Events
- February 1 – Carl Nielsen conducts the première of his Symphony No. 4, the Inextinguishable, in Copenhagen.
- February 11 – Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its first concert.
- March 3 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band begin playing at Schiller's Cafe in Chicago, Illinois, under the name Stein's Dixie Jass Band.
- March 10 – Sir Hubert Parry writes the choral setting of William Blake's poem "And did those feet in ancient time" which becomes known as "Jerusalem" (first performed 28 March at the Queen's Hall, London).
- April 28 – Edison Records carry out the first public "comparison test" between live and recorded singing voices at Carnegie Hall, featuring soprano Marie Rappold.[1]
- June 5 – Stein's Dixie Jass Band plays its first concert under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jass Band.
- August 3 – The musical comedy Chu Chin Chow, written, produced, directed and starring Oscar Asche, with music by Frederic Norton, premières at His Majesty's Theatre in London. It will run for five years and a total of 2,238 performances (more than twice as many as any previous musical), a West End theatre record that will stand for nearly forty years.
- December – Wilbur Sweatman records his hot ragtime for Emerson Records in New York City.
- Gustav Holst completes composition of his orchestral suite The Planets, Op. 32, in England.
- Sydney Conservatorium of Music in Australia accepts its first students.
- Soprano Hedy Iracema-Brügelmann is awarded the Charlottenkreuz.
- German soprano Vali von der Osten marries tenor Fritz Windgassen.
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