1901 in British music

This is a summary of 1901 in music in the United Kingdom.

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Events

• April – Lucy Broadwood is a judge at the Westmoreland Festival.[1]
• May – Australian composer Percy Grainger arrives in the UK with his mother, Rose, after a stay in Germany.[2]
• 22 June
• date unknown – Gustav Holst marries soprano Isobel Harrison at Fulham Register Office.[3]
  • John Ireland graduates from the Royal College of Music.[4]
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams formally receives the degree of Doctor of Music from Cambridge University.[5]

Popular music

• "Come, Gentle Night!", words by Clifton Bingham, music by Edward Elgar.[6]
• "In the Dawn", words by A. C. Benson, music by Edward Elgar.[7]

Classical music: new works

• Herbert Brewer – Emmaus[8]
• Frank Bridge
  • Scherzo Phantastick
  • Berceuse for viola or cello and piano
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Idyll[9]
• Edward Elgar – Cockaigne (In London Town)[8]
• Joseph Holbrooke – Queen Mab[10]

Opera

• Frederick Delius – A Village Romeo and Juliet (later revised, not performed until 1907)[11]
• Charles Villiers Stanford – Much Ado About Nothing[12]

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.[13]
• 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.[14]

Births

• 23 May – Edmund Rubbra, composer (died 1986)[15]
• 10 June – Eric Maschwitz (Holt Marvell), lyricist and broadcast executive (died 1969)[16]
• 9 September – James Blades, orchestral percussionist (died 1999)[17]
• 26 December – Victor Hely-Hutchinson, South African-born composer and radio executive (died 1947)[18]

Deaths

• 11 February – Henry Willis, organ builder, 79[19]
• June – Abel Jones (Bardd Crwst), balladeer, age unknown (born 1830)[20]
• 23 June – Charles Kensington Salaman, pianist and composer, 87[21]

See also

• 1901 in the United Kingdom

References

1. Jeffrey Green (6 October 2015). Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life. Routledge. p. 108. ISBN 978-1-317-32263-4.
2. Bird, John (1982). Percy Grainger. London: Faber & Faber. pp. 39–41. ISBN 978-0-571-11717-8.
3. Holmes, Paul (1998). Holst. Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers. London: Omnibus Press. p. 29. OCLC 650194212.
4. Lewis Foreman (2011). The John Ireland Companion. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 304. ISBN 978-1-84383-686-5.
5. Kennedy, Michael (1980) [1964]. The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams (second ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-19-315453-7.
6. C. A. Mathew; David Webb; Alison Carpenter (January 1974). The eastern fringe of the City: a photographic tour of the Bishopsgate area in 1912. Bishopsgate Institute.
7. A. C. Benson, "The Professor and Other Poems", London and New York, John Lane, 1900
8. Jerrold Northrop Moore (1999). Edward Elgar: A Creative Life. Oxford University Press. p. 349. ISBN 978-0-19-816366-4.
9. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1 January 2013). Symphony in A minor, opus 8: With the earlier finales and Idyll, opus 44. A-R Editions, Inc. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-89579-773-5.
10. Paul Watt; Anne-Marie Forbes (23 December 2014). Joseph Holbrooke: Composer, Critic, and Musical Patriot. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 201. ISBN 978-0-8108-8892-0.
11. Nicole V. Gagné (2012). Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music. Scarecrow Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-8108-6765-9.
12. Dibble, Jeremy (2002). Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 333. ISBN 0-19-816383-5.
13. Alexander Schouvaloff (1987). The Theatre Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum. Scala.
14. "Bluebell in Fairyland". Guide to Musical Theatre. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
15. "Biography Index Entry". Oxford. Retrieved 5 March 2008.
16. Eric Maschwitz (1957). No Chip on My Shoulder. H. Jenkins.
17. Graham Melville-Mason (24 May 1999). "Obituary: James Blades". The Independent. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
18. David Mason Greene (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 1318. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.
19. Douglas Earl Bush; Richard Kassel (2006). The Organ: An Encyclopedia. Psychology Press. p. 630. ISBN 978-0-415-94174-7.
20. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "JONES, ABEL (Bardd Crwst; 1830-1901), ballad writer and strolling ballad singer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
21. Devonshire, (1901). Charles Salaman, The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol. 42, No. 702 (Aug. 1, 1901), pp. 530–533.