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

Opera

  • Rutland BoughtonBethlehem[http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=CDD22040 Liner notes to Hyperion Records, Russell Boughton, The Immortal Hour]

Musical theatre

Births

Deaths

  • 15 JanuaryFlorence 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 JuneWilliam 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 JuneWilliam 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 DecemberDavid Jenkins, composer, 66

See also

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