| Year |
Event |
| 1891 |
Leo Delibes, French composer, dies |
| 1891 |
Sir Arthur Bliss, English composer, born |
| 1891 |
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 |
| 1891 |
Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, born |
| 1891 |
Karl Zeller: "Der Vogelhandler," Viennese operetta |
| 1891 |
Rachmaninoff finishes the first version of his Piano Concerto No. 1 (revised in 1917) |
| 1892 |
Robert Franz, German composer, dies |
| 1892 |
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8, Vienna |
| 1892 |
Leoncavallo: "I Paliacci," opera, Milan |
| 1892 |
Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker;" ballet, St. Petersburg |
| 1892 |
Dvorak becomes director of New York National Conservatory of Music |
| 1893 |
Cole Porter, American composer, born |
| 1893 |
Tchaikovsky dies |
| 1893 |
Charles Gounod dies |
| 1893 |
Dvorak: Symphony No. 5, Opus 95 ("From the New World") |
| 1893 |
Sibelius: "Karelia Suite," Opus 10 |
| 1893 |
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 ("Pathetique"), Opus 74 |
| 1893 |
Engelbert Humperdinck: "Hansel und Gretel," opera, Weimar |
| 1893 |
Puccini: "Manon Lescaut," opera, Turin |
| 1893 |
Verdi: "Falstaff," opera, Milan |
| 1894 |
Hans von Bulow, German pianist and conductor, first husband of Cosima Wagner, dies |
| 1894 |
Emmanuel Chabrier, French composer, dies |
| 1894 |
Sibelius: "Finlandia" |
| 1894 |
Debussy: "L'Apres-midi d'un faune" |
| 1894 |
Massenet: "Thais," opera, Paris |
| 1894 |
Richard Strauss: "Guntram," opera, Paris |
| 1894 |
Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer and pianist, dies |
| 1895 |
Tchaikovsky:"Swan Lake," ballet, St. Petersburg, (first completed performance) |
| 1895 |
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 |
| 1895 |
Richard Strauss: "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks," symphonic poem, Cologne |
| 1895 |
Robert Newman arranges the first Promenade Concerts at Queen's Hall, London; conductor: Henry J. Wood |
| 1895 |
Paul Hindemith, German composer, born |
| 1895 |
Wilhelm Kienzl: "Der Evangelimann," opera, Berlin |
| 1896 |
A. Carlos Gomez, Brazilian composer, dies |
| 1896 |
Anton Bruckner dies |
| 1896 |
Sidney Jones: "The Geisha," operetta, London |
| 1896 |
Clara Wiek-Schumann, German Pianist, dies |
| 1896 |
Edward MacDowell: "Indian Suite," on N. American Indian folk tunes |
| 1896 |
Richard Strauss: "Also Sprach Zarathustra," symphonic poem, Frankfurt |
| 1896 |
Puccini: "La Boheme," opera, Turin |
| 1896 |
Hugo Wolf: "Der Corregidor," opera, Mannheim |
| 1896 |
Giordano: "Andrea Chenier," opera, Milan |
| 1896 |
The last of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operettas, "The Grand Duke," London |
| 1897 |
Johannes Brahms dies |
| 1897 |
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer, born |
| 1897 |
Gustav Mahler becomes conductor of the Vienna Opera |
| 1897 |
Vincent d'Indy: "Fervaal," opera, Brussels |
| 1898 |
Eduard Remenyi, Hungarian violinist, toured Germany with Brahms (52-53), dies |
| 1898 |
Paul Robeson, bass singer, born |
| 1898 |
Toscanini appears at La Scala, Milan |
| 1899 |
Elgar: "Enigma Variations" |
| 1899 |
Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E minor |
| 1899 |
Bruckner: Symphony No.5 (posth.) |
| 1899 |
Francis Poulenc, French composer, born |
| 1899 |
Johann Strauss dies |
| 1899 |
Karl Millocker, Viennese operetta composer, dies |
| 1899 |
Richard Strauss: "Ein Heldenleben," symphonic poem, Frankfurt |
| 1900 |
Sir Aurther Sullivan, English composer, dies |
| 1900 |
Ernst Krenek, Austrian composer, born |
| 1900 |
Sir Arthur Sullivan dies |
| 1900 |
Kurt Weill, German composer, born |
| 1900 |
Samuel Coleridge- Taylor: "Hiawatha" |
| 1900 |
Gustave Charpentier: "Louise," opera, Paris |
| 1900 |
Elgar: "Dream of Gerontius," oratorio, Birmingham |
| 1900 |
Puccini: "Tosca," opera, Rome |
| 1900 |
Aaron Copland, American composer, born |
Music History Timeline - 1891 to 1900
