1906 in British music
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This is a summary of 1906 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
[edit]- 18 January - The first performance of Charles Villiers Stanford’s Symphony No 6 in Eb major takes place at the Queen’s Hall with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer.
- 25 January - The Kruse Quartet, supplemented by other players (including Lionel Tertis), give the first performance of Charles Villiers Stanford‘s Nonet at the Aeolian Hall in London.[1]
- 1 March - Nicholas Gatty‘s one-act opera Greysteel has its premiere in Sheffield during the University Opera week.
- 29 March - The first performance of James Friskin‘s Quintet by the Cathie Quartet takes place at the Aeolian Hall in London.
- 24 April - The winning three compositions of the 1905 Cobbett Competition for chamber music are performed by The Saunders Quartet at Stationers Hall: William Hurlstone‘s Phantasie for String Quartet (first prize); Haydn Wood‘s Phantasy Quartet (second prize); Frank Bridge‘s Phantasie Quartet (third prize).[2]
- 14 May - The first complete performance in the UK of Coppelia by Delibes is seen at the Empire Theatre, with Adeline Genée in the lead role.
- 14 June - The first performance of Variations on an African Air by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor takes place at a London Philharmonic Society concert, Queen's Hall, conducted by Frederick Cowen.[3]
- 23 August - The Norfolk Rhapsody No 1 in E minor by Ralph Vaughan Williams is performed for the first time at the Proms in London.
- August – Mary Davies is principal soloist at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.[4]
- Summer – Australian composer Percy Grainger begins collecting English folk songs with the aid of a phonograph.[5]
- 3 October
- Hans Richter conducts the first performance of The Bells, a poem for chorus and orchestra by Joseph Holbrooke, at the Birmingham Music Festival.
- Edward Elgar's oratorio The Kingdom, Op. 51, is first performed at the Birmingham Music Festival, conducted by the composer with soloists Agnes Nicholls, Muriel Foster, John Coates and William Higley.
- 25 October - Henry Wood conducts the first performance of Joseph Holbrooke’s orchestral suite Les Hommages at Queen’s Hall.
- 14 November -The Vicar of Wakefield (Goldsmith), a light opera by Liza Lehmann, is produced in London.[3]
- 15 November - Cyril Scott's orchestral and choral Christmas Overture is performed for the first time by the London Symphony Orchestra.[6]
- date unknown
- Operatic soprano Maggie Teyte makes her public début at a Mozart festival in Paris.[7]
- 16-year-old Phyllis Dare takes over the leading role in The Belle of Mayfair[8] at the Vaudeville Theatre when Edna May leaves suddenly because of a disagreement with the producer.
- Composer Lawrence Wright opens a music shop in his home city of Leicester.
Popular music
[edit]- "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones" (hymn), with words by Athelstan Riley, first published in The English Hymnal by Oxford University Press, edited by Percy Dearmer and Ralph Vaughan Williams.[9]
Classical music: new works
[edit]- Granville Bantock – Sappho, nine fragments with a Prelude
- Rutland Boughton – Love in Spring, symphonic poem
- Frank Bridge
- Three Idylls for String Quartet
- String Quartet No. 1 in E minor "Bologna"
- Katharine Emily Eggar – Piano Quartet in D minor and major
- Edward Elgar – The Kingdom (oratorio)
Opera
[edit]- Dame Ethel Smyth & Henry Brewster – The Wreckers[10]
Musical theatre
[edit]- 20 June – See See, with music by Sidney Jones, book by Charles H. Brookfield, and lyrics by Adrian Ross, opens at the Prince of Wales Theatre; it runs for 152 performances.[11]
Births
[edit]- 31 January – Benjamin Frankel, composer (died 1973)
- 19 February – Grace Williams, composer (died 1977)
- 13 March – Dave Kaye, pianist (died 1996)
- 5 April – Charles Proctor, conductor, pianist, composer, (died 1996)
- 22 April – Eric Fenby, composer, conductor, pianist, organist and teacher, amanuensis of Frederick Delius (died 1997)[12]
- 9 July – Elisabeth Lutyens, composer (died 2005)
- 24 August – Walter Braithwaite, composer (died 1991)
- 4 November – Arnold Cooke, composer (died 1983)[13]
- 23 November – Mervyn Roberts, Welsh composer
Deaths
[edit]- 9 May – Helen Lemmens-Sherrington, concert and operatic soprano (born 1834)[14]
- 14 June – George Herbert, organist and composer of hymn tunes (born 1817)[15]
- 30 December – Eugène Goossens, père, Belgian-born conductor (born 1845)[16]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Jeremy Dibble. Notes to Hyperion CDA66291 (1989)
- ^ IMSLP: 1905 Cobbett Competition for Phantasy String Quartet
- ^ a b Slonimsky, Nicolas (1994). Music Since 1900, 5th ed. Schirmer.
- ^ Griffith, Robert David. "Davies , Mary (1855–1930)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
- ^ Tim Rayborn (15 April 2016). A New English Music: Composers and Folk Traditions in England’s Musical Renaissance from the Late 19th to the Mid–20th Century. McFarland. pp. 201–. ISBN 978-1-4766-2494-5.
- ^ Desmond Scott, Lewis Foreman and Leslie De'Ath (eds.): The Cyril Scott Companion (2018)
- ^ "Dame Maggie Teyte". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
- ^ "Phyllis Dare (1890-1975), Actress". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
- ^ Shomsky, Tiffany. "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones: Worship Notes". Hymnary.org. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
- ^ Fuller, Sophie. "DAME ETHEL SMYTH, THE WRECKERS". American Symphony Orchestra. Archived from the original on 30 June 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
- ^ "(James) Sidney Jones". The Guide to Light Opera and Operetta. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- ^ Mary Christison Huismann (2009). Frederick Delius: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-415-99364-7.
- ^ The Double Reed. International Double Reed Society. 2006.
- ^ Davey, Henry. "Lemmens-Sherrington, Madame Helen (1834–1906)", Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 1912, online edition retrieved 17 April 2014 (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2.
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge. Encyclopœdia Britannica. 1963. p. 522.