Editing 1903 in music (section)

==Events==
*[[January 1]] - The French government awards the [[Legion of Honour|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 [[Symphony No. 9 (Bruckner)|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 (Enescu)|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 Talking Machine Company|Victor]] cuts its first [[RCA Red Seal Records|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 (Coleridge-Taylor)|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 Overture|Helios]] premieres in [[Copenhagen]], the composer conducting.
*[[October 13]] - [[Victor Herbert]]'s ''[[Babes in Toyland (operetta)|Babes in Toyland]]'' premieres.
*[[October 14]] - [[The Apostles (Elgar)|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 [[Conservatoire de Paris|Paris National Conservatoire of Music]], an honor that had not been given to an American in seventy years of those concerts.