1911 in British music

This is a summary of 1911 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events

24 May – Edward Elgar conducts the première of his second symphony in front of a smaller-than-expected audience at the Queen's Hall, London."Elgar's New Symphony", The Times, 25 May 1911, p. 10
June – Edward Elgar is appointed to the Order of Merit by King George V[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/28505/supplements/4593 Supplement], The London Gazette, no. 2769, p. 4448, 19 June 1911. Retrieved 27 October 2010.
22 June – At the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, Sir Frederick Bridge, as Director of Music, seeks to cover four hundred years of British music,Richards, p. 104 Works by Thomas Tallis, John Merbecke and George Frederick Handel are included, alongside new works by Sir Hubert Parry (a new orchestral introduction for his setting of Psalm 122, "I was glad" and a new setting of the Te Deum), Charles Villiers Stanford (a new setting of the Gloria), Elgar (Coronation March), organist Walter Alcock (a new setting of the Sanctus), and Bridge himself.*{{cite book |last=Range |first=Matthias |date=2012 |title=Music and Ceremonial at British Coronations: From James I to Elizabeth II |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CzmgJGWpDKUC&dq=coronation+music+1911&pg=PA255 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn= 978-1-107-02344-4 }}
July – Frank Bridge completes his orchestral suite The Sea, during a visit to the seaside town of Eastbourne.{{cite web|url=http://www.musicaltoronto.org/2012/08/09/introducing-the-sea-a-suite-for-orchestra-by-frank-bridge|title=Introducing: The Sea, a suite for orchestra by Frank Bridge|author=John Terauds|website=Musical Toronto|access-date=17 January 2018}}
October - The Society of Women Musicians, co-founded by Gertrude Eaton, Marion Scott, Katharine Eggar, and others, holds its first meeting.Sophie Fuller. "Society of Women Musicians", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed March 12, 2007), grovemusic.com (subscription access).{{cite book|author=Linda L. Clark|title=Women and Achievement in Nineteenth-Century Europe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NtitRt1uUXMC&pg=PA112|date=17 April 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-65098-4|pages=112–}}
23 November – Elgar's Symphony no 2, again conducted by the composer, is performed by the Hallé Orchestra, and receives mixed reviews."Elgar's Second Symphony in America",The Times, 3 January 1912, p. 7.

Popular music

Harry Lauder - "Roamin' In The Gloamin'"
Billy Merson
"The Photo of the Girl I Left Behind"
"The Spaniard That Blighted My Life"{{cite book|author=Edwin M. Bradley|title=The First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical Filmography of 171 Features, 1927 through 1932|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg-UBJaPD-sC&pg=PA11|date=1 January 2004|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-2029-2|pages=11–}}

Classical music: new works

George Butterworth – Two English Idylls{{cite book|author=Nicole V. Gagné|title=Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ppHoEX_6v10C&pg=PA51|year=2012|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6765-9|pages=51}}
Eric Coates – Miniature Suite{{cite book|author1=Naomi Musiker|author2=Reuben Musiker|title=Conductors and Composers of Popular Orchestral Music: A Biographical and Discographical Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ipnrAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT70|date=25 February 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-91770-8|pages=70}}
Frederick Delius
A Song of the High Hills{{cite book|author=Barrie Jones|title=The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zoa3AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA165|date=3 June 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-95018-7|pages=165}}
Summer Night on the River
Gustav Holst – Second Suite in F, for military band
Roger Quilter – Where the Rainbow Ends (incidental music for the play){{cite book|author=British Library. Department of Manuscripts|title=Descriptions: Additional manuscripts 68,892-70,637; Egerton manuscripts 3,813-3,867; Additional charters and rolls 76,609-76,772, 76,792-76,836; Egerton charters and rolls 8,853-8,858; Detached seals and casts CCVI.1-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHRRAQAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=British Library|isbn=978-0-7123-0325-5}}
Ethel Smyth – The March of the Women
Charles Villiers Stanford
Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 124
Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 126

Opera

The Count of Luxembourg, based on the music of Franz Lehár's German operetta Der Graf von Luxemburg (1909), with English lyrics and libretto by Basil Hood and Adrian Ross."The King and Queen at Daly's Theatre", The Count of Luxembourg, The Times, 22 May 1911, p. 10

Musical theatre

4 March – Peggy, with music by Leslie Stuart, book by George Grossmith, Jr., and lyrics by C. H. Bovill, starring Edmund Payne, Phyllis Dare and Gabrielle Ray, opens at the Gaiety Theatre, London, where it will run for 270 performances.Culme, John. [http://www.gabrielleray.150m.com/ArchiveTextPQ/PeggyGaiety1911.html "Footlight Notes, no. 277"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928135022/http://www.gabrielleray.150m.com/ArchiveTextPQ/PeggyGaiety1911.html |date=2011-09-28 }}. 4 January 2002, accessed 11 August 2010

Births

24 January
Evelyn Barbirolli, oboist (died 2008)
Muir Mathieson, conductor and composer (died 1975)
9 June – Frederick May, Irish composer (died 1985)
27 August – Kay Walsh, dancer and actress (d. 2005)
25 December – Eric Gilder, musicologist (died 2000)
27 December – Anna Russell, singer and comedian (died 2006)
28 December – Max Jaffa, violinist and bandleader (died 1991)
date unknown - Gladys Midgley (née Vernon), pianist and singer (died 2005)D. Brook, Singers of Today (Revised Edition - Rockliff, London 1958), pages 140-144.

Deaths

4 May – Ronald Richardson Potter, organist and composer, 31
29 May – W. S. Gilbert, lyricist (Savoy operas), 74
13 June – Patrick Heeney, Irish composer, 29{{cite news|last=O'Brien|first=Jason|date=26 Apr 2011|title=Singing praises of 'forgotten patriot' who wrote anthem|url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/singing-praises-of-forgotten-patriot-who-wrote-anthem-26726907.html|work=independent.ie|location=Dublin|access-date=3 Oct 2021}}
29 August – Hildegard Werner, Swedish-born musical conductor, 77
13 October – Harry Rickards, English-born baritone, comedian and theatre owner, 67 (apoplexy)