1912 in British music
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This is a summary of 1912 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
- date unknown
- The Birmingham Triennial Music Festival is held for the last time, and runs at a loss.[1]
- Edward German declines Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's proposal that he provide the music for a production based on the life of Sir Francis Drake, saying that its setting necessitate covering ground already explored in Merrie England. He writes little original music after this time.
- The Royal Academy of Music moves from Mayfair to purpose-built premises in Marylebone.[2]
Popular music
Recordings
Classical music
- Kenneth J. Alford – Holyrood and The Vedette, marches
- Granville Bantock – In the Far West, serenade for string orchestra
- Arthur Bliss – F. 139, Intermezzo
- Frank Bridge – Piano Quintet
- George Butterworth – Bredon Hill and Other Songs
- Edward Elgar – The Music Makers
- John Ireland – Songs of a Wayfarer[4]
- Charles Villiers Stanford – Sonata for clarinet (or viola) and piano, Op. 129
Opera
- Joseph Holbrooke – The Children of Don, Op. 56
Musical theatre
- 24 February – The Sunshine Girl, with music by Paul Rubens, opens at the Gaiety Theatre, London, for a run of 336 performances.[5]
Births
- 27 March – Robert Hughes, composer (died 2007)
- 22 April – Kathleen Ferrier, contralto (died 1953)
- 18 June – Melville Cook, organist, conductor, composer and teacher (died 1993)
- 30 June – Polly Ward, singer and actress (died 1987)
- 22 November – Chick Henderson, singer (died 1944)
- 7 December – Daniel Jones, composer (died 1993)
- 30 December (in Canada) – Rosina Lawrence, actress, singer and dancer (died 1997)
- date unknown – Tommy Potts, fiddle player and composer (died 1988)
Deaths
- 30 January – Florence St. John, singer and actress, 56
- 1 March – George Grossmith, comic singer in operetta, 64
- 15 April (drowned in the sinking of HMS Titanic):
- Wallace Hartley, ship's bandleader and violinist, 33
- John Law Hume, violinist, 21
- 14 August – Marion Hood, singer, 58
- 1 September – Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, composer, 37 (pneumonia)[6]
- 1 October – Frances Allitsen, composer, 63[7]
- 19 October – Richard Temple, opera singer, 66
See also
References
- ↑ "Birmingham Musical Festival". Arts and Humanities Research Council. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
- ↑ Barker, Duncan J. "Mackenzie, Sir Alexander Campbell", Grove Music Online (requires subscription), accessed 27 September 2009
- ↑ Lauder, Harry. "Roamin' In The Gloamin'" (sheet music). New York: T.B. Harms & Francis Day & Hunter (1911).
- ↑ "List of Works – Q to S". The John Ireland Trust. Retrieved 27 April 2015.
- ↑ Platt L. (2004) The Decline of West End Musical Comedy, 1912–1939. In: Musical Comedy on the West End Stage, 1890–1939. Palgrave Macmillan, London
- ↑ "Samuel Coleridge-Taylor", BBC Music.
- ↑ "The Lord is My Light" (1897) Boosey & Company, London
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