1902 in music

Events

• June 9 - the first complete performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3 is given in Krefeld
• Leadbelly begins performing

Top Hits

• "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home" by Huey Cannon
• "In The Good Old Summer Time" by Ren Shields & George Evans
• "Jennie Lee" by Arthur Lamb[?]
• "Mister Dooley" by Jean Schwartz & William Jerome
• "Under the Bamboo" Tree by Bob Cole[?], James Weldon Johnson & J. Rosamond Johnson[?]
• "I'm Unlucky" by William Jerome
• "Because" by Edward Teschemacher[?]
• "In Dear Old Illinois" by Paul Dresser[?]
• "Pomp and Circumstance" by Edward Elgar
• "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin

Births

• March 16 - Leon Roppolo
• March 21 - Son House

Deaths