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1913 British music
This is a summary of 1913 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
10 September – The première of Jean Sibelius's tone poem Luonnotar takes place at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral, with soprano Aino Ackté and orchestra conducted by Herbert Brewer.Luonnotar (Daughter of Nature) Jean Sibelius – The music 2016-11-12 http://www.sibelius.fi/english/musiikki/ork_luonnotar.htm
1 October – Marie Lloyd and her lover, Bernard Dillon, are arrested by the US immigration authorities on their arrival in New York, when it is discovered that they are not married.https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19131108.2.7 MISS MARIE LLOYD EVENING POST, VOLUME LXXXVI, ISSUE 113, 8 NOVEMBER 1913 Papers Past 6 September 2017
date unknown
Edward Bairstow becomes organist of York Minster.Edward Foley Mark Paul Bangert Worship Music: A Concise Dictionary https://books.google.com/books?id=hVY86qWtoc8C&pg=PA27 2000 Liturgical Press 978-0-8146-5889-5 27
Ivor Novello moves into a flat above the Strand Theatre in London's West End; in 2005, the theatre would be renamed in his honour.Novello Theatre History
Popular music
Albert Ketèlbey – "My Heart Still Clings to You"Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions https://books.google.com/books?id=YlAcAQAAIAAJ 1914 Library of Congress, Copyright Office.
Arnold Safroni-Middleton – "Imperial Echoes"
Recordings
Harry Lauder – "It's Nicer To Be In Bed"The Talking Machine Review https://books.google.com/books?id=iG05AQAAIAAJ 1975 E. Bayly
Classical music: new works
Arnold Bax – Three Pieces for Small Orchestra
York Bowen – At the Play
George Butterworth – The Banks of Green WillowAngela K. Smith Krista Cowman Landscapes and Voices of the Great War https://books.google.com/books?id=czUlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA50 3 February 2017 Taylor & Francis 978-1-351-85641-6 50
Edward Elgar – Falstaff
Gustav Holst – St Paul's Suite
John Ireland
Decorations
The Forgotten RiteThe Forgotten Rite (Ireland, John) The Forgotten Rite (Ireland, John)http://www.johnirelandtrust.org/etof.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20120727010621/http://www.johnirelandtrust.org/etof.htm dead July 27, 2012 The John Ireland Trust List of works – E to F 3 May 2015
The Holy Boy
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (revised version)
Musical theatre
7 February – After the Girl, with music by Paul Rubens and lyrics by Percy Greenbank, opens at the Gaiety Theatre for a run of 105 performances.
18 February – Oh! Oh! Delphine!, with music by Ivan Caryll and lyrics by C.M.S. McLellan, opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre for a run of 174 performances.http://www.overthefootlights.co.uk/London%20Musicals%201910-1914.pub.pdf London Musicals 1910–1914 Over the Footlights 8 September 2017 19 March 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160319011016/http://www.overthefootlights.co.uk/London%20Musicals%201910-1914.pub.pdf dead
25 September – The Pearl Girl, with music by Howard Talbot & Hugo Felix and lyrics by Basil Hood, opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre, starring Marjorie Maxwell, for a run of 254 performances.
Publications
Francesco Berger – Reminiscences, Impressions, and Anecdotes.http://www.robertbuchanan.co.uk/html/music.html Professor Francesco Berger: Obituary from The Times Patrick Regan 2002-08-27 Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901) 2013-02-16
Frank Bridge – Second Book of Organ Pieces
Births
27 January – Jack Brymer, clarinettist (died 2003)
28 February – Wally Ridley, record producer and songwriter (died 2007) Michael Freedland, "Obituary, Wally Ridley", The Guardian, 26 February 2007. Retrieved 29 April 2019
13 March – Tessie O'Shea, entertainer (died 1995)
2 April – Ronald Center, composer (died 1973)
28 June – George Lloyd, composer (died 1998)
28 August – Robert Irving, conductor (died 1991)
22 November – Benjamin Britten, composer (died 1976)
date unknown – Eiluned Davies, Anglo Welsh concert pianist and composer (died 1999)
Deaths
19 March – John Thomas, harpist and composer, 87
5 May – Helen Carte (Helen Lenoir; née Black), impresario, 60Stedman, Jane W. "Carte, Helen (1852–1913)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004, 10.1093/ref:odnb/59169; accessed 12 September 2008
17 July – Armes Beaumont, singer best known in Australia, 70http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7267794 Singer of Bygone Years. Death of Mr. Armes Beaumont. Fine Career Closed. The Argus (Melbourne) ((20,899)) Victoria, Australia 18 July 1913 27 December 2018 5 National Library of Australia
26 August – Michael Maybrick, singer and composer, 72Patrick Waddington, ‘Maybrick, Michael [Stephen Adams] (1841–1913)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/46651, accessed 1 November 2009
13 September – Alfred Gaul, composer, conductor and organist, 76Fuller Maitland J.A. Gaul, Alfred (Robert) http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/10744 Grove Music Online Oxford University Press http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/book/omo_gmo 2017-04-17
20 October – Charles Brookfield, musical theatre writer, 56 (tuberculosis)Beale, Sally. "Brookfield, Charles Hallam Elton (1857–1913)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edition, January 2008, accessed 21 April 2010 (subscription required).
6 December – Alexander Hurley, music hall performer, 42 (pneumonia)"Death of well-known comedian Mr Alec Hurley", Aberdeen Journal, 8 December 1913, p. 7
See also
1913 in the United Kingdom
References
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