1925 in British music

This is a summary of 1925 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events

3 April – Gustav Holst's opera At the Boar's Head is premiered in Manchester.
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After a spell of ill-health, Gustav Holst returns to teach at St Paul's Girls' School.{{cite book | last =Holst | first= Imogen | year= 1981|edition=second| title= The Great Composers: Holst| location= London | publisher= Faber and Faber | isbn= 0-571-09967-X|page=64}}
William Walton dedicates the score of his Portsmouth Point to his patron Siegfried Sassoon, who had recommended it be published by Oxford University Press.{{cite journal | last=Avery | first=Kenneth | title=William Walton | journal=Music & Letters | volume=28 | issue=1 | pages=1–11 | year=1947 | doi=10.1093/ml/XXVIII.1.1 | jstor=854707}}

Mai Jones – "Blackbirds"{{cite DWB|id=s2-JONE-MAI-1899|title=Jones, Gladys Mai|author=Huw Williams|access-date=3 June 2016}}

Frank Bridge –
"Golden Hair", for voice and piano
"Journey's End", for tenor or high baritone and piano
The Pneu World, for cello and piano
Songs of Rabindranath Tagore (3), for voice and piano, or voice and orchestra
Vignettes de Marseille, for piano
Winter Pastorale, for piano
Eric Coates – 2 Light Syncopated Pieces[http://www.musicweb-international.com/coates/orchworks.htm Music on the Web – Eric Coates: Orchestral Works]
Walford Davies – Men and Angels, for chorus and orchestra, Op. 51
Frederick Delius – A Late Lark, for voice and orchestra
Edward Elgar –
"The Herald", part-song
"The Prince of Sleep", part-song
Gustav Holst –
"God Is Love, His the Care", for choir
Hymns (4) for Songs of Praise, for choir
Motets (2), for choir
Ode to C.K.S. and the Oriana, for choir
Terzetto for flute, oboe and viola
Herbert Howells – Piano Concerto No. 2
John Ireland – Two Pieces for Piano (1925)
Ernest John Moeran – Bank Holiday
Ralph Vaughan Williams –
Concerto Accademico for violin and strings
Flos Campi, for viola, wordless choir, and small orchestra
Hymns (5) for Songs of Praise, for choir
Two Poems by Seumas O'Sullivan, for voice and piano
Three Songs from Shakespeare, for voice and piano
Three Poems by Walt Whitman, for baritone and piano
William Walton – Portsmouth Point, concert overture
Peter Warlock – "A Prayer to St Anthony"

Betty in Mayfair, with music by Harold Fraser-Simson and lyrics by Harry Graham
Charlot's Revue of 1925{{cite web|url=http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_c/charlotsrevue1925revised.htm|title=Charlot's Revue 1925 (Revised)|website=A Guide to Musical Theatre|access-date=2 June 2016}}
Dear Little Billie, with music by H.B. Hedley & Jack Strachey and lyrics by Desmond Carter
Love's Prisoner with music, book and lyrics by Reginald Hargreaves{{cite web|url=http://www.overthefootlights.co.uk/London%20Musicals%201925-1929.pub.pdf|title=Love's Prisoner|website=Over the Footlights|access-date=23 August 2017|archive-date=5 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160805043245/http://www.overthefootlights.co.uk/London%20Musicals%201925-1929.pub.pdf|url-status=dead}}
On with the Dance, written and composed by Noël Coward and Philip BrahamThe Manchester Guardian, 18 March 1925, p. 11 "Great Showmanship"

17 February – Ron Goodwin, film composer (d. 2003)
8 March – Dennis Lotis, South African-born singer{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/dennis-lotis-mn0000202685|title=Dennis Lotis – Biography |publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=25 December 2014}} (d. 2023)
22 March – Gerard Hoffnung, cartoonist, comedian, musician (d. 1959)
23 March – Monica Sinclair, operatic contralto (d. 2002)
18 June – Johnny Pearson, composer, orchestra leader and pianist (d. 2011)
16 July – Johnny Brandon, singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
2 September – Russ Conway, pianist (d. 2000)
20 September – James Bernard, film composer (d. 2001)
1 October – Alan Styler, operatic baritone (d. 1970)
11 October – David Hughes, operatic tenor (d. 1972)
30 December – Eric Wetherell, composer, conductor, musical author (died 2021)
31 December – Daphne Oram, composer and electronic musician (d. 2003)

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1 March – Thomas Bidgood, conductor, composer and arranger, 66 (suicide){{cite web|title=Thomas Bidgood|url=http://marchdb.net/composers/show/15/|work=marchdb.net|date=1 March 2007|accessdate=18 October 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130221191630/http://marchdb.net/composers/show/15/|archive-date=2013-02-21|url-status=usurped}}
22 March – Marie Brema, concert mezzo-soprano, 69
1 April – Francis William Davenport, composer and music writer{{cite web|url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.07263|title=Davenport, Francis William (1847–1925), composer, writer on music|author=Stephen Banfield|website=Oxford Index|access-date=18 February 2019}}