1915 in British music
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This is a summary of 1915 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
- March – The Musical Times publishes an appreciation of Frederick Delius by the composer Peter Warlock (Philip Heseltine).{{cite journal|title= Some Notes on Delius and His Music|last= Heseltine|first= Philip|jstor= 909510|journal= The Musical Times|pages=137–42|date= March 1915|volume=56|issue= 865|doi=10.2307/909510|url= https://zenodo.org/record/1450006}} {{subscription required}}
- December – Having been invalided out of the armed forces, composer Havergal Brian and his family move to Erdington, Warwickshire.
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- Composer Herbert Howells is given six months to live, and becomes the first person in the UK to receive radium treatment (he will live on until 1983).{{cite book|first=Paul|last=Spicer|year=1998|title=Herbert Howells|publisher=Seren|location=Bridgend|isbn= 1-85411-233-3|page=44}}
- William Penfro Rowlands's hymn tune "Blaenwern" is first published in Henry H. Jones' Cân a Moliant.
- The Band of the Welsh Guards is formed, simultaneously with the establishment of the regiment.{{cite web |url=http://military-bands.co.uk/welsh_guards.html|title= Unofficial history of Welsh Guards band|accessdate=2008-05-27| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20080514194112/http://military-bands.co.uk/welsh_guards.html| archivedate= 14 May 2008 | url-status= live}}
Popular music
Classical music: new works
- Granville Bantock – Hebridean Symphony
- Frank Bridge – Lament{{cite web|url=https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/classical-music|title=World War One and Classical Music|author=Kate Kennedy|date=29 January 2014|website=British Library|access-date=16 June 2018}}
- Dora Bright – A Dancer's Adventure (ballet)
- Frederick Delius – Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra
- Edward Elgar – Incidental music for The Starlight ExpressMcVeagh, Diana, [http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/08709?q=elgar&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit "Elgar, Edward".] Grove Music Online. Accessed 20 April 2010 {{subscription required}}
- Gustav Holst – Japanese Suite
- John Ireland – Preludes for Piano
- Percy Pitt
- Sakura suite No. 2 (Suite de Ballet)
- Ballet Egyptien
- Suite pour petite orchestre
Opera
Musical theatre
- 24 April – Betty, with lyrics by Adrian Ross and music by Paul Rubens, opens at Daly's Theatre, starring Winifred Barnes.{{cite web|url=http://www.overthefootlights.co.uk/London%20Musicals%201915-1919.pub.pdf|title=London Musicals 1915–1919|website=Over The Footlights|access-date=8 September 2017|archive-date=19 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160419103936/http://www.overthefootlights.co.uk/London%20Musicals%201915-1919.pub.pdf|url-status=dead}}
- 28 April – Tonight's the Night, with lyrics by Percy Greenbank and music by Paul Rubens, opens at Daly's Theatre, featuring George Grossmith and Leslie Henson.
Births
- 11 January – Harry Lewis, musician and composer (died 1998)
- 25 January – Ewan MacColl, folk singer and songwriter (died 1989)
- 4 February – Norman Wisdom, comedian, singer and actor (died 2010)
- 10 March – Charles Groves, conductor (died 1992)
- 19 March – Nancy Evans, operatic mezzo-soprano (died 2000)Daily Telegraph, [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1367189/Nancy-Evans.html "Nancy Evans"], 24 August 2000
- Kennedy, Michael and Bourne, Joyce (eds.), "Evans, Nancy", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford University Press, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0-19-920383-3}}
- 25 March – Dorothy Squires, singer (died 1998)
- 29 March – George Chisholm, jazz trombonist and comedian (died 1997)
- 26 August – Humphrey Searle, composer (died 1982)
- 28 November – Pamela Harrison, pianist and composer (died 1990)
Deaths
- 15 January – Florence Everilda Goodeve, composer and lyricist, 53{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&dq=Florence+Everilda+Goodeve+%281861%E2%80%931915%29&pg=PA193|title=The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers|first1=Julie Anne|last1=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|year=1994|isbn=9780393034875|accessdate=14 December 2010}}
- 4 June – William Denis Browne, pianist, organist and composer, 26 (killed in action){{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/56650|title=Browne, William Charles Denis (1888–1915)|first=Rhian|last=Davies|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/56650|accessdate=2007-11-09|url-access=subscription}}
- 6 June – William Hayman Cummings, tenor, organist and composer, 83[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Times/1915/Obituary/William_Hayman_Cummings The Times, Monday, Jun 07, 1915; Issue 40874; pg. 12; col F — Death Of Dr. Cummings. Singer, Conductor, And Composer]
- 10 December – David Jenkins, composer, 66
See also
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