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'