Events in Music
- Mar 15 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole"
- Sep 19 Gustav Mahler's 7th Symphony premieres in Prague
- Nov 4 Brooklyn Academy of Music opens in NYC
- Nov 14 Oscar Strauss' musical "Der tapfere Soldat" premieres in Vienna
- Nov 16 Arturo Toscanini begins conducting NY's Metropolitan Opera
- Dec 3 Edward Elgar's 1st Symphony in A performed by the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Hans Richter, premieres in Manchester, England
Louis JordanMusicians Who Died in 1908
- Jan 23 Edward Alexander MacDowell, American composer (Indian Suite), dies at 47
- Feb 14 Georges Jean Pfeiffer, French composer, dies at 72
- Feb 24 Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, Ukrainian composer, dies at 66
- Feb 28 Pauline Lucca, Austrian operatic soprano, dies at 66
- Mar 11 Peter Milne, Scottish composer, dies at 83
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