Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky provoke uproar in Paris with The Rite of Spring for Ballets Russes

18-year-old Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad makes her debut in Oslo

Frederick Delius completes On Hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring, first performed this same year in Leipzig

John Ireland sets Masefield's poem Sea Fever to music

The march Colonel Bogey is written and published by a Royal Marine bandleader under the pseudonym Kenneth Alford

Vaughan Williams writes a romance for violin and orchestra, The Lark Ascending, inspired by George Meredith's poem of the same name

The tenor Beniamino Gigli wins an international singing competition in Parma, and makes his operatic debut later in the same year

Vaughan Williams' London Symphony, including picturesque sounds of the city's street life, is first performed

Ivor Novello has a great success with his topical song Keep the Home Fires Burning (with lyrics by Lena Ford)

Manuel de Falla's ballet El Amor Brujo, including the 'Ritual Fire Dance', is performed in Paris

Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag, by George Asaf and Felix Powell, rapidly becomes one of the most popular songs of the day

The opera Goyescas, by Spanish composer Enrique Granados, has its premiere in New York

Enrique Granados, on the last leg of his return from New York, is one of many civilians to die when the Sussex is torpedoed by a U-boat in the English Channel

The success of Jenufa in Prague finally brings international recognition to Leos Janacek, already in his sixties

Manuel de Falla completes his piece for piano and orchestra, Nights in the Gardens of Spain

"If You Were the Only Girl in the World" features in the London musical The Bing Boys are Here

The Passing Show of 1916 is the first of 22 musicals written in the short span of 17 years by the brothers George and Ira Gershwin

Ottorino Respighi completes his symphonic poem for orchestra Fountains of Rome, first performed in Rome the following year

Hubert Parry sets profoundly evocative verses by William Blake and gives his composition the title Jerusalem

Gustav Holst completes his orchestral suite c, not performed in its entirety until 1920

The musical Chu Chin Chow opens at His Majesty's Theatre in London and runs for a record 2235 performances

New York responds with enthusiasm when the Original Dixieland Jazz Band performs a new kind of music in Reisenweber's restaurant

John Ireland's Second Violin Concerto meets with immediate approval

Parade brings together Massine (choreography), Satie (music), Cocteau (libretto) and Picasso (sets and costumes)

Manuel de Falla's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat is produced by Diaghilev with choreography by Massine and designs by Picasso