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1896
 
    
Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème has an unsuccessful premiere in Turin       
1896
 
    
Jean Sibelius's 'symphonic legend' The Swan of Tuonela has its premiere in Helsinki       
1896
 
    
Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull has a disastrous premiere in St Petersburg (but is well received two years later in Moscow)       
1897
 
    
Jewish composer Gustav Mahler is baptized a Christian so as to be eligible to conduct the Vienna Opera       
1897
 
    
Rachmaninov's First Symphony has a disastrous premiere in St Petersburg, probably caused by the incompetence of Glazunov as conductor       
1898
 
     
Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Konstantin Stanislavsky, succeeds at the Moscow Art Theatre        
1898
 
   
5-year-old Mary Pickford plays her first professional role on stage      
1898
 
   
The Australian soprano Nellie Melba forms the Melba Grand Opera Company as a touring venture in the USA      
1899
 
    
Edward Elgar teases with the word 'enigma' printed at the head of his orchestral Variations on an Original Theme       
Edward Elgar, by Hedley, 1927
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1899
 
    
Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg composes the string sextet Verklärte Nacht