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Events relating to music
Michel Fokine creates the ballet Les Sylphides (originally called Chopiniana) to music by Chopin
Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev presents five concerts of Russian music in Paris
Frederick Delius completes Brigg Fair, an 'English Rhapsody' for orchestra, first performed in Liverpool in 1908
Harry Lauder has a hit in the USA with his recording of I Love a Lassie
Anna Pavlova dances The Dying Swan, choreographed for her by Michel Fokine to music by Saint-Saëns
Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer write Take Me Out to the Ball Game, which becomes one of the most popular songs in the USA
Sergei Diaghilev presents Fyodor Chaliapin in Boris Godunov at the Paris Opera
Claude Debussy completes Children's Corner, pieces for piano which include 'Golliwog's Cake Walk'
Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes write "Shine on, Harvest Moon" for The Follies of 1908
Arnold Schoenberg abandons tonality in his String Quartet No. 2
Alexander Scriabin's orchestral work, Poem of Ecstasy, has its first performance in New York
The opera Elektra, the first collaboration between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, has its premiere in Dresden
Michel Fokine becomes the choreographer for the ballet company that Sergei Diaghilev is taking to Paris
Ralph Vaughan Williams sets poems by Housman in On Wenlock Edge
Arnold Schoenberg composes his opera for a single voice, Erwartung, which remains unperformed until 1924 in Prague
Isaac Albéniz completes his series of 12 piano pieces published under the title Iberia.
15-year-old Andrés Segovia gives his first public performance as a guitarist in Granada
Vaughan Williams first symphony, which he names A Sea Symphony, is first performed at the Leeds Festival
Sergei Rachmaninov premieres his Third Piano Concerto during his tour of the USA as a pianist
Thomas Beecham uses his personal fortune from Beecham's Pills to found his first orchestra, the Beecham Symphony Orchestra
Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Golden Cockerel has its premiere in Moscow
Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis is first performed in Gloucester
Fritz Kreisler is the soloist in the first performance of Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto
Alban Berg and Anton Webern follow Schoenberg in developing atonal music
Gustav Mahler conducts in Munich the first performance of his Eighth Symphony, subsequently known as the 'Symphony of a Thousand'
