Editing 1903 in music

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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 [[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.

==Published popular music==
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* "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 (song)|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 (composer)|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 (songwriter)|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 (lyricist)|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 (composer)|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 (composer)|Bob Cole]]
* "The March Of The Toys" m. [[Victor Herbert]]
* "Main Gazebo" Chris Praetorius
* "Mary Ellen" Bryan, Lemonier
* "[[Melody of Love (song)|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 (lyricist)|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 (lyricist)|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 (vaudeville)|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 (composer)|Bob Cole]]
* "Spring Beautiful Spring" m. [[Paul Lincke]]
* "Summer Breeze March & Two-Step" by [[James Scott (musician)|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 (lyricist)|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]]
* "[[Sweet Adeline (song)|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]]) <br> –  [[Byron G. Harlan]] on [[Edison Records]]
* "Any Rags?" (w.m. [[Thomas S. Allen]]) <br> –  [[Arthur Collins (singer)|Arthur Collins]] on Edison
* "The Arrow And The Song" (w. [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]] m. [[Michael William Balfe]]) <br> –  [[Herbert Goddard]] on [[Victor Records]]
* "Badinage" (m. [[Victor Herbert]]) <br> –   Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison
* "Bedelia" (w. [[William Jerome]] m. [[Jean Schwartz]]) <br> –  George J. Gaskin on [[Columbia Records]]<br> –  [[Edward M. Favor]] on Columbia<br> –  [[Billy Murray (singer)|Billy Murray]] on Edison
* "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous" (w.m. [[Dan McAvoy]]) <br> –  Edward M. Favor on Edison<br> –  [[Dan W. Quinn]] on Victor
* "Blaze Away" (m. [[Abe Holzmann]]) <br> – banjos [[Vess L. Ossman]] & [[Bill Farmer]] on Victor
* "Blaze Away" (m. Abe Holzmann) <br> –   Kendle's Band on Victor
* "By The Sycamore Tree" (w. [[George V. Hobart]] m. [[Max Hoffmann]]) <br> –  [[Harry Macdonough]] on Edison<br> –  Bob Roberts on Columbia<br> –  Billy Murray on Victor
* "Come Down Ma' Evenin' Star" (w. [[Robert Bache Smith|Robert B. Smith]] m. [[John Stromberg]]) <br> –  [[Mina Hickman]] on Victor
* "Congo Love Song" (w.m. [[Bob Cole (songwriter)|Bob Cole]] & [[J. Rosamond Johnson]]) <br> –  Harry Macdonough on Edison<br> –  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 (vaudeville)|Gus Edwards]]) <br> –  Harry Macdonough on Victor
* "The Country Girl" (w. [[Stanislaus Stange]] m. [[Julian Edwards]]) <br> –  [[Vesta Victoria]] on [[Gramophone Records]]
* "Didn't Know Exactly What To Do" (w. [[Frank S. Pixley|Frank Pixley]] m. [[Gustav Luders]]) <br> –  Edward M. Favor on Edison
* "Down On The Farm" (w. [[Raymond A. Browne]] m. [[Harry Von Tilzer]]) <br> –  [[Franklyn Wallace]] on Edison
* "Flowers Of Dixieland" (w. [[Edgar Smith (librettist)|Edgar Smith]] m. J. Rosamond Johnson) <br> –  Franklyn Wallace on Edison
* "The Gambling Man(1)" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz) <br> –  [[Silas Leachman]] on Victor
* "Good-bye, Eliza Jane" (w. [[Andrew B. Sterling]] m. Harry Von Tilzer) <br> –  [[Arthur Collins (singer)|Arthur Collins]] on Edison
* "Hamlet Was A Melancholy Dane" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz) <br> –  Edward M. Favor on Edison
* "He Ought To Have A Tablet In The Hall of Fame" (w. [[Arthur L. Robb]] m. [[John Walter Bratton]]) <br> –  Edward M. Favor on Edison
* "He Was A Sailor" (w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz) <br> –  [[Collins & Harlan]] on Edison
* "Heidelberg Stein Song" (w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders) <br> –  Harry Macdonough on Edison & Victor
* "[[Hiawatha (A Summer Idyl)|Hiawatha]]" (w. James O'Dea m. Neil Moret) <br> –   Edison Grand Concert Band on Edison<br> –  Harry Macdonough on Edison<br> –   Metropolitan Orchestra on Victor<br> –   Sousa's Band on Victor
* "Hurrah For Baffin's Bay" (w. Vincent Bryan m. Theodore F. Morse) <br> –  [[Collins & Harlan]] on Edison<br> –  Dan W. Quinn on Victor
* "I Could Love You In A Steam Heat Flat" (w. [[Vincent Bryan]] m. [[J. B. Mullen]]) <br> –  [[Harry West]] on Edison
* "I Like You, Lil, For Fair" (Ade, Loraine) <br> –  Billy Murray on Victor
* "I Never Could Love Like That" (Bowman, Johns) <br> –  Billy Murray on Victor
* "I Want To Be A Lidy" (w. George Dance m. George Dee) <br> –   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) <br> –  Arthur Collins on Victor & Edison
* "I'll Wed You In The Golden Summertime" (w. [[Alfred Bryan (lyricist)|Alfred Bryan]] m. Stanley Crawford) <br> –  [[John H. Bieling]] & Harry Macdonough on Victor
* "I'm A Jonah Man" (w.m. Alex Rogers) <br> –  Dan W. Quinn on Victor<br> –  Arthur Collins on Edison & Victor
* "I'm Thinking Of You All The While" (Reed Jnr) <br> –  Billy Murray on Victor
* "I'm Wearing My Heart Away For You" (w.m. Charles K. Harris) <br> –  Harry Macdonough & John H. Bieling on Victor
* "In Silence" (w. [[Sydney Rosenfeld]] m. [[A. Baldwin Sloane]]) <br> –  [[Arthur Clifford]] on Edison
* "In The City Of Sighs And Tears" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Kerry Mills) <br> –  [[J. W. Myers]] on Victor
* "[[In the Good Old Summer Time]]" (w. [[Ren Shields]] m. [[George "Honey Boy" Evans]]) <br> –  [[The Haydn Quartet|Haydn Quartet]] on Victor<br> –  [[S. H. Dudley (singer)|S. H. Dudley]] & Harry Macdonough with  Sousa's Band on Victor<br> –  Harry Macdonough on Victor
* "In The Sweet Bye And Bye" (w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry Von Tilzer) <br> –  [[J. Aldrich Libbey]] on Edison
* "In The Village By The Sea" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. [[Stanley Crawford]]) <br> –  Byron G. Harlan on Edison
* "It Takes The Irish To Beat The Dutch" (w. [[Edward Madden (lyricist)|Edward Madden]] m. [[Theodore F. Morse]]) <br> –  Billy Murray on Victor Monarch
* "It Was The Dutch" (w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen) <br> –  Collins & Harlan on Edison
* "Juanita" (w. Caroline Norton m. trad Sp.) <br> –  Haydn Quartette on Victor
* "Julie" (w. Wiliam Jerome m. Jean Schwartz) <br> –  Edward M. Favor on Edison
* "Just For Tonight(1)" (w.m. [[Frank O. French]]) <br> –  Albert C. Campbell on Edison
* "The Leader Of The Frocks And Frills" (w. [[Robert Bache Smith|Robert B. Smith]] m. Melville Ellis) <br> –   Clarke's Band of Providence on Victor
* "Like A Star That Falls From Heaven" (w. [[Arthur J. Lamb|Arthur Lamb]] m. Kerry Mills) <br> –  [[Joe Natus]] on Victor
* "The Maid Of Timbucktoo" (w. [[James Weldon Johnson]] m. Bob Cole) <br> –  Harry Macdonough on Edison
* "Massa's In De Cold Ground" (w. m. [[Stephen Foster|Stephen Collins Foster]]) <br> –  Edison Male Quartette on Edison
* "Meet Me When The Sun Goes Down" (w. Vincent Bryan m. Harry von Tilzer) <br> –  [[William H. Thompson (singer)]] on Victor
* "Melody Of Love" (w. Tom Glazer m. H. Engelmann) <br> –   Edison Symphony Orchestra on Edison
* "The Message Of The Rose" (w. [[Will A. Heelan]] m. [[Leo Edwards (composer)|Leo Edwards]]) <br> –  [[George Seymour Lenox]] on Edison
* "The Message Of The Violet" (w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders) <br> –  J. W. Myers on Victor
* "[[Mighty Lak' A Rose]]" (w. [[Frank Lebby Stanton]] m. [[Ethelbert Nevin]]) <br> –  Arthur Clifford on Edison
* "Moriaty" (w. [[Charles Horwitz]] m. [[Fred V. Bowers]]) <br> –  Collins & Harlan on Edison
* "My Cosy Corner Girl" (w. [[Charles Noel Douglas]] m. John Walter Bratton) <br> –  [[Henry Burr]] on Columbia<br> –  Harry Macdonough on Edison
* "My Little Coney Isle" (w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer) <br> –  [[Harry Tally]] on Edison
* "My Little 'Rang Outang" (Madden, Morse) <br> –  Billy Murray on Victor
* "My Own United States" (w. Stanislaus Stange m. [[Julian Edwards]]) <br> –  J. W. Myers on Victor
* "My Sulu Lulu Loo" (w. George Ade m. Nat D. Mann) <br> –   Clarke's Band Of Providence on Victor
* "Only A Dream Of A Golden Past" (w. Alfred Bryan m. Stanley Crawford) <br> –  Franklyn Wallace on Edison
* "Out Where The Breakers Roar" (w. [[Harlow Hyde]] m. H. [[W. Petrie]]) <br> –  Frank C. Stanley on Edison
* "Please Mother, Buy Me A Baby" (w.m. [[Will D. Cobb]] & [[Gus Edwards (vaudeville)|Gus Edwards]]) <br> –  Byron G. Harlan on Victor & Edison
* "Pretty Little Dinah Jones" (w.m. J. B. Mullen) <br> –  Harry Macdonough on Edison
* "R-E-M-O-R-S-E" (w. George Ade m. [[Alfred G. Wathall]]) <br> –  Joe Natus on Victor
* "Sal" (w.m. [[Paul Rubens (composer)|Paul Rubens]]) <br> –  [[Madge Crichton]] with  piano [[Landon Ronald]] on [[Gramophone & Typewriter Records]]
* "Sammy" (w. James O'Dea m. Edward Hutchinson) <br> –  Harry Macdonough on Edison
* "Sammy" (w. James O'Dea m. Edward Hutchinson) <br> –  Henry Burr on Columbia
* "Sly Musette" (w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane) <br> –  Harry Macdonough on Edison
* "Tell Me Dusky Maiden" (w. James Weldon Johnson & Bob Cole m. J. Rosamond Johnson) <br> –  S. H. Dudley & Harry Macdonough on Victor
* "Then I'd Be Satisfied With Life" (w.m. [[George M. Cohan]]) <br> –  Edward M. Favor on Edison
* "There's One In A Million Like You" (w. [[Grant Clarke]] m. Jean Schwartz) <br> –  [[Walter Van Brunt]] on Edison
* "Two Eyes Of Blue" (w. George H. Taylor m. [[Leslie Stuart]]) <br> –  Harry Macdonough on Victor<br> –  Mina Hickman on Victor
* "Under The Bamboo Tree" (w.m. Bob Cole & J. Rosamond Johnson) <br> –  Mina Hickman on Victor
* "Up In A Coconut Tree" (Madden, Morse) <br> –  Billy Murray on Victor Monarch
* "Upper Broadway After Dark" (w. Edward Gardinier m. Maurice Levi) <br> –  Edward M. Favor on Edison
* "The Vacant Chair" (w. [[Henry S. Washburne]] m. [[George Frederick Root]]) <br> –  Byron G. Harlan on Edison
* "Wait At The Gate For Me" (w. [[Ren Shields]] m. [[Theodore F. Morse]]) <br> –  J. W. Myers on Victor
* "What's The Matter With The Moon Tonight?" (w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane) <br> –  Arthur Clifford on Edison
* "When The Fields Are White With Cotton" (w. Robert F. Roden w. Max S. Witt) <br> –  Franklyn Wallace on Edison
* "When We Were Two Little Boys" (w. [[Edward Madden (lyricist)|Edward Madden]] m. Theodore F. Morse) <br> –  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 (Delius)|Sea Drift]]''
*[[Edward Elgar]] – ''[[The Apostles (Elgar)|The Apostles]]'' ([[oratorio]])
*[[George Enescu]] – 
**''[[Piano Suite No. 2 (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 (Ravel)|String Quartet in F]]''
*[[Max Reger]] – Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme, Op.73
*[[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov|Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov]] – Christmas Eve (suite)
*[[Albert Roussel]] - ''Résurrection'', Prelude for orchestra Op. 4
*[[Alexander Scriabin]] 
** 8 ''Études for piano'', Op. 42
** ''[[Symphony No. 3 (Scriabin)|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]]''
*[[Paolo Tosti|Francesco Paolo Tosti]] – Seconda mattinata
*[[Ángel Villoldo|Ángel Gregorio Villoldo]] – El Choclo
*[[Alexander von Zemlinsky]] – ''[[Die Seejungfrau]]''

==[[Opera]]==
* [[Eugen d'Albert]] – ''[[Tiefland (opera)|Tiefland]]'' premiered on 15 November at the [[Prague State Opera|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]] – ''[[Mademoiselle Fifi (opera)|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 (opera)|Siberia]]'' premiers at [[Teatro alla Scala]] in Milan on 19 December
* [[Alexander Gretchaninov]] – ''[[Dobrynya Nikitich (opera)|Dobrynya Nikitich]]'' premiered on 27 October at the [[Bolshoi Theater]] in Moscov
* [[Scott Joplin]] – ''[[A Guest of Honor (opera)|A Guest of Honor]]'' (lost)
* [[Mykola Lysenko]] – ''[[Taras Bulba (opera)|Taras Bulba]]'' premiered on 20 December in Kiev
* [[Juan Manén]] – ''Giovanni di Napoli''
* [[John Knowles Paine]] – ''[[Azara (opera)|Azara]]'' premiered in a concert version on 7 May in Boston
* [[Emile Pessard]] – ''L'Épave'' premiered on 17 February at the [[Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens|Bouffes-Parisiens]], Salle Choiseul, Paris
* [[Sergei Vassilenko]] – ''{{transliteration|ru|Skazaniye o grade velikom Kitezhe i tikhom ozere Svetoyare}}'' ("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 Theatre of Variety|Alhambra Ballet]], London. Choreography by [[Lucia Cormani]], the new prima ballerina, and music by [[George W. Byng|George Byng]].
*[[May 7]] - ''Carmen'', a new ballet by [[Alhambra Theatre of Variety|Alhambra Ballet]] premiers in London. [[Lucia Cormani]] choreographs music by [[Georges Bizet]].

==[[Musical theater]]==
* ''[[Babes in Toyland (operetta)|Babes In Toyland]]'' Broadway production opened at the [[Majestic Theatre (Broadway)|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 (London)|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 (London)|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 (New York City)|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 [[Olympia Theatre (New York)|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 (New York City)|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 (London)|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, London|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 (Broadway)|Knickerbocker Theatre]] on [[September 7]] and ran for 64 performances
* ''[[The School Girl]]'' [[West End theatre|London]] production opened on [[May 9]] at the [[Prince of Wales Theatre]] and ran for 333 performances.
* ''[[Three Little Maids]]'' [[Broadway theater|Broadway]] production opened at [[Daly's Theatre]] on [[September 1]] and ran for 130 performances
* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1902 stage play)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' [http://www.theatrehistory.com/american/musical016.html] Broadway production opened at the [[Majestic Theatre (Broadway)|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''
* [[:ru:Vsevolod Cheshikhin|Vsevolod Cheshikhin]] – ''History of Russian Opera from 1674 to 1903''
* [[Theodor von Frimmel]] – ''Ludwig van Beethoven''
* [[Francis William Galpin|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)
* [[:fr:Alphonse Mustel|Alphonse Mustel]] – ''L'Orgue-Expressif ou Harmonium''
* [[Julius F. Sachse|Julius Friedrich Sachse]] – ''The Music of the Ephrata Cloister''
* [[G. Schirmer, Inc.|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]], Chilean pianist (d. 1991)
*[[February 10]] – [[Abel Meeropol]] ('Lewis Allan'), American lyricist (d. 1986)
*[[February 11]] – [[Hans Redlich]], Austrian composer and musicologist (d. 1968)
*[[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 and Reg Connelly|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)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Verna-Osborne-opera-singer-vocal-coach-102-2519526.php|title=Verna Osborne -- opera singer, vocal coach, 102|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|author=Marianne Costantinou|date=April 30, 2006}}</ref>
*[[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 15]] – [[Huldreich Georg Früh]], Swiss composer (d. 1945)
*[[June 18]] – [[Jeanette MacDonald]], US singer and actress (d. 1965)
*[[June 26]] – [[St. Louis Jimmy Oden]], blues singer (d. 1977)
*[[July 3]]
**[[Dick Robertson (singer)|Dick Robertson]], US singer (d. 1944?)
**[[David Webster (opera manager)|Daid Webster]], Scottish opera administrator (d.1971)
*[[July 4]] – [[Flor|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)
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*[[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 (musician)|Ray Noble]], bandleader, composer and arranger (d. 1978)
*''date unknown'' – [[Caterina Jarboro]], operatic soprano (d. 1986)

==Deaths==
*[[January 28]]
**<!--January 28-->[[Augusta Holmès]], French composer, 55<ref>Rollo Myers: "Augusta Holmès: A Meteoric Career", in: ''The Musical Quarterly'' 53 (1967) 3, pp.&nbsp;365–76</ref>
**<!--January 28-->[[Robert Planquette]], French composer, 54<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle = Planquette, Robert|volume=21 |page=725}}</ref>
*[[January 31]] – [[Meyer Lutz]], conductor and composer, 73<ref name=DNB>Gänzl, Kurt.  [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34639 "Lutz, (Wilhelm) Meyer (1829–1903)"], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, Retrieved on 8 July 2008</ref>
*[[February 2]] – [[Marc Burty]], music teacher and composer, 75
*[[February 17]] – [[Joseph Parry]], organist and composer, 61<ref name=death2>{{cite news|url=http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3319745/3319751/41/dr%20parry|title=Death of Dr. Joseph Parry|publisher=The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard|date=20 February 1903|page=6|accessdate=31 May 2016}}</ref>
*[[February 22]] – [[Hugo Wolf]], Austrian composer, 62 (syphilis)<ref>Sams, Eric and [[Susan Youens]], 'Hugo Wolf', [[Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|Grove Music]] Online ed. L. Macy, [http://www.grovemusic.com (subscription access)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516041031/http://www.grovemusic.com/ |date=2008-05-16 }}</ref>
*[[February 23]] – [[Friedrich Grützmacher]], cellist, 70
*March – [[Eugène Cormon]], French librettist, 92
*[[March 5]] – [[Thomas Ryan (musician)|Thomas Ryan]], viola and clarinet player, 75<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | title = Ryan, Thomas | encyclopedia = [[Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians]] | editor = Theodore Baker and Alfred Remy | edition = 3rd | year = 1919 | page = 798 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=H2kNAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA798}}</ref>
*[[March 14]] – [[Ernest Legouvé]], opera librettist (born 1807)
*[[March 19]] – [[Pista Dankó]], "gypsy" bandleader and composer, 44
*[[April 1]] – [[Amelia Lehmann|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<ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Arditi, Luigi |volume=2 |page=451}}</ref>
*[[May 9]] – [[Giuseppe Cremonini]], operatic tenor, 36<ref>{{Cite book
|title= A concise biographical dictionary of singers; from the beginning of recorded sound to the present
|author= Leo Riemens
|author-link= Leo Riemens
|year= 1969
|publisher= [[Chilton Book Co]]
}}</ref>
*[[May 15]] – [[Sibyl Sanderson]], operatic soprano, 38 (pneumonia)<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/05/17/101999030.pdf Sibyl Sanderson Dead: Singer Passes Away in Paris, New York Times, May 16, 1903.]</ref>
*June – [[Constance Bache]], pianist, composer and music teacher, 57<ref>''Who Was Who 1897-1916'' gives her date of death as June 30; the ''Musical Times'' obituary gives June 28</ref>
*[[June 29]] – [[Rentarō Taki]], Japanese pianist and composer, 23 (tuberculosis)
*[[July 27]] – [[Lina Sandell]], Swedish poet and hymn-writer 70<ref>[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/ryden/hymnstory.txt Scandinavian Hymnody] ''ccel.org''. Retrieved: 8 May 2013</ref>
*[[July 28]] – [[Rosine Stoltz]], French mezzo-soprano 88
*[[September 4]] – [[Hermann Zumpe]], conductor and composer, 53<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Zumpe, Hermann
|first=J. A.
|last=Fuller Maitland|author-link=John Alexander Fuller Maitland
|title=[[Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]
|edition=second
|volume=V
|location=New York
|publisher=Macmillan and Co.
|year=1910
|oclc=5000207
}}</ref>
*[[September 28]] – [[Samuel A. Ward]], organist and composer, 55
*[[November 28]] – [[Jules Levy (musician)]], Cornetist and composer, 65
*[[December 12]] – [[Christian Johansson]], ballet dancer and teacher, 86
*[[December 20]] – [[Kornél Ábrányi]], pianist and composer, 81

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