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Overview of the events of 1902 in music
Overview of the events of 1902 in music
Original 1902 production of
Pelléas et Mélisande ;
Mary Garden as Mélisande.
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1902.
Specific locations
Events
January 25
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
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
Frolic of the Frogs
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 –
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
Lillian Russell 's only recording, from 1912. During the production of
Twirly Whirly (1902), composer John Stromberg delayed giving her her solo for several days, saying it wasn't ready. When he committed suicide a few days before the first rehearsal, the sheet music for "Come Down Ma Evenin' Star" was found in his pocket. It became Lillian Russell's signature song.
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
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
March 31 –
Hans Albrecht , musicologist (died 1961)
April 4 –
Adam Adrio , German musicologist (d. 1973)
April 8
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
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
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
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
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
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
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