Events April 26 - Jean Sibelius's Symphony No. 1 is premiered in Helsinki June 19 - Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations are premiered in London Ragtime music enjoys mainstream popularity in the United States Published popular music "Absent" w. Catherine Young Glen m. John W. Metcalf "Always!" w. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers "Cake Walk In The Sky" by Ben Harney "Come Home Dewey We Won't Do A Thing To You" w.m. Paul Dresser "A Coon Band Contest" m. Arthur Pryor "Cotton Pickers Rag & Cakewalk" by William Braun "Doan Ye Cry, Mah Honey" w.m. Alfred W. Noll "Hands Across The Sea" m. John Philip Sousa "Hearts And Flowers" w. Mary D. Brine m. Theodore Moses Tobani "Hello! Ma Baby" w.m. Ida Emerson & Joseph E. Howard "I'd Leave My Happy Home For You" w. Will A. Heelan m. Harry Von Tilzer "If Only You Were Mine" w. Harry B. Smith m. Victor Herbert "I'll Be Your Sweetheart" w.m. Harry Dacre "Impecunious Davis" by Kerry Mills "Mandy Lee" w.m. Thurland Chattaway "Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin "Mosquito Parade" m. Howard Whitney "My Little Georgia Rose" w. Robert F. Roden m. Max S. Witt "My Wild Irish Rose" w.m. Chauncey Olcott "O Sole Mio!" w. Giovanni Capurro m. Edoardo di Capua "A Picture No Artist Can Paint" w.m. J. Fred Helf "She Was Happy Till She Met You" w. Charles Graham m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld "Smoky Mokes" m. Abe Holzmann "Stay In Your Own Back Yard" w. Karl Kennett m. Lyn Udall "The Story Of The Rose" (aka "Heart Of My Heart") w. "Alice" m. Andrew Mack "There's Where My Heart Is Tonight" w.m. Paul Dresser "Where The Sweet Magnolias Grow" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer "Whistling Rufus" w. W. Murdock Lind m. Kerry Mills Musical theater El Capitan London production Floradora London production Helter-Skelter Broadway production The Rogers Brothers In Wall Street Broadway production San Toy London production Births April 29 - Duke Ellington July 1 - Thomas A. Dorsey, father of gospel music Deaths