Events in Music
- Mar 8 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony, his most popular, by the Helsinki Philharmonic Society
- Mar 18 Italian operatic tenor Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record
- Apr 30 Claude Debussy's only completed opera "Pelléas et Mélisande" premieres in Paris
- Jun 16 "The Wizard of Oz" musical first opens in Chicago, Illinois
- Dec 29 Scot Joplin copyrights "The Entertainer" and several other piano rag compositions through the US Copyright Office
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- Mar 9 Austrian composer Gustav Mahler (41) marries Alma Schindler (22) in Vienna, Austria
Musicians Who Died in 1902
- Jan 18 Filippo Marchetti, Italian opera composer, dies at 70
- Feb 1 Salomon Jadassohn, German pianist & composer, dies at 70
- Feb 2 Emanuil Manolov, composer, dies at 42
- Feb 25 Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, Austrian zither player and composer, dies at 77
- Mar 17 George William Warren, American hymn composer, dies at 73
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