Composer events for 1906
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Birthdays
- Berta Alves de Sousa ()
- Walter Gronostay ()
- Benjamin Frankel (31 January)
- Yves Baudrier (11 February)
- Grace Williams (19 February)
- Alejandro Garcia Caturla (7 March)
- Antal Dorati (9 April)
- Leopold Spinner (26 April)
- Padre Luís de Sousa Rodrigues (6 July)
- Elisabeth Lutyens (9 July)
- Klaus Egge (19 July)
- Daniel Ayala-Pérez (21 July)
- Armando José Fernandes (26 July)
- Ludovit Rajter (30 July)
- Franz Xaver Biebl (1 September)
- Alexander Moyzes (4 September)
- Bertus van Lier (10 September)
- Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich (25 September)
- Jaroslav Ježek (25 September)
- Janis Ivanovs (9 October)
- Paul Creston (10 October)
- Kees van Baaren (22 October)
- Louise (Victoria) Talma (31 October)
- Arnold (Atkinson) Cooke (4 November)
- Boris Tikhonovich Kozhevnikov (30 November)
- Fernando Lopes Graça (17 December)
- Ross Lee Finney (23 December)
Dying days
- Anton Stepanovich Arensky (25 February)
- John Knowles Paine (25 April)
- William Yeates Hurlstone (30 May)
Music events
- Premiere of Images book 1, in Paris, France. (3 March) → Claude Debussy
- Premiere of Die Vier Grobiane, in Munich, Germany. (19 March) → Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
- Premiere of Rhapsodie Espagnole, in Paris, France. (28 March) → Maurice Ravel
- Premiere of Chopiniana/Les Sylphides, in St. Petersburg, Russia. (6 April) → Alexander Glazunov
- Premiere of Sea Drift, in Essen, Germany. (24 May) → Frederick Delius
- Premiere of Symphony no. 6 in a minor, in Essen, Germany, with Mahler conducting. (27 May) → Gustav Mahler
- Recording of the “Blue Danube Arabesque”, Welte-Mignon Piano Roll No.1305, with Josef Lhevinne at the piano. (6 October) → Andrey Schulz-Evler
- Premiere of Das Christ-Elflein, in Munich, Germany. (11 December) → Hans Pfitzner
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