| Year |
Event |
| 1901 |
Richard Strauss: "Feuersnot,"opera, Dresden |
| 1901 |
Stanford: " Much Ado about Nothing," opera, London |
| 1901 |
Dvorak: "Rusalk,"opera, Prague |
| 1901 |
Elgar: "Cockaigne," overture, Opus 40 |
| 1901 |
Ravel: "Jeux d'eau" |
| 1901 |
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 |
| 1901 |
Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 (posth.) |
| 1901 |
Verdi dies |
| 1901 |
Edmund Rubbra, English composer, born |
| 1901 |
Werner Egk, German composer, born |
| 1901 |
Tenor Leo Slezak joins the Vienna Opera |
| 1901 |
Ragtime starts to become a distinct form in US |
| 1901 |
Wigmore Hall, London, opened |
| 1902 |
Elgar composes the first of "Pomp and Circumstance" marches (last in 1930) |
| 1902 |
Debussy: "Pelleas et Melisande," opera, Paris |
| 1902 |
Edward German: "Merrie England," operetta, London |
| 1902 |
Fredrick Delius: "Appalachia" |
| 1902 |
William Walton, English composer born |
| 1902 |
Leo Blech: "Das War Ich," comic opera, Dresden |
| 1902 |
Lehar: "Der Rastelbinder," operetta, Vienna |
| 1902 |
Massenet: "Le Jongleur de Notre Dame," opera, Monte Carlo |
| 1902 |
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 |
| 1902 |
Enrico Caruso makes his first phonograph recording |
| 1903 |
Delius: "Sea Drift" |
| 1903 |
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9, Vienna (posth.) |
| 1903 |
Oscar Hammerstein builds the Manhatten Opera House, New York |
| 1903 |
Hugo Wolf dies |
| 1903 |
Lennox Berkeley, English composer, born |
| 1903 |
Edmund Eysler: "Bruder Straubinger," operetta, Vienna |
| 1903 |
Boris Blacher, German composer, born |
| 1903 |
Juan Manen: "Giovanna di Napoli," Spanish opera |
| 1903 |
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: "Le Donne curiose," opera, Munich |
| 1903 |
D'Albert: "Tiefland," opera, Prague |
| 1903 |
Elgar: "The Apostles," oratorio, Birmingham |
| 1903 |
First recording of an opera: Verdi's "Ernani" |
| 1904 |
G.M. Balanchine and Anton Dolin, choreographers, born |
| 1904 |
Anton Dvorak dies |
| 1904 |
Delius: "Koanga," opera, Elberfeld |
| 1904 |
Puccini: "Madame Butterfly," opera, Milan |
| 1904 |
Richard Strauss: "Sinfonia Domestica," New York |
| 1904 |
Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer, born |
| 1904 |
First transmission of music at Graz, Austria |
| 1904 |
London Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert |
| 1904 |
Victor Herbert: "Mille. Modeste," operetta, New York |
| 1904 |
Leos Janacek: "Jenufa," opera, Brno |
| 1905 |
Theodore Thomas, German American conductor, dies |
| 1905 |
Serge Lifar, Russian choreographer, born |
| 1905 |
Michael Tippett, English composer, born |
| 1905 |
Debussy: "Le Mer," Paris |
| 1905 |
Franz Lehar: "The Merry Widow," operetta, Vienna |
| 1905 |
Richard Strauss: " Salome," opera, Dresden |
| 1905 |
"Zenobia," by L.A. Coerne becomes the first American opera to be produced in Europe (Bremen) |
| 1905 |
Albert Schweitzer: "J.S. Bach" |
| 1905 |
Sir Thomas Beecham makes his debut as conductor in London |
| 1905 |
Victor Herbert: "The Red Mill," operetta, New York |
| 1906 |
John K. Paine, American musicologist and music teacher, dies |
| 1906 |
Massenet: "Ariane," opera, Paris |
| 1906 |
Ethel Smith: "The Wreckers," opera, Leipzig |
| 1906 |
Mozart Festival begins in Salzburg |
| 1906 |
Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer, born |
| 1906 |
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: "I quattro rusteghi"("The School for Fathers"), comic opera, Munich |
| 1906 |
Max von Schillings: "Moloch," opera, Dresden |
| 1906 |
Elgar: "The Kingdom," oratorio, Birmingham |
| 1906 |
Geraldine Farrar makes American debut |
| 1906 |
First program of voice and music broadcast in the US by R.A. Fessenden |
| 1907 |
Joseph Joachim, German violinist, dies |
| 1907 |
Edvard Grieg dies |
| 1907 |
Delius: "A Village Romeo and Juliet," opera, Berlin |
| 1907 |
Paul Cukas: "Ariane et Barbe bleue," opera, Paris |
| 1907 |
Oskar Strauss: "A Waltz Dream," operetta, Vienna |
| 1907 |
Leo Fall: "The Dollar Princess," operetta, Vienna |
| 1907 |
Franz Lehar: "The Merry Widow," opera, New York |
| 1907 |
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major ("The Symphony of a Thousand") |
| 1907 |
The first "Ziegfeld Follies," staged in New York |
| 1908 |
James Rider Randall, American song writer ("Maryland, My Maryland") dies |
| 1908 |
Bela Bartok: String Quartet No. 1 |
| 1908 |
Elgar: Symphony No.1 in A-flat, Opus 55 |
| 1908 |
Rimsky-Korsakov dies |
| 1908 |
Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor, born |
| 1908 |
Eleven year old, E.W. Korngold writes his first stage work, the ballet "The Snowman" (first produced in 1910) |
| 1908 |
Oliver Messiaen, French composer, born |
| 1908 |
Sarasate, Spanish violinist, dies |
| 1908 |
Oskar Straus: "The Chocolate Soldier," operetta, Vienna |
| 1908 |
Leo Fall: "The Girl in the Train," operetta, Vienna |
| 1909 |
Robert Helpmann, British-Australian ballet dancer and choreographer, born |
| 1909 |
Delius: "A Mass for Life" |
| 1909 |
Richard Strauss: "Elektra," opera, Dresden |
| 1909 |
Rimsky-Korsakov: " The Golden Cockerel" (posth.) |
| 1909 |
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 9 |
| 1909 |
R. Vaughan Williams: "Fantasia on a Theme of Tallis" |
| 1909 |
Sergei Diaghilev presents his "Ballet Russe" for the first time in Paris |
| 1909 |
Arnold Schonberg: "Three Piano Pieces," Opus 11 |
| 1909 |
Wolf-Ferrari: "Il Segreto di Susanna," comic opera, Munich |
| 1909 |
Franz Lehar: "The Count of Luxemburg,"operetta, Vienna |
| 1910 |
Mily Balakirev, Russian compose, founder of the "Great Five" group, dies |
| 1910 |
Franz Xaver Haberl, German musical scholar, dies |
| 1910 |
Elgar: Concerto for Violin in B Minor, Opus 61, London |
| 1910 |
Puccini: "La Fanciulla de West," ("The Girl of the Golden West"), opera, New York |
| 1910 |
R. Vaughan Williams: "Sea Symphony" |
| 1910 |
Stravinsky: "The Firebird," ballet, Paris |
| 1910 |
Thomas Beecham's first opera season at Covent Garden, London |
| 1910 |
Alban Berg: "String Quartet," Opus 3 |
| 1910 |
Busoni: "Fantasia Contrpuntistica" for orchestra |
| 1910 |
Jean Gilbert: "Die keusche Susanne," operetta |
| 1910 |
Massenet: "Don Quichotte," opera, Monte Carlo |
| 1910 |
The South American tango gains immense popularity in Europe and the US |
| 1910 |
Franz Lehar: "Gypsy Love," operetta, Vienna |
| 1910 |
Victor Herbert: "Naughty Marietta," American operetta, New York |
Music History Timeline - 1901 to 1910
