1913 in British music

This is a summary of 1913 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events

• 10 September – The première of Jean Sibelius's tone poem Luonnotar takes place at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral, with soprano Aino Ackté and orchestra conducted by Herbert Brewer.[1]
• 1 October – Marie Lloyd and her lover, Bernard Dillon, are arrested by the US immigration authorities on their arrival in New York, when it is discovered that they are not married.[2]
• date unknown
  • Edward Bairstow becomes organist of York Minster.[3]
  • Ivor Novello moves into a flat above the Strand Theatre in London's West End; in 2005, the theatre would be renamed in his honour.[4]

Popular music

• Albert Ketèlbey – "My Heart Still Clings to You"[5]
• Arnold Safroni-Middleton – "Imperial Echoes"

Recordings

• Harry Lauder – "It's Nicer To Be In Bed"[6]

Classical music: new works

• Arnold Bax – Three Pieces for Small Orchestra
• York Bowen – At the Play
• George Butterworth – The Banks of Green Willow[7]
• Edward Elgar – Falstaff
• Gustav Holst – St Paul's Suite
• John Ireland
  • Decorations
  • The Forgotten Rite[8][9]
  • The Holy Boy
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (revised version)

Musical theatre

• 7 February – After the Girl, with music by Paul Rubens and lyrics by Percy Greenbank, opens at the Gaiety Theatre for a run of 105 performances.[10]
• 18 February – Oh! Oh! Delphine!, with music by Ivan Caryll and lyrics by C.M.S. McLellan, opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre for a run of 174 performances.[10]
• 25 September – The Pearl Girl, with music by Howard Talbot & Hugo Felix and lyrics by Basil Hood, opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre, starring Marjorie Maxwell, for a run of 254 performances.[10]

Publications

• Francesco Berger – Reminiscences, Impressions, and Anecdotes.[11]
• Frank Bridge – Second Book of Organ Pieces

Births

• 27 January – Jack Brymer, clarinettist (died 2003)
• 28 February – Wally Ridley, record producer and songwriter (died 2007)[12]
• 13 March – Tessie O'Shea, entertainer (died 1995)
• 2 April – Ronald Center, composer (died 1973)
• 28 June – George Lloyd, composer (died 1998)
• 28 August – Robert Irving, conductor (died 1991)
• 22 November – Benjamin Britten, composer (died 1976)

Deaths

• 19 March – John Thomas, harpist and composer, 87
• 5 May – Helen Carte (Helen Lenoir; née Black), impresario, 60[13]
• 17 July – Armes Beaumont, singer best known in Australia, 70[14]
• 26 August – Michael Maybrick, singer and composer, 72[15]
• 13 September – Alfred Gaul, composer, conductor and organist, 76[16]
• 20 October – Charles Brookfield, musical theatre writer, 56 (tuberculosis)[17]
• 6 December – Alexander Hurley, music hall performer, 42 (pneumonia)[18]

See also

• 1913 in the United Kingdom

References

1. "Luonnotar (Daughter of Nature)". Jean Sibelius – The music. Retrieved 2016-11-12.
2. "MISS MARIE LLOYD". Papers Past (EVENING POST, VOLUME LXXXVI, ISSUE 113, 8 NOVEMBER 1913 ed.). Retrieved 6 September 2017.
3. Edward Foley; Mark Paul Bangert (2000). Worship Music: A Concise Dictionary. Liturgical Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-8146-5889-5.
4. Novello Theatre History
5. Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions. Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1914.
6. The Talking Machine Review. E. Bayly. 1975.
7. Angela K. Smith; Krista Cowman (3 February 2017). Landscapes and Voices of the Great War. Taylor & Francis. p. 50. ISBN 978-1-351-85641-6.
8. The Forgotten Rite (Ireland, John): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
9. "List of works – E to F". The John Ireland Trust. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
10. "London Musicals 1910–1914" (PDF). Over the Footlights. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
11. Patrick Regan (2002-08-27). "Professor Francesco Berger: Obituary from The Times". Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901). Retrieved 2013-02-16.
12. Michael Freedland, "Obituary, Wally Ridley", The Guardian, 26 February 2007. Retrieved 29 April 2019
13. Stedman, Jane W. "Carte, Helen (1852–1913)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/59169; accessed 12 September 2008
14. "Singer of Bygone Years. Death of Mr. Armes Beaumont. Fine Career Closed". The Argus (Melbourne) (20, 899). Victoria, Australia. 18 July 1913. p. 5. Retrieved 27 December 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
15. Patrick Waddington, ‘Maybrick, Michael [Stephen Adams] (1841–1913)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/46651, accessed 1 November 2009
16. Fuller Maitland, J.A., "Gaul, Alfred (Robert)", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 2017-04-17
17. Beale, Sally. "Brookfield, Charles Hallam Elton (1857–1913)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edition, January 2008, accessed 21 April 2010 (subscription required).
18. "Death of well-known comedian Mr Alec Hurley", Aberdeen Journal, 8 December 1913, p. 7