Timeline April 1902

Events in April 1902 2

• 1902 – 1998 Halldor Laxness (1902-1998) Died 8 February 1998, aged 95 Halldor Laxness, the Icelandic novelist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955 for works including Independent People, died on 8 February 1998. He remains Iceland's most celebrated writer.
• 1902 Pelléas et Mélisande Premieres Debussy's only completed opera opens in Paris Claude Debussy's opera "Pelléas et Mélisande," based on Maurice Maeterlinck's play, premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on April 30. Its impressionistic score influenced the course of 20th-century opera and orchestral music.