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- Events
- Popular music
- Classical music: new works
- Opera
- Musical theatre
- Births
- Deaths
- See also
- References
{{1910s in music (UK)}}This is a summary of 1914 in music in the United Kingdom. Events- February – Regal Recordings issues its first records.
- 27 February – George Butterworth's The Banks of Green Willow is premièred at West Kirby, Liverpool, conducted by Adrian Boult.
- 16 March – A new concert hall, the Usher Hall, opens in Edinburgh.
- 26 August – Rutland Boughton's "fairy opera" The Immortal Hour is premièred at Glastonbury Assembly Rooms as part of the inaugural Glastonbury Festival, co-founded by Boughton himself.[1]
- 24 October – Adelina Patti gives her final public performance, in a Red Cross concert for the benefit of First World War veterans, at London's Royal Albert Hall.[2]
Popular music- Paul Rubens – "Your King and Country Want You"
Classical music: new works- Kenneth J. Alford – Colonel Bogey March
- Granville Bantock – The Song of Liberty
- Frederick Delius – Violin Sonata No. 1
- Edward Elgar – "The Shower" and "The Fountain", SATB unacc., words by Henry Vaughan, Op. 71 Nos.1 and 2
- Herbert Howells – Piano Concerto No. 1
- Roger Quilter – A Children's Overture
- Ralph Vaughan Williams
- The Lark Ascending
- Symphony No. 2, A London Symphony
Opera- Rutland Boughton – The Immortal Hour (see Events)
Musical theatre- 4 November – Revival of The Earl and the Girl by Seymour Hicks, with lyrics by Percy Greenbank and music by Ivan Caryll, at the Aldwych Theatre.[3]
Births- 11 March – William Lloyd Webber, organist and composer (died 1982)
- 24 May – Harry Parr Davies, composer and songwriter (died 1955)
- 23 August – Harold Truscott, composer, pianist, broadcaster and writer on music (died 1992)
- 14 December – Rosalyn Tureck, pianist (died 2003)
Deaths- 7 January – Patrick Weston Joyce, historian and musicologist, 86
- 23 July – Harry Evans, conductor and composer, 41
- 13 September – Robert Hope-Jones, inventor of the theatre organ, 55 (suicide)[4]
See also- 1914 in the United Kingdom
References1. ^{{cite web|last=Hurd|authorlink=Michael Hurd (composer)|first=Michael|year=1983|title=Rutland Boughton (1878–1960), The Immortal Hour|publisher=Hyperion|url=http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=CDD22040|accessdate=2014-09-01}}
2. ^"Metropolitan Gossip – The King and Queen at a Patriotic Concert", The Grantham Journal, Saturday 31 October 1914, page 5.
3. ^"The Theatrical Week", The Times, 8 February 1915, p. 10
4. ^"Death of Robert Hope-Jones" (19 September 1914) Music Trade Review
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