1913 in British music
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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.{{cite web|title=Luonnotar (Daughter of Nature)|work=Jean Sibelius – The music|accessdate=2016-11-12|url=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.{{cite web|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19131108.2.7|title=MISS MARIE LLOYD|edition=EVENING POST, VOLUME LXXXVI, ISSUE 113, 8 NOVEMBER 1913|website=Papers Past|access-date=6 September 2017}}
- date unknown
- Edward Bairstow becomes organist of York Minster.{{cite book|author1=Edward Foley|author2=Mark Paul Bangert|title=Worship Music: A Concise Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hVY86qWtoc8C&pg=PA27|year=2000|publisher=Liturgical Press|isbn=978-0-8146-5889-5|pages=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.[http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Novello.htm Novello Theatre History]
Popular music
Recordings
Classical music: new works
- Arnold Bax – Three Pieces for Small Orchestra
- York Bowen – At the Play
- George Butterworth – The Banks of Green Willow{{cite book|author1=Angela K. Smith|author2=Krista Cowman|title=Landscapes and Voices of the Great War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=czUlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA50|date=3 February 2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-351-85641-6|pages=50}}
- Edward Elgar – Falstaff
- Gustav Holst – St Paul's Suite
- John Ireland
- Decorations
- The Forgotten Rite{{IMSLP2|work=The Forgotten Rite (Ireland, John)|cname=The Forgotten Rite (Ireland, John)}}{{cite web |url=http://www.johnirelandtrust.org/etof.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120727010621/http://www.johnirelandtrust.org/etof.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 27, 2012 |website=The John Ireland Trust |title=List of works – E to F |accessdate=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.{{cite web|url=http://www.overthefootlights.co.uk/London%20Musicals%201910-1914.pub.pdf|title=London Musicals 1910–1914|website=Over the Footlights|access-date=8 September 2017}}
- 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.robertbuchanan.co.uk/html/music.html |title=Professor Francesco Berger: Obituary from The Times |author=Patrick Regan |date=2002-08-27 |work=Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901) |accessdate=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)[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/feb/26/guardianobituaries.obituaries1 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. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/59169, "Carte, Helen (1852–1913)"], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004, {{doi|10.1093/ref:odnb/59169}}; accessed 12 September 2008
- 17 July – Armes Beaumont, singer best known in Australia, 70{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7267794 |title=Singer of Bygone Years. Death of Mr. Armes Beaumont. Fine Career Closed. |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |issue=((20,899)) |location=Victoria, Australia |date=18 July 1913 |accessdate=27 December 2018 |page=5 |via=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, 76{{Citation|last=Fuller Maitland|first=J.A.|contribution=Gaul, Alfred (Robert)|contribution-url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/10744|title=Grove Music Online|publisher=Oxford University Press|url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/book/omo_gmo|accessdate=2017-04-17}}
- 20 October – Charles Brookfield, musical theatre writer, 56 (tuberculosis)Beale, Sally. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/40231 "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
References
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