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1901
 
   
Vast crowds line the streets for the Milan funeral of a national hero, the 87-year-old composer Giuseppe Verdi      
1901
 
    
Rusalka, by the Czech composer Anton Dvorák, is performed in Prague       
1901
 
     
The first of Edward Elgar's five Pomp and Circumstance marches has a trio section that becomes "Land of Hope and Glory"        
1901
 
    
Sergei Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto gives him renewed confidence after the disaster of his First Symphony in 1897       
1901
 
    
Frederick Delius completes his opera A Village Romeo and Juliet, but it is not performed until 1907 in Berlin       
1902
 
     
The play Cathleen ni Houlihan, by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, fosters Irish nationalism        
1902
 
   
Charles Pathé develops film facilities capable of mass production, in Vincennes near Paris      
1902
 
     
'Land of Hope and Glory' features in its lasting form as the finale of Elgar's Coronation Ode for Edward VII        
1902
 
    
Hughie Cannon writes 'Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home' for a minstrel, John Queen       
1902
 
    
Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths is performed at the Moscow Art Theatre