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| 1895 |
| | | Swan Lake is performed in St Petersburg in its definitive version, with choreography shared between Lucien Petipa and Lev Ivanov | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Australia has a catchy new song in "Waltzing Matilda", written by Banjo Paterson to music by Christina Macpherson | |
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| 1895 |
| | | A promenade concert, presented by Henry Wood in London's Queen's Hall, turns out to be the beginning of a very long tradition | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème has an unsuccessful premiere in Turin | |
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| 1896 |
| | | Jean Sibelius's 'symphonic legend' The Swan of Tuonela has its premiere in Helsinki | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Jewish composer Gustav Mahler is baptized a Christian so as to be eligible to conduct the Vienna Opera | |
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| 1897 |
| | | Rachmaninov's First Symphony has a disastrous premiere in St Petersburg, probably caused by the incompetence of Glazunov as conductor | |
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| 1898 |
| | | The Australian soprano Nellie Melba forms the Melba Grand Opera Company as a touring venture in the USA | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Edward Elgar teases with the word 'enigma' printed at the head of his orchestral Variations on an Original Theme | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg composes the string sextet Verklärte Nacht | |
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