1902 in music explained
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; 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
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
- Serge Koussevitzky – Double Bass Concerto in F Sharp Minor
- 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
Musical theater
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)[2]
- 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)[3]
- 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
Notes and References
- Book: Jerome. William. Schwartz. Jean. Rip Van Winkle was a lucky man. 1901. Shapiro, Bernstein and Von Tilzer. New York. 21 September 2014.
- Mr Webster Booth, Obituary, The Times, 22 June 1984
- Book: Notice de personne "De Fabritiis, Oliviero (1902-1982)" . Person notice "De Fabritiis, Oliviero (1902-1982)" . . fr . 11 May 2012 . 9 August 2022.
