This is a summary of 1901 in music in the United Kingdom .
List of years in British music
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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]
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Classical music: new works
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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]
^ Catherine Hindson. London's West End Actresses and the Origins of Celebrity (2016), p. 227
^ Jeffrey Green (6 October 2015). Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, a Musical Life . Routledge. p. 108. ISBN 978-1-317-32263-4 .
^ Bird, John (1982). Percy Grainger . London: Faber & Faber. pp. 39–41. ISBN 978-0-571-11717-8 .
^ a b c d e f g Slonimsky, Nicolas (1994). Music Since 1900, 5th ed . Schirmer.
^ Holmes, Paul (1998). Holst . Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers. London: Omnibus Press. p. 29. OCLC 650194212 .
^ 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
^ a 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 0-19-816383-5 .
^ Alexander Schouvaloff (1987). The Theatre Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum . Scala. ISBN 9780935748765 .
^ "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, doi :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.