1903 in music

Events

• February 11 - Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony premieres in Vienna
• Enrico Caruso joins cast of New York's Metropolitain Opera Company and makes first records for the Victor Talking Machine Company
• Mississippi John Hurt begins performing
• Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland[?]" premieres

Top Hits

• "My Hula Lula Girl" by Jean Schwartz & William Jerome
• "Under the Anheuser Bush" by Harry Von Tilzer & Andrew B. Sterling[?]
• "Mother o' Mine!" by Rudyard Kipling
• "Bedelia (The Irish Coon Song Serenade)" by Jean Schwartz & William Jerome
• "Lazy Moon" by Bob Cole[?]
• "The Burning of Rome" by E.T. Paull[?]
• "Dear Old Girl" by Richard Henry Buck[?]
• "Always in the Way" by Charles Harris[?]
• "Hannah!" by Joseph Farrell[?]
• "Navajo" by Harry Williams[?]
• "Palm Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin
• "Summer Breeze March & Two-Step" by James Scott
• "Jack Tar March" by John Philip Sousa

Births

• January 4 - Carroll Gibbons[?]
• March 10 - Bix Beiderbecke
• September 15 - Roy Acuff[?]
• October 10 - Vladimir Dukelsky[?]

Deaths