at the Grand Roman Arena in Béziers, France
 * October 14 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Servilia premieres at the Imperial Opera in Saint Petersburg
 * November 26 – The opera Adriana Lecouvreur by Francesco Cilea premieres at the Teatro Lirico in Milan
 * November 28 – Carl Nielsen's first opera Saul og David is produced in Copenhagen (Denmark)
 * December 1 – Carl Nielsen conducts the premiėre of his Symphony No. 2, The Four Temperaments, in Copenhagen
 * December 16 – Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov's Potemkin Holiday is produced in Saint Petersburg
 * December 25 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Kashchei the Immortal premieres in Moscow
 * Lead Belly begins performing.
 * Walter Damrosch replaces Emil Paur as music director of the New York Philharmonic Society; his appointment lasts one season

Published popular music

 * "Any Rags?" w.m. Thomas S. Allen
 * "Because" w. Edward Teschemacher m. Guy d'Hardelot
 * "Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home" w.m. Hughie Cannon
 * "Come Down Ma' Evenin' Star" w. Robert B. Smith m. John Stromberg
 * "Could You Be True To Eyes Of Blue If You Looked Into Eyes Of Brown?" w.m. Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards
 * "Didn't Know Exactly What To Do" w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders
 * "Down On The Farm" w. Raymond A. Browne m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "Down The Line With Molly" w. George Totten Smith m. George L. Spaulding
 * "Down Where The Wurzburger Flows" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "The Entertainer" m. Scott Joplin
 * "The Face In The Firelight" w.m. Charles Shackford
 * "The Gambling Man" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "The Glow Worm" w. Lilla Cayley Robinson (Ger) Heinz Bolten-Backers m. Paul Lincke
 * "Happy Hooligan" m. Theodore Morse
 * "Have You Seen My Sweetheart In His Uniform Of Blue?" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
 * "Heidelberg Stein Song" w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders
 * "I Just Can't Help From Lovin' That Man" w. Andrew B. Sterling & Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry von Tilzer
 * "I Sing A Little Tenor" w. Harry Linton m. John Gilroy
 * "I Went To See Them March Away" w. S. E. Keisser m. R. J. Jose
 * "I Wonder Why Bill Bailey Don't Come Home" w.m. Frank Fogerty, Matt C. Woodward & William Jerome
 * "If Money Talks It Ain't On Speaking Terms With Me" w.m. J. Fred Helf
 * "I'll Be There Mary Dear" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
 * "I'll Be Waiting In The Gloaming, Sweet Genevieve" w.m. J. Fred Helf
 * "I'll Be Your Rain-beau" w. Ed Gardinier m. J. Fred Helf
 * "I'll Wed You In The Golden Summertime" w. Alfred Bryan m. Stanley Crawford
 * "I'm The Man Who Makes The Money In The Mint" w.m. Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards
 * "I'm Unlucky" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "I've Been Sleeping On The Floor All Night" w.m. T.W. Connor
 * "In Dear Old Illinois" by Paul Dresser
 * "In Silence" w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane
 * "In The City Of Sighs And Tears" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Kerry Mills
 * "In The Good Old Summer Time" w. Ren Shields m. George Evans. Introduced by Blanche Ring in the musical The Defender.
 * "In The Sweet Bye And Bye" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "In The Valley Of Kentucky" w.m. Tony Stanford
 * "It's A Nice Little Cosy Kitchen" w.m. T.W. Connor
 * "It's Got To Be A Minstrel Show Tonight" w. Ren Shields m. George Evans
 * "Jennie Lee" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "Just Can't Help From Lovin' That Man" w. Andrew B. Sterling & Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry von Tilzer
 * "Just For Tonight" w.m. Frank O. French
 * "Just Next Door" w.m. Charles K. Harris
 * "Kashmiri Song" w. Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Nicolson) 1901 m. Amy Woodforde-Finden
 * "Katrina" w.m. Edward W. Corliss
 * "Land Of Hope And Glory" w. Arthur C. Benson m. Edward Elgar
 * "The Leader Of The Frocks And Frills" w. Robert H. Smith m. Melville Ellis
 * "Less Than The Dust" w. Laurence Hope m. Amy Woodforde-Finden
 * "Levee Rag" m. Charles Mullen
 * "The Mansion of Aching Hearts" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "May Sweet May" w. R. J. Jose m. Robert S. Roberts
 * "The Meaning Of USA" w.m. Raymond A. Browne
 * "Meet Me When The Sun Goes Down" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry von Tilzer
 * "The Message Of The Rose" w. Will A. Heelan m. Leo Edwards
 * "The Message Of The Violet" w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders
 * "Mister Dooley" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "My Sulu Lulu Loo" w. George Ade m. Nat D. Mann
 * "Nobody's Looking But The Owl And The Moon" w. Bob Cole & James Weldon Johnson m. J. Rosamond Johnson
 * "Nursery Rhymes" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "Oh! Didn't He Ramble" w.m. Bob Cole & J. Rosamond Johnson
 * "On A Sunday Afternoon" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "On The Day King Edward Gets His Crown On" w.m. Mark Lorne & Harry Pleon
 * "Paint Me A Picture Of Mama" w. Addison Burkhardt m. Raymond Hubbell
 * "The Passing Of Rag-Time" m. Arthur Pryor
 * "Pinky Panky Poo" w. Aaron S. Hoffman m. Andy Lewis
 * "The Plan of Love" m. Annie P. Lumsden
 * "Please Go 'Way And Let Me Sleep" w. Cecil Mack m. J. Tim Brymn
 * "Pomp and Circumstance" by Edward Elgar
 * "Pretty Little Dinah Jones" w.m. J. B. Mullen
 * "R-E-M-O-R-S-E" w. George Ade m. Alfred G. Wathall
 * "Rip Van Winkle Was A Lucky Man" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "Sal" w.m. Paul Rubens
 * "Sammy" w. James O'Dea m. Edward Hutchinson
 * "Since Sister Nell Heard Paderewski Play" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "Those Things Cannot Be Explained" w. Junie McCree m. Ben M. Jerome
 * "The Troubles Of Reuben And The Maid" w. J. Cheever Goodwin m. Maurice Levi
 * "Under The Bamboo Tree" w.m. Bob Cole & J. Rosamond Johnson
 * "Under the Double Eagle" by Josef Franz Wagner
 * "Wait At The Gate For Me" w. Ren Shields m. Theodore F. Morse
 * "What's The Matter With The Moon Tonight?" w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane
 * "When Kate And I Were Comin' Thro' The Rye" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "When The Fields Are White With Cotton" w. Robert F. Roden w. Max S. Witt
 * "When The Troupe Gets Back To Town" w. George Totten Smith m. Harry von Tilzer
 * "Where The Sunset Turns The Ocean's Blue To Gold" w. Eva Fern Buckner m. Henry W. Petrie

Recorded popular music

 * "Arkansaw Traveler" – Len Spencer
 * "In the Good Old Summer Time" – William Redmond

Classical music

 * Granville Bantock – The Witch of Atlas
 * Bela Bartok - Scherzo Burlesque for Piano and Orchestra, Op.2
 * Georgy Catoire – Piano Trio in F minor, Op.14
 * Edward Elgar – Dream Children, Op. 43
 * Alexander Glazunov –
 * From the Middle Ages
 * Symphony No. 7, Op. 77 (Pastoral)
 * Johannes Hanssen – Valdres March
 * Alfred Hill – Hinemoa
 * Joseph Jongen – Piano Quartet, Op.23
 * Scott Joplin
 * A Breeze from Alabama
 * Cleopha
 * Elite Syncopations
 * The Entertainer
 * I Am Thinking of My Pickanniny Days
 * March Majestic
 * The Ragtime Dance
 * The Strenuous Life
 * Stephan Krehl – Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, Op.19
 * Mykola Lysenko – 3 Pieces from 'Album from the Summer of 1902', Op.41
 * Vítězslav Novák – In the Tatra Mountains
 * Max Reger – 16 Gesänge, Op.62
 * Camille Saint-Saëns - Cello concerto No.2 in D Minor for cello and orchestra
 * Franz Schmidt - Symphony No. 1 in E major premiers in Vienna (January 25, 1902)
 * Jean Sibelius – Symphony No. 2, Op. 43
 * Leone Sinigaglia – Variations on a Theme by Brahms, Op.22
 * Francisco Tárrega – Gran Vals
 * Ralph Vaughan Williams – Blackmwore by the Stour

Opera

 * Francesco Cilea – Adriana Lecouvreur
 * Claude Debussy – Pelléas et Mélisande
 * Manuel de Falla – Los amores de la Inés
 * Alberto Franchetti – Germania
 * Edward German – Merrie England
 * Reynaldo Hahn – La Carmélite
 * Engelbert Humperdinck – Dornröschen, premiered on November 12 in Frankfurt am Main
 * Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov – Potemkin Holiday
 * Franz Lehár – Der Rastelbinder, premiered on December 20 in Vienna
 * Jules Massenet – Le Jongleur de Notre Dame premiered on February 18 at the Theatre de Casino in Monte Carlo
 * Emile Pessard – L'armée des vierges premiered on October 15 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, Paris
 * Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Servilia
 * Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Kashchei the Immortal
 * George Stephanescu – Petra
 * Ethel Smyth – Der Wald premiered on April 9 in Berlin

Ballet

 * January 24 - Oskar Nedbal - Pohádka o Honzovi (The Tale of Honza) premieres at National theatre in Prague
 * February 2 - Alexander Gorsky's revised version of Don Quixote opens in Moscow. Based on a staging of the ballet by Marius Petipa from 1871
 * April 21 - In Japan is produced by the Alhambra Theater, London. Carlo Coppi choreographs music by Louis Ganne
 * June 16 - Carlo Coppi's last piece of choreography for London Alhambra Ballet - Britannia's Realm premiers on the occasion of King Edward's VII's coronation

Musical theater

 * Bob Herceg (Prince Bob) – by Jenö Huszka, with libretto by Ferenc Martos and Károly Bakonyi
 * A Country Girl London production opened at Daly's Theatre on January 18 and ran for 729 performances
 * The Defender (Music: Charles Dennée Book & Lyrics: Allen Lowe) Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on July 3 and ran for 60 performances. Starring Blanche Ring.
 * The Emerald Isle Broadway production
 * The Girl from Kays London production opened at the Apollo Theatre on November 15 and ran for 432 performances.
 * Madame Sherry Berlin and Paris productions
 * The Rogers Brothers At Harvard Broadway production
 * Three Little Maids London production opened at the Apollo Theatre on May 10 and transferred to the Prince of Wales Theatre on September 8 for a total run of 348 performances.
 * Tommy Rot Broadway production
 * The Toreador Broadway production
 * Twirly-Whirly Broadway production
 * The Wild Rose Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on May 5 and ran for 136 performances. Starring Eddie Foy, Albert Hart, Junie McCree, Irene Bentley, Marguerite Clark and Marie Cahill.

Births

 * January – Billy Pigg, Northumbrian piper (d. 1968)
 * January 6 - Mark Brunswick, American composer (d.1971)
 * January 9 - Rudolf Bing, Austrian operatic impresario (d.1997)
 * January 11
 * Evelyn Dove, British singer (d. 1987)
 * Maurice Duruflé, French composer (d. 1986)
 * January 21 – Webster Booth, English tenor (d. 1984)
 * February 26 – Rudolf Moralt, German conductor (d. 1958)
 * February 27 - Marian Anderson, American contralto (d.1993)
 * March 16 – Leon Roppolo, US jazz clarinetist (d. 1943)
 * March 21 – Son House, blues musician (d. 1988)
 * March 29
 * William Walton - British composer (d. 1983)
 * Mario Rossi - Italian conductor (d.1992)
 * March 31 – Hans Albrecht, musicologist (died 1961)
 * April 4 – Adam Adrio, German musicologist (d. 1973)
 * April 8
 * Maria Maksakova Sr. - Soviet opera singer (d. 1974)
 * Josef Krips - Austrian conductor (d.1974)
 * April 24 – Rube Bloom, US pianist and composer (d. 1976)
 * April 26 – Walter Dana, polka-music promoter (d. 2000)
 * May 1 – Sonnie Hale, English actor and singer (d. 1959)
 * May 7 – Marcel Poot, Belgien composer (d. 1988)
 * May 11 – Bidu Sayão, Brazilian opera singer (d. 1999)
 * May 17
 * Werner Egk, German composer (d. 1983)
 * Max Lorenz, German tenor (d. 1975)
 * May 18 – Meredith Willson, US composer (d. 1984)
 * May 18 – Henri Sauguet, French composer (d. 1989)
 * May 19 – Lubka Kolessa, pianist and music teacher (d. 1997)
 * May 31 – Billy Mayerl, English pianist, composer and conductor (d. 1959)
 * June 2 – Rosa Rio, American organist and composer (d. 2010)
 * June 6 – Jimmie Lunceford, bandleader (d. 1947)
 * June 13 - Oliviero De Fabritiis, Italian conductor and composer (d. 1982)
 * June 15 - Max Rudolf, German conductor (d.1995)
 * June 17
 * Vivian Duncan, singer, songwriter and actress, member of the Duncan Sisters (d. 1986)
 * Sammy Fain, US composer (d. 1989)
 * June 19 – Guy Lombardo, bandleader (d. 1977)
 * June 21 – Skip James, blues musician (d. 1969)
 * June 26 - Hugues-Adhemar Cuenod, Swiss tenor (d.2010)
 * July 7 – Karl Gustav Fellerer, musicologist (died 1984)
 * July 19 – Buster Bailey, jazz clarinetist (d. 1967)
 * July 20 – Jimmy Kennedy, Irish-born British songwriter (d. 1984)
 * July 21 – Omer Simeon, jazz musician (d. 1959)
 * August 6
 * Jim Davidson, Australian bandleader (d. 1982)
 * Margarete Klose, German contralto (d. 1968)
 * August 9
 * Zino Francescatti, violinist (d. 1991)
 * Solomon Cutner, English pianist (d. 1988)
 * August 25 – Stefan Wolpe, German composer (d. 1972)
 * October 25 – Eddie Lang, US jazz guitarist (d. 1933)
 * November 1 – Eugen Jochum, German conductor (d. 1987)
 * November 22
 * Ethel Smith, organist (d. 1996)
 * Emanuel Feuermann, Austrian cellist (d. 1942)
 * Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (d. 1999)
 * December 11 – Alfred Rosé, composer (died 1975)
 * December 15 – Mary Skeaping, British choreographer (d. 1984)
 * December 19 – Dusolina Giannini, Italian-American soprano (d. 1986)
 * December 27 – Sam Coslow, US songwriter and singer (d. 1982)

Deaths

 * January 7 – Wilhelm Hertz, lyricist (born 1835)
 * January 17 – Elias Blix, politician, poet and musician (b. 1836)
 * January 11 – James James, composer of the Welsh national anthem, "Hen Wlad fy Nhadau" (b. 1833)
 * January 18 – Filippo Marchetti, opera composer
 * January 20 – Camilla Urso, violinist (b. 1842)
 * February 1 – Salomon Jadassohn, composer and music teacher (b. 1831)
 * February 9 – Ludwig von Brenner, conductor and composer (b. 1833)
 * February 11 – Leonid Malashkin, conductor and composer (b. 1842)
 * April 21 – Ethna Carbery, songwriter (b. 1866)
 * June 17 – Karl Piutti, organist and composer (b. 1846)
 * June 20 – Caspar Joseph Brambach (b. 1833)
 * July 5 – John Stromberg, composer (b. 1858)
 * July 6 – Leopoldo Miguez, composer (b. 1850)
 * July 13 – Benjamin Bilse, conductor and composer (b. 1816)
 * August 3 – August Klughardt, conductor and composer (b. 1847)
 * August 11 – Charles E. Pratt, composer (born 1841)
 * August 23 - Teresa Stolz, Czech soprano (b. 1834)
 * September 7
 * Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, zarzuela writer (b. 1842)
 * Franz Wüllner, German conductor and composer (b. 1832)
 * September 11 – Émile Bernard, French composer and organist
 * September 26 – Camille D'elmar, actress and opera singer (b. 1861)
 * September 28 – Ion Ivanovici, bandleader and composer (b. 1845)
 * December 4 – Fyodor Ignat'yevich Stravinsky, Russian bass (b. 1843)
 * date unknown
 * Güllü Agop, Turkish theatre director
 * Jones Hewson, operatic baritone (b. 1874)
 * Franz Nachbaur, opera singer (b. 1835)
 * Ramon Delgado Palacios, Venezuelan pianist and composer
 * Cyrille Rose, clarinetist and teacher (b. 1830)

title: 1902 in music


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1901 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1901.

Specific locations

 * 1901 in Norwegian music

Events

 * January 13 – The New York Herald reviewing the work of Abe Holzmann, comments that "[h]is knowledge of bass and counterpoint is thorough, and his standard compositions bear the stamp of harmonic lore, which makes his proclivity for the writing of the popular style of music the more remarkable."
 * February 4 – Puccini's Tosca makes U.S. debut at Metropolitan Opera in New York
 * February 17 – Das klagende Lied, by Gustav Mahler, receives its world premiere by the Vienna Philharmonics in that city, Mahler conducting.
 * March 29
 * Alexander Scriabin's Symphony No.1 in E Minor, Op 26, is performed in its complete version in Moscow.
 * Verdi's funeral procession in Milan attracts a crowd of 300,000.
 * Jean de Reszke's final performance of the season with the Metropolitan Opera turns into his farewell performance with that company as he sings the title role in Richard Wagner's Lohengrin.
 * April 18 – Contralto Mariska Horvath marries politician J. Frank Aldrich.
 * April 29 – Tenor Jean de Reszke returns to the stage to sing the second act of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
 * May 3 – Marcel Dupré's oratorio Le songe de Jacob (La Vision de Jacob) premieres in France with Dupré playing the organ part himself.
 * May 17 - Benedictine monks of Solesmes are publicly lauded by Pope Leo XIII for their scholarly work on Gregorian chant.
 * June 1 – The classical music publishing firm Universal Edition is founded in Vienna.
 * June 20 – Edward Elgar's Cockaigne Overture receives its world premiere as Elgar conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra
 * June 23 – Ernest Bloch's symphonic Vivre Aimer premiers at the Second Festival of Swiss Music in Geneva
 * June 30 – Maurice Ravel scores third place in the annual Prix de Rome competition with the cantata Myrrha
 * September 20 – The German music periodical Die Musik, an illustrated journal, is published for the first time in Berlin.
 * October 3 – Eldridge Johnson establishes the Victor Talking Machine Company and is permitted to use the dog trademark "His Master's Voice"
 * October 15 – Geraldine Farrar makes her operatic debut in Berlin Royal Opera as Margueritte in Gounod's Faust
 * October 19 – Edward Elgar's first two Pomp and Circumstance marches premier in Liverpool
 * October 27 – Claude Debussy's Trois Nocturnes is given in its first complete performance as Camille Chevillard conducts the Lamoureux Orchestra in Paris.
 * October – The Columbia Phonograph Company issues the first recordings under its Climax label
 * October - The National Gramophone Company issues the first celebrity red-label disc featuring artists from the Russian Imperial Opera.
 * October - The International Zonophone Company is established
 * November 9 – First complete performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor in Moscow with author playing the solo part.
 * November 25 – Premiėre of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in G Major under the composer's baton in Munich.
 * December 9 – Violinist Jaroslav Kocián makes his debut at St James's Hall.
 * December 20 – Henry Hadley's Symphony No.2 (The Four Seasons) is performed by Emil Paur and the New York Symphony Orchestra.
 * Enrique Granados founds the Academia Granados in Spain.
 * Percy Grainger makes his recital debut.
 * Thirteen-year-old Agustín Barrios begins attending university in Asunción on a music scholarship.
 * Ragtime popularity grows.

Published popular music

 * "Ain't Dat A Shame" w. John Queen m. Walter Wilson
 * "All That Glitters Is Not Gold" w. George A. Norton m. James W. Casey
 * "Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat Is Home Sweet Home To Me" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "At The Pan-I-Marry-Can" w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon
 * "Baby Mine" w. Raymond A. Browne m. Leo Friedman
 * "The Billboard" m. John N. Klohr
 * "Blaze Away!" m. Abe Holzmann
 * "Coon, Coon, Coon" by Leo Friedman & Gene Jefferson
 * "The Country Girl"     w. Stanislaus Stange m. Julian Edwards
 * "Davy Jones' Locker"     w.m. H. W. Petrie
 * "Don't Put Me Off At Buffalo Any More"     w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "Down Where The Cotton Blossoms Grow"     w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
 * "Eyes Of Blue, Eyes Of Brown"     w.m. Costen & Andrew B. Sterling
 * "The Easy Winners" w. Scott Joplin
 * "Flora, I Am Your Adorer" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Charles Robinson
 * "The Fortune Telling Man" w.m. Bert Williams & George Walker
 * "Go Way Back And Sit Down" w. Elmer Bowman m. Al Johns
 * "Good Morning, Carrie" w. Cecil Mack m. Chris Smith & Elmer Bowman
 * "He Laid Away A Suit Of Gray To Wear The Union Blue" w. Edward M. Wickes m. Ben Jansen
 * "He Ought To Have A Tablet In The Hall of Fame" w. Arthur L. Robb m. John Walter Bratton
 * "Hello Central, Give Me Heaven" w.m. Charles K. Harris
 * "Hiawatha" w. James O'Dea m. Neil Moret Words written 1903.
 * "High Society" (march) by Porter Steele
 * "Hoity-Toity" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg
 * "Jagtime Johnson's Ragtime March" by Fred L. Ryder
 * "The Honeysuckle And The Bee" w. Albert H. Fitz m. William H. Penn
 * "I Ain't A-goin' To Weep No More" w. George Totten Smith m. Harry von Tilzer
 * "I Hate To Get Up Early In The Morning" w. John Queen m. Hughie Cannon
 * "I Love You Truly" w.m. Carrie Jacobs-Bond
 * "I Want To Be A Lidy" w. George Dance m. George Dee
 * "If You Love Your Baby, Make Dem Goo-Goo Eyes" w. Bert Williams m. George Walker
 * "I'll Be With You When The Roses Bloom Again" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
 * "I'm Tired" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "In The Shade Of The Palm" w.m. Leslie Stuart
 * "The Invincible Eagle March" w.m. John Philip Sousa
 * "It Seems Like Yesterday" w. Frederic Ranken m. Isidore Witmark
 * "I've Grown So Used To You" w.m. Thurland Chattaway
 * "Josephine, My Jo" w. Cecil Mack m. J. Tim Brymn
 * "Just Awearyin' for You" w. Frank Lebby Stanton m. Carrie Jacobs-Bond
 * "The Maiden With The Dreamy Eyes" w. James Weldon Johnson & Bob Cole m. J. Rosamond Johnson
 * "Mamie, Don't You Feel Ashamie" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
 * "Mighty Lak' A Rose" w. Frank Lebby Stanton m. Ethelbert Nevin
 * "My Castle On The Nile" w. Bob Cole & James Weldon Johnson m. J. Rosamond Johnson
 * "My Japanese Cherry Blossom" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg
 * "My Lady Hottentot" w. William Jerome m. Harry von Tilzer
 * "My Lonesome Little Louisiana Lady" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
 * "My Own United States" w. Stanislaus Stange m. Julian Edwards
 * "My Princess Zulu Lulu" w.m. Dave Reed Jr
 * "Nancy Brown" w.m. Clifton Crawford
 * "O Dry Those Tears!" w.m. Teresa del Riego
 * "Oh! Oh! Miss Phoebe" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer
 * "Panamericana" m. Victor Herbert
 * "The Phrenologist Coon" w. Ernest Hogan m. Will Accooee
 * "A Picture Without A Frame" w.m. Al Wilbur & Harry Jonnes
 * "Rusty Rags" Vess Ossman
 * "Sally's Sunday Hat" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
 * "Serenade" w. Jerry Gray & Herb Hendler m. Riccardo Drigo
 * Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose Carrie Jacobs-Bond
 * "She's Getting More Like The White Folks Every Day" w.m. Bert Williams & George Walker
 * "A Signal from Mars" by E. T. Paull
 * "Simple Little Sister Mary Green" w.m. Clifton Crawford
 * "Somehow It Made Him Think Of Home" w. Frederic Ranken m. Isidore Witmark
 * "Sunflower Slow Drag" m. Scott Joplin & Scott Hayden
 * "Sweet Annie Moore" by John H. Flynn
 * "Tact" w.m. Leslie Stuart
 * "The Tale Of A Bumble Bee" w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders
 * "Tell Me Dusky Maiden" w. James Weldon Johnson & Bob Cole m. J. Rosamond Johnson
 * "Tell Us Pretty Ladies" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg
 * "There's No North Or South Today" w.m. Paul Dresser
 * "Tobermory" w.m. Harry Lauder
 * "Way Down In Indiana" w.m. Paul Dresser
 * "Way Down Yonder In The Cornfield" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards
 * "We Shall Overcome" w. C. Albert Tindley Music 1794 "O Sanctissima".
 * "The Wedding Of Reuben And The Maid" (or "They were on their honeymoon") w. Harry B. Smith m. Maurice Levi
 * "When It's All Goin' Out And Nothin' Comin' In" w.m. Bert Williams & George Walker words revised by James W Johnson.
 * "When Mr Shakespeare Comes To Town" (or "I don't like them minstrel folks")w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz
 * "When The Boys Go Marching By" w.m. Charles W. Doty
 * "When Two Little Hearts Are One" w. Edgar Smith m. John Stromberg
 * "Where The Silv'ry Colorado Wends Its Way" w. C. H. Scoggins m. Charles Avril
 * "Zamona" w. Frederic Ranken m. William Loraine

Recorded popular music

 * "A German Minstrel" – George P. Watson on Edison Records
 * "Good Evening Carrie" – Dan W. Quinn
 * "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" – William Baird
 * "Just As the Sun Went Down" – J.J. Fisher on Consolidated Phonograph
 * "Ma Tiger Lily" – Arthur Collins on a Victor Monarch Record

Classical music

 * Hakon Børresen – String Sextet opus 5 in G major
 * Frank Bridge
 * Scherzo Phantastick
 * String Quintet in E minor (probably)
 * Berceuse for viola or cello and piano
 * André Caplet – Myrrha (cantata)
 * Claude Debussy
 * Chansons de Bilitis receives its first performance in Paris
 * Pour le piano
 * Ernő Dohnányi – Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 9
 * Felix Draeseke – String Quintet opus 77 in F major for two violins, viola and two cellos
 * Edward Elgar – Pomp and Circumstance Marches, no. 1 and 2
 * George Enescu –
 * Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A major, op. 11, no. 1
 * Romanian Rhapsody No. 2 in D major, op. 11, no. 2
 * Symphonie concertante for cello and orchestra in B minor, op. 8
 * Gabriel Faure's - orchestral suite Pelleas et Melisande premieres at the Concerts Lamoureux in Paris
 * Louis Glass - Symphony No.3, Op. 30 "The Forest Symphony"
 * Alexander Glazunov – Piano Sonatas 1 and 2 opus 74 and 75 in B-flat minor and E minor
 * Edvard Grieg – Lyric Pieces, Book X
 * Sergei Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
 * Maurice Ravel – Jeux d'eau
 * Ottorino Respighi – String Quintet for two violins, two violas and cello
 * Sergei Taneyev – String Quintet opus 14 in G major for two violins, viola and two cellos
 * Ludwig Thuille – Piano Quintet opus 20 in E-flat major

Opera

 * George W. Chadwick – Judith, premieres in a concert version at the Worcester, Massachusetts Music Festival, September 26
 * Cesar Cui – A Feast in Time of Plague, one-act opera is performed for the first time in Moscow, November 24
 * Frederick Delius – A Village Romeo and Juliet, premieres at Komische Oper Berlin on 21 February 1907
 * Antonín Dvořák – Rusalka, premieres at the National Opera House in Prague, March 31
 * Enrique Granados – Picarol, premieres at Teatre Líric Català de Barcelona, February 23
 * Pietro Mascagni – Le maschere, premieres simultaneously in six different Italien cities, January 17
 * Jules Massenet – Grisélidis, premieres at the Opera-Comique in Paris, November 20
 * Giacomo Orefice – Chopin, premieres at Teatro Lirico, Milan, November 25
 * Ignace Jan Paderewski – Manru, premieres at the Dresden Opera, May 29
 * Hans Pfitzner – Die Rose vom Liebesgarten, premieres in Elberfeld, Germany, November 9
 * Camille Saint-Saens – Les Barbares, produced at the Paris Opera, October 23
 * Charles Villiers Stanford – Much Ado About Nothing, premieres at Covent Garden, London, May 30
 * Richard Strauss – Feuersnot, premieres at the Konigliches Opernhouse in Dresden, November 21

Ballet

 * Soldiers of the Queen – ballet spectacle is produced at the Alhambra Theater in London, January 1
 * Leopold Wenzel - La Papillons - produced at the Empire Theater, London, March 18
 * Leo Delibes - Silvia is staged for the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg as a benefit for the ballerina Olga Preobrajenska, December 15

Musical theater

 * Blue Bell In Fairyland London production
 * A Chinese Honeymoon London production opened at the Strand Theatre on October 5 and ran for 1075 performances.
 * The Emerald Isle London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on April 27 and ran for 205 performances.
 * The Fortune Teller London production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on April 7.
 * Hoity-Toity Broadway revue opened at the Weber and Fields' Broadway Music Hall on September 5 and ran for 225 performances.
 * Kitty Grey London production opened at the Apollo Theatre on September 7 and ran for 220 performances.
 * The Little Duchess Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on October 14 and ran for 136 performances. Book and lyrics by Harry B. Smith, music by Reginald De Koven.
 * The Rogers Brothers In Washington Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on September 2 and ran for 49 performances
 * The Silver Slipper London production opened at the Lyric Theatre on June 1 and ran for 197 performances
 * The Supper Club Broadway production opened on December 23 at the Winter Garden Theatre and ran for 40 performances.
 * The Toreador London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on June 17

Births

 * January 22 – Hans Erich Apostel, composer (d. 1972)
 * February 2 – Jascha Heifetz, violinist (d. 1987)
 * February 9 – Sebastian Kunjukunju Bhagavathar, Malayalam actor, singer and author (d. 1985)
 * February 15 – Kokomo Arnold, blues musician (d. 1968)
 * March 21 – Nikos Skalkottas, Greek composer (d. 1949)
 * March 27 – Enrique Santos Discépolo, Argentinian tango musician, composer and writer (d. 1951)
 * April 9 – Arthur Briggs, jazz trumpeter (d. 1991)
 * May 7 – Marcel Poot, Belgian composer (d. 1988)
 * May 12 – Scrappy Lambert, US singer (d. 1987)
 * May 17 – Werner Egk, composer (d. 1983)
 * May 21 – Horace Heidt, US bandleader (d. 1986)
 * May 23 – Edmund Rubbra, composer (d. 1986)
 * May 30 – Frankie Trumbauer, US saxophonist, bandleader and singer (d. 1956)
 * June 6 – Véra Korène, actress and singer (d. 1996)
 * June 10 – Frederick Loewe, composer of musicals (d. 1988)
 * June 24 – Harry Partch, composer (d. 1974)
 * June 29 – Nelson Eddy, US singer and actor (d. 1967)
 * July 3 – Ruth Crawford Seeger, composer (d. 1953)
 * July 14 – Gerald Finzi, English composer (d. 1956)
 * July 16 – Fritz Mahler, Austrian conductor, a nephew of Gustav Mahler (d. 1973)
 * July 28 – Rudy Vallée, singer & bandleader (d. 1986)
 * August 4 – Louis Armstrong, jazz trumpeter, composer, bandleader, singer (d. 1971)
 * August 11 – Guido Agosti, Italian pianist and piano teacher (d. 1989)
 * August 16 – Olav Kielland, Norwegian composer and conductor (d. 1985)
 * August 17 – Henri Tomasi, French composer (d. 1971)
 * September 2 – Phil Napoleon, jazz trumpeter (d. 1990)
 * September 9 – James Blades, percussionist (d. 1999)
 * September 12 – Ernst Pepping, composer (d. 1981)
 * September 26 – Ted Weems, US bandleader (d. 1963)
 * October 2
 * Walther Aeschbacher, Swiss conductor and composer (d. 1969)
 * Alice Prin ("Kiki de Montparnasse"), entertainer (d. 1953)
 * October 7 – Ralph Rainger, US composer and pianist (d. 1942)
 * October 8 – Eivind Groven, composer (d. 1977)
 * October 18 – Annette Hanshaw, US singer (d. 1985)
 * October 20
 * Frank Churchill, US composer (d. 1942)
 * Adelaide Hall, US singer, actress and entertainer (d.1993)
 * November 1 – Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt German composer (d. 1988)
 * November 5 – Etta Moten Barnett, US contralto singer and actress (d. 2004)
 * November 21 – Giacomo Vaghi, Italian opera singer (d. 1978)
 * November 22 – Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (d. 1999)
 * December 22 – André Kostelanetz, conductor and arranger (d. 1980)
 * December 26 – Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer (d. 1947)
 * December 27 – Marlene Dietrich, German-American actress (d. 1992)

Deaths

 * January 11 – Vasily Kalinnikov, composer (b. 1866)
 * January 27 – Giuseppe Verdi, composer (b. 1813)
 * February 11 – Henry Willis, organ builder (b. 1821)
 * February 17 – Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, pianist and composer (b. 1862)
 * March 19 – Philippe Gille, librettist (b. 1831)
 * March 31 – Sir John Stainer, composer and organist (b. 1840)
 * April 3 – Richard D'Oyly Carte, producer of Gilbert & Sullivan (b. 1844)
 * April 14 – Alice Barnett, singer and actress (b. 1846)
 * May 2 – Franz Rummel, pianist (b. 1853)
 * May 9 – Gottfried von Preyer, conductor, composer and music teacher (b. 1807)
 * May 20 – Betty Fibichová operatic contralto (b. 1846)
 * June 14 – Ralph E. Hudson, American hymnwriter (b. 1843)
 * June 17 – Cornelius Gurlitt, composer (b. 1820)
 * June 23 – Charles Kensington Salaman, composer (b. 1814)
 * July 18 – Carlo Alfredo Piatti, cellist (b. 1822)
 * August 17 – Edmond Audran, composer (b. 1842)
 * August 24 – Gunnar Wennerberg, poet, politician and composer (b. 1817)
 * September 3 – Friedrich Chrysander, music historian and critic (b. 1826)
 * September 29 – Adelaide Borghi-Mamo, mezzo-soprano (b. 1826)
 * October 22 – Frederic Archer, organist, conductor and composer (b. 1838)
 * November 25 – Josef Rheinberger, Liechtensteinian organist and composer (b. 1839)
 * December 15 – Elias Álvares Lobo, composer (b. 1834)

title: 1901 in music