1904 in British music

none September 2019 1904 1904 British music This is a summary of 1904 in music in the United Kingdom. Events 7 January - The first performance of the Nonet for Four Voices, Four Strings and Pianoforte by Henry Walford Davies, with the composer at the piano, takes place at the St James's Hall in London. 14 March - The opening of a three-day Elgar Festival at Covent Garden - the first time such as event has been put on for a living English composer - which concludes on 16 March with the first performance of the orchestral work In the South.Byron Adams Edward Elgar and His World https://books.google.com/books?id=1HwkaWiwOc4C&pg=PA205 14 November 2011 Princeton University Press 978-1-4008-3210-1 205 20 May - Frank Bridge conducts the first performance of his symphonic poem, Mid of the Night at the St James’ Hall in London. 9 June - The London Symphony Orchestra puts on its inaugural concert under the direction of Hans Richter at the Queen’s Hall. The program includes music by Wagner, Bach, Mozart, Elgar and Liszt, concluding with Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. 5 July - Edward Elgar is knighted at the King’s investiture. 15 July – Soprano Agnes Nicholls marries conductor Hamilton Harty.David Clive Greer Hamilton Harty: his life and music https://books.google.com/books?id=2bgZAQAAIAAJ 1978 Da Capo Press 978-0-306-76015-0 20 August – The UK premiere of Claude Debussy‘s Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune takes place at the Proms in the Queen’s Hall, nearly ten years after its premiere in Paris. Debussy’s music was not well known in the UK until the late Edwardian period. 7 September – The Love that Casteth Out Fear, a “sinfonia sacra” for contralto, bass, semi-chorus and orchestra by Sir Hubert Parry, is performed for the first time in Gloucester.Slonimsky Nicolas Music Since 1900, 5th ed. Schirmer 1994 21 September – The first performance of Edward German's Welsh Rhapsody, conducted by the composer, takes place at the Cardiff Music Festival. 6 October – Everyman, a choral cantata by Sir Henry Walford Davies, is premiered at the Leeds Festival, conducted by Charles Stanford.Colles, H. C. "Walford Davies", Music & Letters, July 1941, pp. 199–207 Other premieres at the Leeds Festival in October include Queen Mab, a poem for chorus and orchestra by Joseph Holbrooke, Five Songs of the Sea by Stanford. The Witches Daughter by Alexander Mackenzie and A Ballad of Dundee by Charles Wood. 26 November – The first performance of Joseph Holbrooke’s orchestral tone poem Ulalume is conducted by the composer at the Queen’s Hall. date unknown Albert Coates makes his début as conductor of the Leipzig opera with Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann.Liner notes to EMI CD CZS 5 75486 2 (Albert Coates: Great Conductors of the Twentieth Century series), EMI 2002 Cecil Sharp produces the first volume of his Folk Songs from Somerset.Maud Karpeles Cecil Sharp: His Life and Work https://books.google.com/books?id=FxTaAAAAMAAJ 1967 Routledge & K. Paul Popular music "Fu' The Noo", with words by. Harry Lauder & Gerald Grafton and music by Harry Lauder Classical music: new works Edward Elgar – Canto Popolare Hamilton Harty – An Irish SymphonyRichard Pine The Disappointed Bridge: Ireland and the Post-Colonial World https://books.google.com/books?id=M6IxBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA160 2 June 2014 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 978-1-4438-6098-7 160 Joseph Holbrooke – Horn Trio Herbert Hughes – Songs of Uladh Cyril Scott – Rhapsody for orchestra No. 1 Ralph Vaughan Williams – In the Fen CountryKennedy Michael Michael Kennedy (music critic) 1992 The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams Oxford University Press 978-0-19-816330-5 84 Opera Frederick Delius – Koanga (premièred 30 March in Germany)Anderson Robert Sadie Stanley The New Grove Dictionary of Opera Koanga 1992 Macmillan 2 London 0-333-48552-1 1013 Musical theatre 5 March – The Cingalee, by Lionel Monckton, Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, opens at Daly's Theatre; it runs for 365 performances.J. P. Wearing "Productions 1904: The Cingalee; or, Sunny Ceylon", The London Stage 1900–1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel (2nd edition, Scarecrow Press; 5 December 2013), p. 176 9 September – The Catch of the Season by Seymour Hicks and Cosmo Hamilton, with music by Herbert Haines and Evelyn Baker and lyrics by Charles H. Taylor, opens at the Vaudeville Theatre; it runs for 621 performances.Show Girldom's Zenith in New Musical Play The New York Times 1905-08-29 5 Births 13 January – Richard Addinsell, composer (died 1977)Randel Don Michael The Harvard biographical dictionary of music 1996 Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press Cambridge, Massachusetts 0-674-37299-9 5 Addinsell, Richard (Stewart) registration https://archive.org/details/harvardbiographi00rand/page/5 29 February – H. Hugh Bancroft, organist, choirmaster and composer (died 1988)https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/hugh-bancroft-emc Hugh Bancroft Anderson Jeffrey The Canadian Encyclopedia 19 September 2017 15 or 16 May – Eda Kersey, violinist (died 1944)The Cooper Collection 26 May – George Formby, music hall performer, singer, actor and songwriter (died 1961) 10 August – Herbert Kennedy Andrews, organist and composer (died 1965)http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=5656&inst_id=25 ANDREWS, Herbert Kennedy (1904-1965) AIM25 collection 15 June 2018 15 June 2018 29 November 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141129021655/http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=5656&inst_id=25 dead 23 August – William Primrose, violist (died 1982) 17 September – Sir Frederick Ashton, dancer and choreographer (died 1988) 20 October – Anna Neagle, actress and singer (died 1986) 29 October – Vivian Ellis, composer (died 1996)18 June 2009 http://www.rfsoc.org.uk/vellis.shtml Vivian Ellis Robert Farnon Society https://web.archive.org/web/20091227073604/http://www.rfsoc.org.uk/vellis.shtml 2009-12-27 dead His date of birth is frequently given as 1904 but the Births, Marriages and Deaths Index gives 1903 as the year of registration. 30 November – Bretton Byrd, film composer (died 1959) 9 December – Elsie Randolph, actress, dancer and singer (died 1982) Deaths 20 March – Louisa Pyne, operatic soprano and opera company manager, 75The Times, 22 March 1904 29 April – Nellie Farren, burlesque actress and singer, 56 (heart failure)Farren, Ellen 2 12–14 John Parker 30 May – Laura Joyce Bell, contralto singer and actress, 50The New York Times, "Laura Joyce Bell Dead." 30 May 1904, p. 5 20 July – Arthur Lloyd, singer, songwriter, comedian and impresario, 65Richard Anthony Baker British Music Hall: An Illustrated History https://books.google.com/books?id=mtKwBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA25 31 May 2014 Pen and Sword 978-1-4738-3718-8 25– 31 October – Dan Leno, English music hall comedian, clog dancer and singer, 43"Death of Dan Leno", Western Times, 1 November 1904, p. 5 See also 1904 in the United Kingdom References nb British Music, 1904 in Music Category:British music by year Category:1900s in British music