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1900
 
    
Giacomo Puccini's Tosca brings in the new century with a January premiere in Rome       
1900
 
    
Scottish music-hall artist Harry Lauder makes his first London appearance at Gatti's music hall in Westminster       
Sheet music cover for Harry Lauder, c.1905


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1900
 
    
Enrique Granados completes the ten piano pieces forming his Danzas españolas       
1900
 
    
Jean Sibelius's Finlandia stirs national instincts in Helsinki       
1900
 
     
Edward Elgar writes the oratorio Dream of Gerontius, setting Cardinal Newman's poem of the same title        
1900
 
    
Gustave Charpentier's opera Louise has Paris premiere at the Opéra-Comique       
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