1901 in British music

none 1901 1901 British music This is a summary of 1901 in music in the United Kingdom. Events 1 January – The ballet Soldiers of the Queen, with 250 costumed dancers representing the Queen’s parade, opens at the Alhambra Theatre in London. It is a huge success, fueled by the patriotism surrounding the Boar War.Catherine Hindson. London's West End Actresses and the Origins of Celebrity (2016), p. 227 14 March – The String Quartet in B flat by Frank Bridge is performed for the first time at the Royal College of Music, London. It won the Sullivan Prize. 21 March – Tritons a piece for orchestra by the 21 year-old John Ireland, is performed for the first time in Alexandra House, London, conducted by Charles Villiers Stanford. 27 March – The Symphony No 4, Greeting to the New Century by William Wallace, is given its first performance at the Queen’s Hall, London. 4 April – The Serenade for small orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams is performed for the first time at the Winter Gardens in Bournemouth. April – Lucy Broadwood is a judge at the Westmoreland Festival.Jeffrey Green Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life https://books.google.com/books?id=c-Y5CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA108 6 October 2015 Routledge 978-1-317-32263-4 108 May – Australian composer Percy Grainger arrives in the UK with his mother, Rose, after a stay in Germany. Bird John Percy Grainger Faber & Faber London 1982 978-0-571-11717-8 39–41 30 May – Much Ado About Nothing, an opera in four acts by Charles Villiers Stanford, is produced at Covent Garden in London.Slonimsky Nicolas Music Since 1900, 5th ed. Schirmer 1994 31 May – The Bechstein Hall, later renamed the Wigmore Hall, opens with a concert featuring Ferruccio Busoni (piano) and Eugène Ysaÿe (violin). Other artists using the hall in the early days include Percy Grainger, Arthur Rubinstein, Camille Saint-Saëns and Max Reger. 20 June – At Queen's Hall, Edward Elgar conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the world premiere of his concert-overture Cockaigne (In London Town). 22 June – Gustav Holst marries soprano Isobel Harrison at Fulham Register Office. Holmes Paul 1998 Holst Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers London Omnibus Press 650194212 29 19 October – No 1 and No 2 Pomp and Circumstance Marches, Op. 39 by Edward Elgar are performed for the first time in Liverpool. 26 October – the concert overture Toussaint L’Ouverture by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is performed for the first time in London. 29 October – Percy Grainger gives his first solo piano recital in London, at Steinway Hall. 7 November – The first performance of Percy Pitt’s Dance Rhythms, op 33, takes place at the Queen's Hall Proms, conducted by Sir Henry Wood. 21 November – The Piano Quartet in E minor, op. 12 by Donald Tovey is played for the first time at St James’s Hall in London. date unknown John Ireland graduates from the Royal College of Music.Lewis Foreman The John Ireland Companion https://books.google.com/books?id=I4LxscBzNLYC&pg=PA304 2011 Boydell & Brewer Ltd 978-1-84383-686-5 304 Ralph Vaughan Williams formally receives the degree of Doctor of Music from Cambridge University. Kennedy Michael The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams 1980 second 1964 Oxford Oxford University Press 978-0-19-315453-7 44 Popular music "Come, Gentle Night!", words by Clifton Bingham, music by Edward Elgar.C. A. Mathew David Webb Alison Carpenter The eastern fringe of the City: a photographic tour of the Bishopsgate area in 1912 https://books.google.com/books?id=YUpLAAAAMAAJ January 1974 Bishopsgate Institute "In the Dawn", words by A. C. Benson, music by Edward Elgar.A. C. Benson, "The Professor and Other Poems", London and New York, John Lane, 1900 Classical music: new works Herbert Brewer – EmmausJerrold Northrop Moore Edward Elgar: A Creative Life https://books.google.com/books?id=WRULnIDJRH8C&pg=PA349 1999 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-816366-4 349 Frank Bridge Scherzo Phantastick Berceuse for viola or cello and piano Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – IdyllSamuel Coleridge-Taylor Symphony in A minor, opus 8: With the earlier finales and Idyll, opus 44 https://books.google.com/books?id=A5jkAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA189 1 January 2013 A-R Editions, Inc. 978-0-89579-773-5 189 Edward Elgar – Cockaigne (In London Town) Joseph Holbrooke – Queen MabPaul Watt Anne-Marie Forbes Joseph Holbrooke: Composer, Critic, and Musical Patriot https://books.google.com/books?id=3riuBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA201 23 December 2014 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 978-0-8108-8892-0 201 Opera Frederick Delius – A Village Romeo and Juliet (later revised, not performed until 1907)Nicole V. Gagné Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music https://books.google.com/books?id=ppHoEX_6v10C&pg=PA76 2012 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-6765-9 76 Charles Villiers Stanford – Much Ado About Nothinghttps://books.google.com/books?id=VevXghb1SwoC&dq=Charles+Villiers+Stanford+Much+Ado+about+Nothing+libretto&pg=PA334 Dibble Jeremy Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician Oxford Oxford University Press 2002 0-19-816383-5 333 Musical theatre 17 June – The Toreador, with book by James T. Tanner and Harry Nicholls, music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton, and lyrics by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, opens at the Gaiety Theatre (later moving to the Comedy Theatre, and runs for 675 performances.Alexander Schouvaloff The Theatre Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum https://books.google.com/books?id=JCBcAAAAMAAJ 1987 Scala 9780935748765 18 December – Bluebell in Fairyland, with book by Seymour Hicks, with music by Walter Slaughter and lyrics by Aubrey Hopwood and Charles H. Taylor, opens at the Vaudeville Theatre, and runs for 300 performances.http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_b/bluebellinfairyland.html Bluebell in Fairyland Guide to Musical Theatre 24 January 2019 Births 23 May – Edmund Rubbra, composer (died 1986)Biography Index Entry http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101040198/ Oxford 5 March 2008 10 June – Eric Maschwitz (Holt Marvell), lyricist and broadcast executive (died 1969)Eric Maschwitz No Chip on My Shoulder https://books.google.com/books?id=vp5AAAAAIAAJ 1957 H. Jenkins 14 July – Gerald Finzi, composer (died 1956).McVeagh, Diana. (2013). Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music. Boydell Press 978-1843836025 9 September – James Blades, orchestral percussionist (died 1999)https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-james-blades-1095585.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-james-blades-1095585.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Obituary: James Blades 24 May 1999 Graham Melville-Mason The Independent 17 January 2019 26 December – Victor Hely-Hutchinson, South African-born composer and radio executive (died 1947)David Mason Greene Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&pg=PA1318 1985 Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. 978-0-385-14278-6 1318 date unknown – Ivor R. Davies, organist and composer (died 1970)Musical Opinion – Volume 94 – Page 483 1970 OBITUARY Ivor R. Davies, F.R.C.O., LJLA.M. Deaths 11 February – Henry Willis, organ builder, 79Douglas Earl Bush Richard Kassel The Organ: An Encyclopedia https://books.google.com/books?id=cgDJaeFFUPoC&pg=PA630 2006 Psychology Press 978-0-415-94174-7 630 31 March – Sir John Stainer, organist and composer, 60Dibble Jeremy Jeremy Dibble http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=9607 John Stainer: A life in music 2007 Boydell & Brewer Woodbridge, Suffolk 978-1-84383-297-3 308 2021-08-23 2014-10-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20141027221919/http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=9607 dead 3 April – Richard D'Oyly Carte, producer of Gilbert & Sullivan, 56Jacobs, Arthur. "Carte, Richard D'Oyly (1844–1901)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004, accessed 12 September 2008, 10.1093/ref:odnb/32311 14 April – Alice Barnett, singer and actress, 54Stone, David. Alice Barnett at Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte, Retrieved 14 June 2010 June – Abel Jones (Bardd Crwst), balladeer, age unknown (born 1830)https://biography.wales/article/s-JONE-ABE-1830 JONES, ABEL (Bardd Crwst; 1830-1901), ballad writer and strolling ballad singer Robert Thomas Jenkins Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 24 January 2019 23 June – Charles Kensington Salaman, pianist and composer, 87Devonshire, (1901). Charles Salaman, The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol. 42, No. 702 (Aug. 1, 1901), pp. 530–533. 22 October – Frederic Archer, organist, conductor and composer, 63Pittsburg Organist's Life Ended The Pittsburg Press 22 Oct 1901 1 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LxMbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jkgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1463%2C8521 See also 1901 in the United Kingdom References nb British Music, 1902 in Music Category:British music by year Category:1900s in British music