1900 in British music

none 1900 1900 British music This is a summary of 1900 in music in the United Kingdom. Events 3 March – Joseph Holbrooke‘s orchestral tone poem The Raven is given at the Crystal Palace – the first major recognition for the 22 year-old composer after leaving the Royal Academy of Music three years earlier. 22 March – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor conducts all three parts of his Hiawatha trilogy of works for chorus and orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, including the first performance of part three, Hiawatha's Departure.Slonimsky Nicolas Music Since 1900, 5th ed. Schirmer 1994 April – Charles Villiers Stanford resigns from the Irish Literary Society in protest at anti-monarchist sentiments expressed by W. B. Yeats. Rodmell Paul Charles Villiers Stanford Routledge Abingdon, Oxon 2017 9781351572262 390 25 June – Charles Villiers Stanford's cantata, The Last Post, is privately premièred at Buckingham Palace. Rodmell Paul Charles Villiers Stanford Routledge Abingdon, Oxon 2017 9781351572255 28 June – Frederick Cowen's Concertstuck for piano and orchestra, written in 1897, is performed by the Polish pianist Paderewski at Queen's Hall in a Royal Philharmonic Society concert. 19 August – The first performance of the Pelléas et Mélisande suite, compiled from incidental music written in 1897 by William Wallace, takes place at The Tower, New Brighton. 2 October – The Soldier's Tent for baritone and orchestra by Hubert Parry is performed for the first time, in Birmingham.Jeremy Dibble. Notes to Hyperion CDA67065 (1999) 3 October – Edward Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius receives its première in Birmingham. Grimley Daniel The Cambridge companion to Elgar Cambridge University Press Cambridge New York 2004 9780521826235 87 8 November – The Piano Quintet in C, Op. 6 by Donald Tovey is performed for the first time at St James's Hall in London. 22 November – An honorary doctorate in music is conferred on Edward Elgar by the University of Cambridge. 27 November – The Sérénade lyrique for small orchestra by Edward Elgar, composed in 1899, is performed in its orchestral version for the first time at St. James' Hall, London.Sérénade lyrique at Christie's Books and Manuscripts unknown date – Arnold Bax enters the Royal Academy of Music. Klein Axel Irish classical recordings : a discography of Irish art music Greenwood Press Westport, Conn 2001 9780313317422 204 Popular music "I Love You, Ma Cherie", words and music by Paul Rubens, music by Edward Elgar. Stratyner Barbara Popular music, 1900-1919 : an annotated guide to American popular songs, including introductory essay, lyricists and composers index, important performances index, chronological index, and list of publishers Gale Research Inc Detroit, Mich 1988 9780810325951 146 "Violets", words by Julian Fane, music by Ellen Wright. Sanjek Russell American Popular Music and Its Business, Volume II : the First Four Hundred Years Volume II: From 1790 to 1909 Oxford University Press New York 1988 9780190243296 Classical music: new works Frederic Austin – Overture to Richard II, for orchestraCompleted 30 Aug 1900; 1st performance 12 Dec 1901, by Bournemouth Municipal Orch. under Dan Godfrey. Source: original Concert Programme Granville Bantock – Thalaba the Destroyer (Tone Poem No. 1) Rutland Boughton – The Chilterns, symphonic suite Hurd Michael Rutland Boughton and the Glastonbury festivals Clarendon Press Oxford University Press Oxford England New York 1993 9780198163169 16 Havergal Brian – Tragic Overture Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Hiawatha's Departure, cantataWise Music Edward Elgar – The Dream of Gerontius Edward German – Nell Gwynne, incidental musicScore at IMSLP Joseph Holbrooke The Raven Musgrave Michael The musical life of the Crystal Palace Cambridge University Press Cambridge England New York 1995 9780521375627 127 Variations on 'Three Blind Mice''', for orchestraVariations on 'The Girl I Left Behind Me' for orchestra Gustav HolstAve Maria for eight-part female choirSuite de BalletSymphony in F major "The Cotswolds" Block Tomas Singing in the Sunlight: A Study in Selected Early Works by Gustav Holst University of Göteborg 2000 18 Hamish MacCunn – The Masque of War and Peace Saylor Eric The sea in the British musical imagination Boydell Press Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K. Rochester, N.Y 2015 9781783270620 112 Sir John Blackwood McEwen – Graih My Chree, Recitation Music for 2 violins, viola, cello, piano and percussion Hubert Parry – Agamemnon, incidental musicScore at IMSLP Percy Pitt – Ballade for violin and orchestraChamier J. Daniel 1938 Percy Pitt of Covent Garden and the BBC London Edwin Arnold & Co. https://archive.org/details/percypittofcoven007750mbp 226 Cyril Scott – Symphony No. 1 Ralph Vaughan Williams – Bucolic Suite for orchestraOxford University Press William Wallace – Jacobite Songs, for voice and orchestraBoston Symphony Orchestra - Programme. United States: The Orchestra, 1917. OperaKain, with music by Eugen d'Albert and libretto by Heinrich Bulthaupt (premièred in Berlin, Germany) LastName FirstName Encyclopaedia Judaica Encyclopaedia Judaica Keter Pub. House Jerusalem 1996 9789650702519 25 Musical theatre 3 February – The Messenger Boy, by James T. Tanner and Alfred Murray, with lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, and music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton (additional numbers by Paul Rubens), opens at the Gaiety Theatre, and runs for 428 performances. Davis Tracy The performing century : nineteenth-century theatre's history Palgrave Macmillan Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire England New York 2007 9780230589483 84 26 April – Pretty Polly, by Basil Hood, with music by François Cellier, opens at the Theatre Royal, Colchester, as a companion piece to Hood and Sir Arthur Sullivan's The Rose of Persia. It later moves to the Savoy Theatre, for a run of 26 performances from 19 May 1900 to 28 June 1900, and from 8 December 1900 to 20 April 1901 along with the first revival of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1881 hit, Patience'', a run of 102 performances.The Green Room Book not known 1909 255 Births 23 January – William Ifor Jones, composer (d. 1988)Who is who in Music: A Complete Presentation of the Contemporary Musical Scene, with a Master Record Catalogue Lee Stern Press 1940 242 3 February – Mabel Mercer, English-born singer and actress (d. 1984)Smith Jessie Carney Notable Black American Women Gale Research 1992 470 6 February – Guy Warrack, composer, music educator and conductor (d. 1986)Obituary, The Musical Times, Vol. 127, No. 1718 (May 1986), p. 291 2 June – David Wynne, Welsh composer (d. 1983)https://biography.wales/article/s10-WYNN-DAV-1900 David Wynne Rhidian Griffiths Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 2 May 2016 10 July – Evelyn Laye, actress and singer (d. 1996)The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music Glebb Lloyd-Lincoln Abbey Guinness Pub. 1995 2421 12 September – Eric Thiman, composer (d. 1975) Humphreys Maggie Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland Mansell London Herndon, VA 1997 9780720123302 336 17 December – George Lambert, operatic baritone and teacher (d. 1971)https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/george-lambert-emc George Lambert The Canadian Encyclopedia 23 August 2021 22 December – Alan Bush, pianist, composer and conductor (d. 1995) Bush Nancy Alan Bush : music, politics and life Thames London 2000 9780905210834 8 Deaths 22 January – David Edward Hughes, musician and inventor, 68 David Hughes Encyclopædia Britannica online Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. 2014 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/274915/David-Hughes April 11, 2015 13 March – Alicia Ann Spottiswoode, songwriter, 89 Royle Trevor The Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature Macmillan Education UK Imprint Palgrave London 1984 9781349075874 285 28 May – George Grove, compiler of the well-known dictionary of music, 79Young, Percy M. "Grove, Sir George (1820–1900)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, May 2006 accessed 2 November 2010 22 November – Sir Arthur Sullivan, composer, 58 (kidney disease)Jacobs, Arthur. "Sullivan, Sir Arthur Seymour (1842–1900)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004 (online edition, May 2006), accessed 8 July 2008 8 December – Henry Russell, pianist, baritone singer and composerRussell, Henry (1812-1900) Frederick George Edwards See also 1900 in the United Kingdom References nb British Music, 1900 in Music Category:British music by year Category:1900s in British music