1906 in British music

• 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.[https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W522_66291 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).[https://imslp.org/wiki/Cobbett_Competitions 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.{{cite book|last=Slonimsky|first=Nicolas|title=Music Since 1900, 5th ed.|publisher=Schirmer|year=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.{{cite DWB|last1=Griffith|first1=Robert David|title=Davies, Mary (1855–1930)|id=s-DAVI-MAR-1855|accessdate=9 November 2014}}
• Summer – Australian composer Percy Grainger begins collecting English folk songs with the aid of a phonograph.{{cite book|author=Tim Rayborn|title=A New English Music: Composers and Folk Traditions in England’s Musical Renaissance from the Late 19th to the Mid–20th Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cEH8CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA201|date=15 April 2016|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-1-4766-2494-5|pages=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)
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• Operatic soprano Maggie Teyte makes her public début at a Mozart festival in Paris.{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maggie-Teyte|title=Dame Maggie Teyte|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=23 May 2018}}
• 16-year-old Phyllis Dare takes over the leading role in The Belle of Mayfair{{cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp55405/phyllis-dare|title=Phyllis Dare (1890-1975), Actress|website=National Portrait Gallery|access-date=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.

• "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.{{cite web |url=http://www.hymnary.org/text/ye_watchers_and_ye_holy_ones#worship-ideas |title=Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones: Worship Notes |first=Tiffany |last=Shomsky |publisher=Hymnary.org |accessdate=13 April 2017}}

• 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)

• Dame Ethel Smyth & Henry Brewster – The Wreckers{{cite web|last1=Fuller|first1=Sophie|title=DAME ETHEL SMYTH, THE WRECKERS|url=http://americansymphony.org/the-wreckers-1904/|website=American Symphony Orchestra|accessdate=17 March 2015|ref=see para 8|archive-date=30 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630202749/http://americansymphony.org/the-wreckers-1904/|url-status=dead}}

• 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.musicaltheatreguide.com/composers/jones/sidney_jones.htm|title=(James) Sidney Jones|website=The Guide to Light Opera and Operetta|access-date=22 May 2018}}

• 31 January – Benjamin Frankel, composer (died 1973)
• 19 February – Grace Williams, composer (died 1977)
• 13 March – Dave Kaye, pianist (died 1996)
• 5 April – Charles Proctor, conductor, pianist, composer, (died 1996)
• 22 April – Eric Fenby, composer, conductor, pianist, organist and teacher, amanuensis of Frederick Delius (died 1997){{cite book|author=Mary Christison Huismann|title=Frederick Delius: A Research and Information Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ5J-YD9-WEC&pg=PA67|year=2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-99364-7|pages=67}}
• 9 July – Elisabeth Lutyens, composer (died 2005)
• 24 August – Walter Braithwaite, composer (died 1991)
• 4 November – Arnold Cooke, composer (died 1983){{cite book|title=The Double Reed|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UGMJAQAAMAAJ|year=2006|publisher=International Double Reed Society}}
• 23 November – Mervyn Roberts, Welsh composer

• 9 May – Helen Lemmens-Sherrington, concert and operatic soprano (born 1834)Davey, Henry. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/olddnb/34491 "Lemmens-Sherrington, Madame Helen (1834–1906)"], Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 1912, online edition retrieved 17 April 2014 {{ODNBsub}}
• 14 June – George Herbert, organist and composer of hymn tunes (born 1817){{cite book|author1=Maggie Humphreys|author2=Robert Evans|title=Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSLUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA159|date=1 January 1997|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-7201-2330-2|pages=159}}
• 30 December – Eugène Goossens, père, Belgian-born conductor (born 1845){{cite book|title=Encyclopædia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge|publisher=Encyclopœdia Britannica|year=1963|page=522}}

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