- Jan 25 Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St Petersburg
Le jongleur de Notre-Dame
Feb 18 Jules Massenet's opera "Le jongleur de Notre-Dame" ( The Hunchback of Notre Dame) premieres in Monte Carlo
Sibelius' 2nd Symphony
Mar 8 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony, his most popular, by the Helsinki Philharmonic Society
Verklärte Nacht
Mar 18 Arnold Schoenberg's "Verklärte Nacht" premieres in Vienna
Caruso Makes a Record
Mar 18 Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record
Pavane for A Dead Princess
Apr 5 Maurice Ravel's "Pavane pour une infante defunte (Pavane for A Dead Princess)" premieres in Paris, performed by Spanish pianist Ricardo Viñes
Pelléas et Mélisande
Apr 30 Claude Debussy's only completed opera "Pelléas et Mélisande" premieres at the Salle Favart in Paris by the Opéra-Comique, conducted by André Messager
- May 14 Italian tenor Enrico Caruso makes his Covent Garden debut opposite Nellie Melba in Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" in London
- Jun 16 "The Wizard of Oz" musical first opens in Chicago, Illinois
Monument to Rossini
Jun 23 Monument to composer Gioachino Rossini unveiled in Santa Croce, Florence, Italy
Wiener Frauen
Nov 25 Franz Lehar's opera "Wiener Frauen" premieres in Vienna
"The Entertainer"
Dec 29 Scot Joplin copyrights "The Entertainer" and several other piano rag compositions through the US Copyright Office
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