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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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| 1896 |
| | Anton Chekhov's play The Seagull has a disastrous premiere in St Petersburg (but is well received two years later in Moscow) | |
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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 |
| | Chekhov's The Seagull, directed by Konstantin Stanislavsky, succeeds at the Moscow Art Theatre | |
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| 1898 |
| | 5-year-old Mary Pickford plays her first professional role on stage | |
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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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