1906 in British music

none 1906 1906 British music This is a summary of 1906 in music in the United Kingdom. Events 18 January - The first performance of Charles Villiers Stanford’s Symphony No 6 in Eb major takes place at the Queen’s Hall with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer. 25 January - The Kruse Quartet, supplemented by other players (including Lionel Tertis), give the first performance of Charles Villiers Stanford‘s Nonet at the Aeolian Hall in London.Jeremy Dibble. Notes to Hyperion CDA66291 (1989) 1 March - Nicholas Gatty‘s one-act opera Greysteel has its premiere in Sheffield during the University Opera week. 29 March - The first performance of James Friskin‘s Quintet by the Cathie Quartet takes place at the Aeolian Hall in London. 24 April - The winning three compositions of the 1905 Cobbett Competition for chamber music are performed by The Saunders Quartet at Stationers Hall: William Hurlstone‘s Phantasie for String Quartet (first prize); Haydn Wood‘s Phantasy Quartet (second prize); Frank Bridge‘s Phantasie Quartet (third prize).IMSLP: 1905 Cobbett Competition for Phantasy String Quartet 14 May - The first complete performance in the UK of Coppelia by Delibes is seen at the Empire Theatre, with Adeline Genée in the lead role. 14 June - The first performance of Variations on an African Air by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor takes place at a London Philharmonic Society concert, Queen's Hall, conducted by Frederick Cowen.Slonimsky Nicolas Music Since 1900, 5th ed. Schirmer 1994 23 August - The Norfolk Rhapsody No 1 in E minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams is performed for the first time at the Proms in London. August – Mary Davies is principal soloist at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.Griffith Robert David Davies, Mary (1855–1930) s-DAVI-MAR-1855 9 November 2014 Summer – Australian composer Percy Grainger begins collecting English folk songs with the aid of a phonograph.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=PA201 15 April 2016 McFarland 978-1-4766-2494-5 201– 3 October Hans Richter conducts the first performance of The Bells, a poem for chorus and orchestra by Joseph Holbrooke, at the Birmingham Music Festival. Edward Elgar's oratorio The Kingdom, Op. 51, is first performed at the Birmingham Music Festival, conducted by the composer with soloists Agnes Nicholls, Muriel Foster, John Coates and William Higley. 25 October - Henry Wood conducts the first performance of Joseph Holbrooke’s orchestral suite Les Hommages at Queen’s Hall. 14 November -The Vicar of Wakefield (Goldsmith), a light opera by Liza Lehmann, is produced in London. 15 November - Cyril Scott's orchestral and choral Christmas Overture is performed for the first time by the London Symphony Orchestra.Desmond Scott, Lewis Foreman and Leslie De'Ath (eds.): The Cyril Scott Companion (2018) date unknown Operatic soprano Maggie Teyte makes her public début at a Mozart festival in Paris.https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maggie-Teyte Dame Maggie Teyte Encyclopedia Britannica 23 May 2018 16-year-old Phyllis Dare takes over the leading role in The Belle of Mayfairhttps://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp55405/phyllis-dare Phyllis Dare (1890-1975), Actress National Portrait Gallery 23 May 2018 at the Vaudeville Theatre when Edna May leaves suddenly because of a disagreement with the producer. Composer Lawrence Wright opens a music shop in his home city of Leicester. Popular music "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones" (hymn), with words by Athelstan Riley, first published in The English Hymnal by Oxford University Press, edited by Percy Dearmer and Ralph Vaughan Williams.http://www.hymnary.org/text/ye_watchers_and_ye_holy_ones#worship-ideas Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones: Worship Notes Tiffany Shomsky Hymnary.org 13 April 2017 Classical music: new works Granville Bantock – Sappho, nine fragments with a Prelude Rutland Boughton – Love in Spring, symphonic poem Frank Bridge Three Idylls for String Quartet String Quartet No. 1 in E minor "Bologna" Katharine Emily Eggar – Piano Quartet in D minor and major Edward Elgar – The Kingdom (oratorio) Opera Dame Ethel Smyth & Henry Brewster – The WreckersFuller Sophie DAME ETHEL SMYTH, THE WRECKERS http://americansymphony.org/the-wreckers-1904/ American Symphony Orchestra 17 March 2015 see para 8 30 June 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150630202749/http://americansymphony.org/the-wreckers-1904/ dead Musical theatre 20 June – See See, with music by Sidney Jones, book by Charles H. Brookfield, and lyrics by Adrian Ross, opens at the Prince of Wales Theatre; it runs for 152 performances.http://www.musicaltheatreguide.com/composers/jones/sidney_jones.htm (James) Sidney Jones The Guide to Light Opera and Operetta 22 May 2018 Births 31 January – Benjamin Frankel, composer (died 1973) 19 February – Grace Williams, composer (died 1977) 13 March – Dave Kaye, pianist (died 1996) 22 April – Eric Fenby, composer, conductor, pianist, organist and teacher, amanuensis of Frederick Delius (died 1997)Mary Christison Huismann Frederick Delius: A Research and Information Guide https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ5J-YD9-WEC&pg=PA67 2009 Routledge 978-0-415-99364-7 67 9 July – Elisabeth Lutyens, composer (died 2005) 24 August – Walter Braithwaite, composer (died 1991) 4 November – Arnold Cooke, composer (died 1983)The Double Reed https://books.google.com/books?id=UGMJAQAAMAAJ 2006 International Double Reed Society 23 November – Mervyn Roberts, Welsh composer Deaths 9 May – Helen Lemmens-Sherrington, concert and operatic soprano (born 1834)Davey, Henry. "Lemmens-Sherrington, Madame Helen (1834–1906)", Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 1912, online edition retrieved 17 April 2014 14 June – George Herbert, organist and composer of hymn tunes (born 1817)Maggie Humphreys Robert Evans Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=WSLUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA159 1 January 1997 A&C Black 978-0-7201-2330-2 159 30 December – Eugène Goossens, père, Belgian-born conductor (born 1845)Encyclopædia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge Encyclopœdia Britannica 1963 522 See also 1906 in the United Kingdom References nb British Music, 1906 in Music Category:British music by year Category:1900s in British music