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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1902.
Specific locations
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;[1] 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[2]
- "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)[3]
- 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)[4]
- 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)
References
- ↑ "No. 27448". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 July 1902. p. 4189.
- ↑ Jerome, William; Schwartz, Jean (1901). Rip Van Winkle was a lucky man. New York: Shapiro, Bernstein and Von Tilzer. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
- ↑ Mr Webster Booth, Obituary, The Times, 22 June 1984
- ↑ Notice de personne "De Fabritiis, Oliviero (1902-1982)" [Person notice "De Fabritiis, Oliviero (1902-1982)"] (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. 11 May 2012. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
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