1901 in music

Events

the American musician Scott Joplin popularizes the ragtime with The easy winners .
the British musician Sir Edward Elgar composes the first of its five Pump and Circumstance Marches .
the Russian musician Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff writes its second concerto for piano .

Success of the year in France

February 3rd: Pelléas and Mélisande , of Gabriel Fauré.
October 23rd: the Barbarians , opera of Saint-Saëns.
October 27th: Three Night , of Debussy.
November 4th: the Veil of Happiness , Gabriel Fauré.
November 20th: Grisélidis , opera of Jules Massenet.

Rewards

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Births

August 4th: Louis Armstrong, American trumpet player

Principal deaths

January 27th: Giuseppe Verdi Italian type-setter, with Milan (° 1813).

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