1906 in British music
Events
- August – Mary Davies is principal soloist at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.[1]
- Summer – Australian composer Percy Grainger begins collecting English folk songs with the aid of a phonograph.[2]
- date unknown
- Operatic soprano Maggie Teyte makes her public début at a Mozart festival in Paris.[3]
- 16-year-old Phyllis Dare takes over the leading role in The Belle of Mayfair[4] 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
- "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.[5]
Classical music: new works
- 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
- Dame Ethel Smyth & Henry Brewster – The Wreckers[6]
Musical theatre
- 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.[7]
Births
- 31 January – Benjamin Frankel, composer (died 1973)
- 19 February – Grace Williams, composer (died 1977)
- 13 March – Dave Kaye, pianist (died 1996)
- 22 April – Eric Fenby, composer, conductor, pianist, organist and teacher, amanuensis of Frederick Delius (died 1997)[8]
- 9 July – Elisabeth Lutyens, composer (died 2005)
- 24 August – Walter Braithwaite, composer (died 1991)
- 4 November – Arnold Cooke, composer (died 1983)[9]
Deaths
- 9 May – Helen Lemmens-Sherrington, concert and operatic soprano (born 1834)[10]
- 14 June – George Herbert, organist and composer of hymn tunes (born 1817)[11]
- 30 December – Eugène Goossens, père, Belgian-born conductor (born 1845)[12]
See also
References
- 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.
- "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.
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