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Overview of the events of 1901 in British music
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This is a summary of 1901 in music in the
United Kingdom .
Events
1 January – The ballet Soldiers of the Queen , with 250 costumed dancers representing the Queen’s parade, opens at the
Alhambra Theatre in London. It is a huge success, fueled by the patriotism surrounding the Boar War.
[1]
14 March – The String Quartet in B flat by
Frank Bridge is performed for the first time at the
Royal College of Music , London. It won the Sullivan Prize.
21 March – Tritons a piece for orchestra by the 21 year-old
John Ireland , is performed for the first time in Alexandra House, London, conducted by
Charles Villiers Stanford .
27 March – The Symphony No 4, Greeting to the New Century by
William Wallace , is given its first performance at the
Queen’s Hall , London.
4 April – The Serenade for small orchestra by
Ralph Vaughan Williams is performed for the first time at the Winter Gardens in
Bournemouth .
April –
Lucy Broadwood is a judge at the Westmoreland Festival.
[2]
May – Australian composer
Percy Grainger arrives in the UK with his mother, Rose, after a stay in Germany.
[3]
30 May – Much Ado About Nothing , an opera in four acts by
Charles Villiers Stanford , is produced at Covent Garden in London.
[4]
31 May – The Bechstein Hall, later renamed the
Wigmore Hall , opens with a concert featuring
Ferruccio Busoni (piano) and
Eugène Ysaÿe (violin). Other artists using the hall in the early days include Percy Grainger,
Arthur Rubinstein ,
Camille Saint-Saëns and
Max Reger .
20 June – At Queen's Hall,
Edward Elgar conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the world premiere of his concert-overture Cockaigne (In London Town) .
[4]
22 June –
Gustav Holst marries soprano Isobel Harrison at Fulham Register Office.
[5]
19 October – No 1 and No 2
Pomp and Circumstance Marches , Op. 39 by Edward Elgar are performed for the first time in Liverpool.
[4]
26 October – the concert overture Toussaint L’Ouverture by
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is performed for the first time in London.
[4]
29 October – Percy Grainger gives his first solo piano recital in London, at
Steinway Hall .
[4]
7 November – The first performance of
Percy Pitt ’s Dance Rhythms , op 33, takes place at the Queen's Hall
Proms , conducted by
Sir Henry Wood .
[4]
21 November – The Piano Quartet in E minor, op. 12 by
Donald Tovey is played for the first time at
St James’s Hall in London.
[4]
date unknown
Popular music
Classical music: new works
Opera
Musical theatre
Births
Deaths
11 February –
Henry Willis , organ builder, 79
[23]
31 March – Sir
John Stainer , organist and composer, 60
[24]
3 April –
Richard D'Oyly Carte , producer of Gilbert & Sullivan, 56
[25]
14 April –
Alice Barnett , singer and actress, 54
[26]
June –
Abel Jones (Bardd Crwst), balladeer, age unknown (born 1830)
[27]
23 June –
Charles Kensington Salaman , pianist and composer, 87
[28]
22 October –
Frederic Archer , organist, conductor and composer, 63
[29]
See also
References
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^ Jeffrey Green (6 October 2015).
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^ Bird, John (1982). Percy Grainger . London: Faber & Faber. pp. 39–41.
ISBN
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^ Holmes, Paul (1998). Holst . Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers. London: Omnibus Press. p. 29.
OCLC
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^ Lewis Foreman (2011).
The John Ireland Companion . Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 304.
ISBN
978-1-84383-686-5 .
^ Kennedy, Michael (1980) [1964]. The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams (second ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 44.
ISBN
978-0-19-315453-7 .
^ C. A. Mathew; David Webb; Alison Carpenter (January 1974).
The eastern fringe of the City: a photographic tour of the Bishopsgate area in 1912 . Bishopsgate Institute.
^ A. C. Benson, "The Professor and Other Poems", London and New York, John Lane, 1900
^
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b Jerrold Northrop Moore (1999).
Edward Elgar: A Creative Life . Oxford University Press. p. 349.
ISBN
978-0-19-816366-4 .
^ Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1 January 2013).
Symphony in A minor, opus 8: With the earlier finales and Idyll, opus 44 . A-R Editions, Inc. p. 189.
ISBN
978-0-89579-773-5 .
^ Paul Watt; Anne-Marie Forbes (23 December 2014).
Joseph Holbrooke: Composer, Critic, and Musical Patriot . Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 201.
ISBN
978-0-8108-8892-0 .
^ Nicole V. Gagné (2012).
Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music . Scarecrow Press. p. 76.
ISBN
978-0-8108-6765-9 .
^ Dibble, Jeremy (2002).
Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician . Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 333.
ISBN
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^ Alexander Schouvaloff (1987).
The Theatre Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum . Scala.
ISBN
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^
"Bluebell in Fairyland" . Guide to Musical Theatre . Retrieved 24 January 2019 .
^
"Biography Index Entry" . Oxford. Retrieved 5 March 2008 .
^ Eric Maschwitz (1957).
No Chip on My Shoulder . H. Jenkins.
^ McVeagh, Diana. (2013). Gerald Finzi: His Life and Music . Boydell Press
ISBN
978-1843836025
^ Graham Melville-Mason (24 May 1999).
"Obituary: James Blades" . The Independent .
Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 17 January 2019 .
^ David Mason Greene (1985).
Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers . Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 1318.
ISBN
978-0-385-14278-6 .
^ Musical Opinion – Volume 94 – Page 483 1970 OBITUARY Ivor R. Davies, F.R.C.O., LJLA.M.
^ Douglas Earl Bush; Richard Kassel (2006).
The Organ: An Encyclopedia . Psychology Press. p. 630.
ISBN
978-0-415-94174-7 .
^
Dibble, Jeremy (2007).
John Stainer: A life in music . Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer. p. 308.
ISBN
978-1-84383-297-3 . Archived from
the original on 2014-10-27. Retrieved 2021-08-23 .
^ Jacobs, Arthur.
"Carte, Richard D'Oyly (1844–1901)" , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, September 2004, accessed 12 September 2008,
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10.1093/ref:odnb/32311
^ Stone, David.
Alice Barnett at Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte , Retrieved 14 June 2010
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins.
"JONES, ABEL (Bardd Crwst; 1830-1901), ballad writer and strolling ballad singer" .
Dictionary of Welsh Biography .
National Library of Wales . Retrieved 24 January 2019 .
^ Devonshire, (1901). Charles Salaman , The Musical Times and Singing Class Circular, Vol. 42, No. 702 (Aug. 1, 1901), pp. 530–533.
^
"Pittsburg Organist's Life Ended" . The Pittsburg Press . 22 Oct 1901. p. 1.
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