Schéhérazade, with choreography by Fokine, music by Rimsky-Korsakov and designs by Bakst, is premiered by the Ballets Russes in Paris

The Firebird brings together Fokine (choreography), Stravinsky (music) and Golovine and Bakst (sets and costumes)

Alexander Scriabin completes Prometheus, the Poem of Fire, first performed in Moscow in 1911

The Snowman, a pantomime opera by the 11-year-old Erich Korngold, is a huge succes in Vienna

Thomas Beecham sponsors and conducts his own season of opera at Covent Garden

Giacomo Puccini's opera Girl of the Golden West premieres in New York

Richard Strauss changes musical direction with his opera Der Rosenkavalier, once again with libretto by Hugo von Hoffmannsthal

Ethel Smyth's The March of Women has its premiere at a suffragette event in London's Albert Hall

Al Jolson makes his first recording, That Haunting Melody, for the Victor label

Le Spectre de la Rose, with choreography by Fokine, music by Weber and designs by Bakst, is premiered by the Ballets Russes in Monte Carlo

Spanish composer Enrique Granados completes his Goyescas, seven pieces for piano

Scott Joplin completes a ragtime opera, Treemonisha

The ballet Petrushka brings together Fokine (choreography), Stravinsky (music) and Benois (sets and costumes)

Bruno Walter conducts in Munich the first performance of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, a few months after the composer's death

French composer Henri Duparc publishes a complete edition of his songs

Rudolph Wurlitzer's company in the USA produces the first of its famous movie theatre organs

The US composer Irving Berlin writes 'Alexander's Ragtime Band'

Jelly Roll Morton plays in New York his Jelly Roll Blues

Carl Nielsen's Third Symphony, first performed in Copenhagen, brings him international renown

Daphnis and Chloe, with choreography by Fokine, music by Ravel and designs by Bakst, is premiered by the Ballets Russes in Paris

Arnold Schoenberg sets Pierrot Lunaire for a solo voice, reciting the text to the accompaniment of a quintet

The Berlin Opera Ballet is founded to perform in the city's new opera house

Memphis Blues is composed by 'father of the blues' W.C. Handy

The opera Ariadne auf Naxos, by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, has its first premiere in Stuttgart

Ethel Smyth, in Holloway jail, conducts her fellow prisoners in a suffragette anthem composed by herself