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1900
 
    
Gustave Charpentier's opera Louise has Paris premiere at the Opéra-Comique       
c. 1900
 
   
The Welsh painter Augustus John becomes Britain's most famous bohemian      
Augustus John, by William Orpen, c.1900
National Portrait Gallery, London

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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
 
    
A change of palette by Pablo Picasso takes him into what becomes known as his Blue Period       
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       
1901
 
    
Frederick Delius completes his opera A Village Romeo and Juliet, but it is not performed until 1907 in Berlin       
1901
 
     
Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs the interior of Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea Rooms in Glasgow        
1902
 
    
Ebenezer Howard republishes his earlier book of 1898 as Garden Cities of Tomorrow