1905 in British music

none 1905 1905 British music This is a summary of 1905 in music in the United Kingdom. Events 2 January – Hans Richter conducts the Hallé Orchestra in Sibelius’ Second Symphony, the first performance in Britain of any Sibelius symphony. 15 February – The first two Dante Rhapsodies, Op. 92 by Charles Villiers Stanford ('Beatrice' and 'Capaneo'), are performed for the first time in the Bechstein Hall by Percy Grainger. The third, 'Francesca', is performed at the next concert on 25 March. 27 February – The Knights of the Road, an operetta by Sir Alexander Mackenzie, is produced in London at the Palace Theatre.Slonimsky Nicolas Music Since 1900, 5th ed. Schirmer 1994 1 March – Incidental music to The Clouds (Aristophanes) by Hubert Parry is performed for the first time at the University of Oxford. 2 March – The first performance of York Bowen‘s Concertstück for Clarinet, Horn, String Quartet and Piano takes place at the Aeolian Hall in London with the composer at the piano. 8 March – Sir Edward Elgar conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in the first performance of his Introduction and Allegro for string quartet and string orchestra, and of his third Pomp and Circumstance March. Arnold Bax is in the audience.Slonimsky Nicolas Music Since 1900, 5th ed. Schirmer 1994 10 March – Thomas Dunhill‘s Piano Quintet in C minor, op 20, is first performed at the Bechstein Hall. 16 March – In the first of a series of Birmingham lectures entitled A Future for English Music, Edward Elgar attacks some current English composers, without actually naming them, and points to the poor reputation that English music has abroad. Formerly friends, Elgar and Stanford cease communication.Edward Elgar. A Future for English Music, and Other Lectures, Dobson, 1968 March – Percy Grainger attends a lecture by Lucy Broadwood and becomes interested in collecting folk songs.Tim Rayborn A New English Music: Composers and Folk Traditions in England's Musical Renaissance from the Late 19th to the Mid–20th Century https://books.google.com/books?id=cEH8CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA199 15 April 2016 McFarland 978-1-4766-2494-5 199– 4 April – The first performance of an orchestral work by Arnold Bax, Connemara Revel, is performed at the Queen’s Hall, as part of a student concert put on by the Royal Academy of Music. 11 April – Percy Grainger visits Brigg in Lincolnshire and notes down his first folks songs. 24 April – The incidental music Pan’s Anniversary (Jonson) by Ralph Vaughan Williams is performed for the first time at Bancroft Gardens, Stratford-upon-Avon conducted by the composer. Gustav Holst contributes orchestrations of keyboard music and traditional melodies. 20 May – The Capriccio No 1 for piano by Frank Bridge is performed for the first time in the Bechstein Hall. soloist Mark Hambourg. 9 June – Edward Elgar and his wife board The Deutschland at Dover for a voyage to America. They arrive in New York six days later. 15 June – A Sea Idyll for piano by Frank Bridge is performed for the first time, in the Bechstein Hall. 28 June – Edward Elgar receives an honorary doctorate at Yale University. Yale music professor, Horatio Parker plays Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 on the organ. 29 June – The Mystic Trumpeter, Op. 18 for soprano and orchestra by Gustav Holst, setting Walt Whitman, is performed for the first time in Queen’s Hall, conducted by the composer. 11 July – Edward Elgar and his wife board ship in New York bound for Liverpool. 24 July – At the Grand Hotel, Eastbourne, Claude Debussy begins a five-week stay (until 30 August), escaping the scandal at home surrounding his broken marriage. His pregnant mistress, Emma Bardac, accompanies him. While there (in Suite 200, now known as the Debussy Suite), he completed the orchestration of La Mer and made corrections to the score. The first performance takes place in Paris on 15 October, the UK premiere has to wait until 1 February 1908. Debussy also completes another “water” piece while in Eastbourne, Reflets dans l’eau. 28 August – The first performance of Scottish composer Hamish MacCunn‘s dramatic cantata The Wreck of the Hesperus, setting words by Longfellow, tales place at the London Coliseum. There are multiple further performances between August and October. 19 September – The fifth symphonic poem of Scottish composer William Wallace is given at the Queen’s Hall, London. 21 October – The Fantasia on British Sea Songs, arranged by Sir Henry Wood to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of Trafalgar, is performed for the first time, by the Queen's Hall Orchestra at a Promenade Concert.Kennedy Michael & Joyce Rutherford-Johnson Tim Oxford Dictionary of Music 2012 Oxford University Press Oxford 978-0-19-957854-2 279–280Proms 1905, Prom 55 https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e4f8q9 BBC 4 July 2015 25 October – The first performance of Bohemian Songs for baritone and orchestra by Joseph Holbrooke is conducted by the composer at the Norwich Festival. 26 October – The Pied Piper of Hamelin, a cantata by Hubert Parry, setting the poem by Robert Browning, is performed for the first time in Norwich. 29 October – The first concert given by London's New Symphony Orchestra, a player-run orchestra formed mainly from graduates of the Royal College of Music from the 1890s, takes place at the Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill.Oscar Thompson The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians Dodd, Mead 1975 1502 The NSO, associated with the early career of Thomas Beecham, becomes a specialist recording orchestra, and the "house" orchestra of the Gramophone Company between 1909 and 1930. 2 December – At the invitation of Granville Bantock, Jean Sibelius makes his first visit to England, conducting his Symphony No 1 and Finlandia in Liverpool.Jean Sibelius Rosa Newmarch The Correspondence of Jean Sibelius and Rosa Newmarch, 1906-1939 Boydell Press 2011 9781843836834 3 14 December – The first performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Piano Quintet in C minor takes place at the Aeolian Hall. date unknown – German-born George Henschel becomes organist of the German Embassy Church in London.Maggie Humphreys Robert Evans Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=WSLUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA173 1 January 1997 A&C Black 978-0-7201-2330-2 159 Popular music 26 June – Music hall stars Frank Leo and Sable Fern are married in Southwark, and form a double act, two years after the suicide of her estranged husband Walter "Watty" Allan created a scandal. Baker Richard British music hall : an illustrated history Pen and Sword History South Yorkshire, England 2014 9781783831180 129 "I Love a Lassie", by Harry LauderDon Tyler Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era https://books.google.com/books?id=hSCfBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA36 2 April 2007 McFarland 978-0-7864-2946-2 36– "Welcome Home, Sailor Boy!", by C. W. Murphy Classical music: new works Benjamin Dale – Piano SonataMaggie Humphreys Robert Evans Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=WSLUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA173 1 January 1997 A&C Black 978-0-7201-2330-2 85 Frederick Delius A Mass of Life (part 1) Violin Sonata no 1Mary Christison Huismann Frederick Delius: A Research and Information Guide https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ5J-YD9-WEC&pg=PA7 2009 Routledge 978-0-415-99364-7 7– Edward Elgar – Introduction and Allegro for Strings Charles Villiers Stanford – Serenade in F major Ralph Vaughan Williams – Songs of TravelAlain Frogley Aidan J. Thomson The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams https://books.google.com/books?id=1ROAAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA106 14 November 2013 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-19768-7 106– Haydn Wood – Phantasy String Quartet Opera Amherst Webber – FiorellaPaul Rodmell Opera in the British Isles, 1875–1918 https://books.google.com/books?id=q8woDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT426 13 May 2016 Taylor & Francis 978-1-317-08544-7 426– Musical theatre 30 May – The Spring Chicken, with music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton and lyrics by Adrian Ross, Percy Greenbank and George Grossmith, opens at the Gaety Theatre; it runs for 401 performances.http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/london_shows_chronology/1905.htm 1905 The Guide to Musical Theatre 13 June 2018 31 August – The White Chrysanthemum, by Leedham Bantock, Arthur Anderson and Howard Talbot, premièred in Newcastle the previous year, opens at the Criterion Theatre in London's West End, where it runs for 179 performances.http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_w/whitechrysanthemum.html The White Chrysanthemum The Guide to Musical Theatre 2 September 2021 Births 2 January – Michael Tippett, composer (died 1998)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-sir-michael-tippett-1137828.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-sir-michael-tippett-1137828.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Obituary: Sir Michael Tippett 10 January 1998 Paul Driver The Independent 5 March 2019 5 February – Clifton Parker, theatre and film composer (died 1989)Winchester's Screen Encyclopedia Winchester Publications 1948 151 11 March – Michael Carr, composer and songwriter (died 1968)Evelyn Mack Truitt Who was who on screen https://books.google.com/books?id=irZmAAAAMAAJ 1 July 1977 Bowker 978-0-8352-0914-4 71 5 April – Charles Proctor, conductor, pianist, composer, (died 1996) 2 May – Alan Rawsthorne, composer (died 1971)David Mason Greene Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&pg=PA1344 1985 Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. 978-0-385-14278-6 1344 2 May – Mátyás Seiber (died 1960) 23 August – Constant Lambert, composer (died 1951)Bruce R. Schueneman Minor Ballet Composers: Biographical Sketches of Sixty-six Underappreciated Yet Significant Contributors to the Body of Western Ballet Music https://books.google.com/books?id=Oq5uQJS7-8cC&pg=PA54 1997 Psychology Press 978-0-7890-0323-2 54 7 November – William Alwyn, composer (died 1985)John C. Dressler William Alwyn: A Research and Information Guide https://books.google.com/books?id=D8-oAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1 March 2013 Routledge 978-1-136-66003-0 1 30 October – Christian Darnton, composer (died 1981) 21 November – Ted Ray, comedian and violinist (died 1977)British Film and Television Yearbook https://books.google.com/books?id=Y7cQAAAAIAAJ 1956 British and American Film Press 45 31 December – Jule Styne, London-born songwriter (died 1994) Tyler Don Music of the postwar era Greenwood Press Westport, Conn 2008 9780313341915 199 date unknown – Fred Hartley, pianist, conductor and composer of light music (died 1980)Fred Hartley piano solos, Celtic Music. Retrieved 17 September 2010 Deaths 12 February – Edward Dannreuther, Strasbourg-born pianist, founder of the English Wagner Society (b. 1844)Randel Don The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&pg=PA196 1996 Harvard University Press 978-0-674-37299-3 196 11 April – David Braham, musical theatre composer (born 1834) Complete Book of the American Musical Theater David Ewen 44–46 Holt 1958 82625-0918 29 June – Herbert Stephen Irons, organist and composer, 71Maggie Humphreys Robert Evans Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=WSLUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA173 1 January 1997 A&C Black 978-0-7201-2330-2 180 20 September – Walter Cecil Macfarren, pianist, composer and conductor, 79Maggie Humphreys Robert Evans Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=WSLUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA173 1 January 1997 A&C Black 978-0-7201-2330-2 219 18 October – Emmie Owen, operatic soprano and actress, 33 (hepatic cirrhosis gastric ulcer)Tony Joseph Emmie Owen and Florence Perry: "maidenly perfection" https://books.google.com/books?id=DAgJAQAAMAAJ 2005 Bunthorne Books 978-0-9507992-7-8 9 December – Henry Holmes, composer and violinist (b. 1839)Maggie Humphreys Robert Evans Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=WSLUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA166 1 January 1997 A&C Black 978-0-7201-2330-2 166 See also 1905 in the United Kingdom References nb British Music, 1905 in Music Category:British music by year Category:1900s in British music