This is a list of notable events in music that took place in 1902.
Specific locations 1902 in Norwegian music
Events January 25 Franz Schmidt's Symphony No. 1 in E Major premieres in Vienna Alexander Scriabin's Symphony No. 2 in C Minor premieres with Anatoly Liadov conducting at the Russian Symphony Concerts in Saint Petersburg 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 Schindler (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 Tenor Enrico Caruso makes the first million-selling recording, of "Vesti la giubba", for the Gramophone Company in Milan Cambridge University bestows the honorary degree of Doctor of Music upon American composer Horatio Parker 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
"Any Rags?" w.m. Thomas S. Allen "Because" w. Edward Teschemacher m. Guy d'Hardelot "Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home" w.m. Hughie Cannon "Come Down Ma' Evenin' Star" w. Robert B. Smith m. John Stromberg "Could You Be True To Eyes Of Blue If You Looked Into Eyes Of Brown?" w.m. Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards "Didn't Know Exactly What To Do" w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders "Down On The Farm" w. Raymond A. Browne m. Harry Von Tilzer "Down The Line With Molly" w. George Totten Smith m. George L. Spaulding "Down Where The Wurzburger Flows" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry Von Tilzer "The Entertainer" m. Scott Joplin "The Face In The Firelight" w.m. Charles Shackford
"The Gambling Man" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz "The Glow Worm" w. Lilla Cayley Robinson (Ger) Heinz Bolten-Backers m. Paul Lincke "Happy Hooligan" m. Theodore Morse "Have You Seen My Sweetheart In His Uniform Of Blue?" w. Will D. Cobb m. Gus Edwards "Heidelberg Stein Song" w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders "I Just Can't Help From Lovin' That Man" w. Andrew B. Sterling & Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry von Tilzer "I Sing A Little Tenor" w. Harry Linton m. John Gilroy "I Went To See Them March Away" w. S. E. Keisser m. R. J. Jose "I Wonder Why Bill Bailey Don't Come Home" w.m. Frank Fogerty, Matt C. Woodward & William Jerome "If Money Talks It Ain't On Speaking Terms With Me" w.m. J. Fred Helf "I'll Be There Mary Dear" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer "I'll Be Waiting In The Gloaming, Sweet Genevieve" w.m. J. Fred Helf "I'll Be Your Rain-beau" w. Ed Gardinier m. J. Fred Helf "I'll Wed You In The Golden Summertime" w. Alfred Bryan m. Stanley Crawford "I'm The Man Who Makes The Money In The Mint" w.m. Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards "I'm Unlucky" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz "I've Been Sleeping On The Floor All Night" w.m. T.W. Connor "In Dear Old Illinois" by Paul Dresser "In Silence" w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane "In The City Of Sighs And Tears" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Kerry Mills "In The Good Old Summer Time" w. Ren Shields m. George Evans. Introduced by Blanche Ring in the musical The Defender. "In The Sweet Bye And Bye" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry Von Tilzer "In The Valley Of Kentucky" w.m. Tony Stanford "It's A Nice Little Cosy Kitchen" w.m. T.W. Connor "It's Got To Be A Minstrel Show Tonight" w. Ren Shields m. George Evans "Jennie Lee" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Harry Von Tilzer "Just Can't Help From Lovin' That Man" w. Andrew B. Sterling & Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry von Tilzer "Just For Tonight" w.m. Frank O. French "Just Next Door" w.m. Charles K. Harris "Kashmiri Song" w. Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Nicolson) 1901 m. Amy Woodforde-Finden "Katrina" w.m. Edward W. Corliss "Land Of Hope And Glory" w. Arthur C. Benson m. Edward Elgar "The Leader Of The Frocks And Frills" w. Robert H. Smith m. Melville Ellis "Less Than The Dust" w. Laurence Hope m. Amy Woodforde-Finden "Levee Rag" m. Charles Mullen "The Mansion of Aching Hearts" w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Harry Von Tilzer "May Sweet May" w. R. J. Jose m. Robert S. Roberts "The Meaning Of USA" w.m. Raymond A. Browne "Meet Me When The Sun Goes Down" w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry von Tilzer "The Message Of The Rose" w. Will A. Heelan m. Leo Edwards "The Message Of The Violet" w. Frank Pixley m. Gustav Luders "Mister Dooley" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz "My Sulu Lulu Loo" w. George Ade m. Nat D. Mann "Nobody's Looking But The Owl And The Moon" w. Bob Cole & James Weldon Johnson m. J. Rosamond Johnson "Nursery Rhymes" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz "Oh! Didn't He Ramble" w.m. Bob Cole & J. Rosamond Johnson "On A Sunday Afternoon" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer "On The Day King Edward Gets His Crown On" w.m. Mark Lorne & Harry Pleon "Paint Me A Picture Of Mama" w. Addison Burkhardt m. Raymond Hubbell "The Passing Of Rag-Time" m. Arthur Pryor "Pinky Panky Poo" w. Aaron S. Hoffman m. Andy Lewis "The Plan of Love" m. Annie P. Lumsden "Please Go 'Way And Let Me Sleep" w. Cecil Mack m. J. Tim Brymn "Pomp and Circumstance" by Edward Elgar "Pretty Little Dinah Jones" w.m. J. B. Mullen "R-E-M-O-R-S-E" w. George Ade m. Alfred G. Wathall "Rip Van Winkle Was A Lucky Man" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz "Sal" w.m. Paul Rubens "Sammy" w. James O'Dea m. Edward Hutchinson "Since Sister Nell Heard Paderewski Play" w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz "Those Things Cannot Be Explained" w. Junie McCree m. Ben M. Jerome "The Troubles Of Reuben And The Maid" w. J. Cheever Goodwin m. Maurice Levi "Under The Bamboo Tree" w.m. Bob Cole & J. Rosamond Johnson "Under the Double Eagle" by Josef Franz Wagner "Wait At The Gate For Me" w. Ren Shields m. Theodore F. Morse "What's The Matter With The Moon Tonight?" w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane "When Kate And I Were Comin' Thro' The Rye" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer "When The Fields Are White With Cotton" w. Robert F. Roden w. Max S. Witt "When The Troupe Gets Back To Town" w. George Totten Smith m. Harry von Tilzer "Where The Sunset Turns The Ocean's Blue To Gold" w. Eva Fern Buckner m. Henry W. Petrie
Recorded popular music "Arkansaw Traveler" – Len Spencer "In the Good Old Summer Time" – William Redmond
Classical music Granville Bantock – The Witch of Atlas Béla Bartók - 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 – From the Middle Ages Symphony No. 7, Op. 77 (Pastoral) 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 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
Opera
Francesco Cilea – Adriana Lecouvreur premiered on November 26 in Milan Claude Debussy – Pelléas et Mélisande premiered on April 30 in Paris Manuel de Falla – Los amores de la Inés Alberto Franchetti – Germania Edward German – Merrie England Reynaldo Hahn – La Carmélite Engelbert Humperdinck – Dornröschen, premiered on November 12 in Frankfurt am Main Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov – Potemkin Holiday Franz Lehár – Der Rastelbinder, premiered on December 20 in Vienna Jules Massenet – Le Jongleur de Notre Dame premiered on February 18 at the Theatre de Casino in Monte Carlo Carl August Nielsen – Saul and David premiered on November 29 in Copenhagen Emile Pessard – L'armée des vierges premiered on October 15 at the Bouffes-Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, Paris Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Servilia premiered on October 14 in St.Petersburg Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Kashchei the Immortal George Stephanescu – Petra Ethel Smyth – Der Wald premiered on April 9 in Berlin
Ballet January 24 - Oskar Nedbal - Pohádka o Honzovi (The Tale of Honza) premieres at National theatre in Prague February 2 - Alexander Gorsky's revised version of Don Quixote opens in Moscow. Based on a staging of the ballet by Marius Petipa from 1871 April 21 - In Japan is produced by the Alhambra Theater, London. Carlo Coppi choreographs music by Louis Ganne June 16 - Carlo Coppi's last piece of choreography for London Alhambra Ballet - Britannia's Realm premiers on the occasion of King Edward's VII's coronation
Musical theater
Bob Herceg (Prince Bob) – by Jenö Huszka, with libretto by Ferenc Martos and Károly Bakonyi A Country Girl London production opened at Daly's Theatre on January 18 and ran for 729 performances The Defender (Music: Charles Dennée Book & Lyrics: Allen Lowe) Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on July 3 and ran for 60 performances. Starring Blanche Ring. The Emerald Isle Broadway production The Girl from Kays London production opened at the Apollo Theatre on November 15 and ran for 432 performances. Madame Sherry Berlin and Paris productions The Rogers Brothers At Harvard Broadway production Three Little Maids London production opened at the Apollo Theatre on May 10 and transferred to the Prince of Wales Theatre on September 8 for a total run of 348 performances. Tommy Rot Broadway production