1924 in British music

• 13 May – Edward Elgar is appointed Master of the King's Musick in succession to Sir Walter Parratt.[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/32935/pages/3841 The London Gazette], no. 32935, p. 3841, 13 May 1924. Accessed 27 October 2010.
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• Richard Runciman Terry resigns as organist of Westminster Cathedral because of criticism of his choice of music, "erratic behaviour" and "neglect of duty".Peter Doyle, Westminster Cathedral 1895–1995, London, 1995, p.53
• The London Labour Choral Union is launched by Rutland Boughton.{{cite web|url=https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/the-london-labour-choral-union19241940-a-musical-institution-of-the-left(73c60302-d104-4f48-804b-83c29517c47f).html|title=The London Labour Choral Union,1924–1940: A Musical Institution of the Left.|author=Maria Kiladi|website=Royal Holloway University of London|access-date=16 April 2018}}

• "The Bristol Pageant", w. Frederic Weatherly, m. Hubert Hunt
• "There's Life In The Old Girl Yet" w.m. Noël Coward
• "Will You Forgive?", m. Albert Ketèlbey

• Gustav Holst – Choral Symphony (premiered in 1925)
• William Walton – Bucolic Comedies (lost), with words by Edith Sitwell
• Arthur Wood – My Native Heath (orchestral suite, including the maypole dance "Barwick Green", now famous as the theme to The Archers){{cite episode|title=Feedback|series=Autumn 2007|network=BBC Radio 4|airdate=2007-10-05}}

• Ralph Vaughan Williams – Hugh the Drover, with libretto by Harold ChildMichael Kennedy, Liner notes to Hyperion recording of Hugh the Drover. Hyperion Records, 1994.

• Primrose, written for the London stage by Guy Bolton and George Grossmith Jr., with lyrics by Desmond Carter and Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin.{{cite book|author1=Clive Barker|author2=Simon Trussler|title=New Theatre Quarterly 37: Volume 10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UtoZmij14FYC&pg=PA33|date=26 May 1994|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-46656-1|pages=33}}
• Puppets, revue with music by Ivor Novello and others, starring Binnie Hale and Stanley Lupino{{cite web|url=http://guidetomusicaltheatre.com/london_shows_chronology/1924.htm|title=Chronology of London Shows|website=The Guide to Musical Theatre|access-date=16 August 2017}}

• 8 January – Ron Moody, star of Oliver! (died 2015)
• 21 January – Benny Hill, comedian, actor and singer (died 1992)
• 9 February – George Guest, organist and choirmaster of St John's College, Cambridge (died 2002)
• 27 February – Trevor Duncan, composer (died 2005)
• 8 March – Alan Dell, BBC radio DJ (died 1995)
• 15 April – Sir Neville Marriner, conductor and violinist (died 2016)
• 18 April – Buxton Orr, composer (died 1997)
• 6 May – Denny Wright, jazz guitarist (died 1992)
• 19 May – Sandy Wilson, composer of The Boyfriend (died 2014)
• 20 May – Syd Dale, composer and arranger of big band, easy listening and library music (died 1994)
• 1 June – John Tooley, opera director and manager (died 2020)
• 19 September – Ernest Tomlinson, light music composer (died 2015)

• 2 January – Sabine Baring-Gould, hymn-writer and collector of folk songs, 89{{cite book|author=Sabine Baring-Gould|title=Curious Myths of the Middle Ages|url=https://archive.org/details/curiousmythsmid00barigoog|year=1978|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-520078-2}}
• 15 February – Lionel Monckton, composer, 62[http://www.brompton.org/Residents.htm Brompton Cemetery website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060823091118/http://www.brompton.org/Residents.htm |date=23 August 2006 }}
• 18 March – Frederick Bridge, organist and composer, 79{{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=PA42|date=1 January 1997|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-7201-2330-2|pages=42}}
• 27 March – Sir Walter Parratt, composer, Master of the King's Musick, 83{{cite book|author=Stanley Sadie|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f1MNAQAAIAAJ|year=1980|publisher=Macmillan Publishers|isbn=978-0-333-23111-1|page=241}}
• 29 March – Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, composer, 71
• 5 April – Rosalind Ellicott, composer, 66 {{cite book|title=Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914|year=2013|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd|isbn=9781409494614|author=Dr Pippa Drummond}}
• 23 June – Cecil Sharp, folk song and dance revivalist, 64
• 6 August – John Roberts (Pencerdd Gwynedd), organist and composer, 76{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-ROBE-HEN-1848|title=Roberts, John Henry (Pencerdd Gwynedd; 1848-1924), musician|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|author=Robert David Griffith|access-date=6 January 2019}}
• 26 November – Rose Hersee, operatic soprano, 78Rosenthal, Harold. "Hersee, Rose", Grove Music Online [http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/12901?q=Hersee&source=omo_epm&source=omo_t237&source=omo_gmo&source=omo_t114&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit] accessed 25 May 2009

• 1924 in the United Kingdom
• List of British films of 1924

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