1913 in British music explained

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]
  • 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.
• 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.^[9]
• 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.^[9]

Publications

• Francesco Berger – Reminiscences, Impressions, and Anecdotes.^[10]
• 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)^[11]
• 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)
• date unknown – Eiluned Davies, Anglo Welsh concert pianist and composer (died 1999)

Deaths

• 19 March – John Thomas, harpist and composer, 87
• 5 May – Helen Carte (Helen Lenoir; née Black), impresario, 60^[12]
• 17 July – Armes Beaumont, singer best known in Australia, 70^[13]
• 26 August – Michael Maybrick, singer and composer, 72^[14]
• 13 September – Alfred Gaul, composer, conductor and organist, 76
• 20 October – Charles Brookfield, musical theatre writer, 56 (tuberculosis)^[15]
• 6 December – Alexander Hurley, music hall performer, 42 (pneumonia)^[16]

See also

• 1913 in the United Kingdom

Notes and References

1. Web site: Luonnotar (Daughter of Nature). Jean Sibelius – The music. 2016-11-12.
2. Web site: MISS MARIE LLOYD. EVENING POST, VOLUME LXXXVI, ISSUE 113, 8 NOVEMBER 1913. Papers Past. 6 September 2017.
3. Book: Edward Foley. Mark Paul Bangert. Worship Music: A Concise Dictionary. 2000. Liturgical Press. 978-0-8146-5889-5. 27.
4. http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Novello.htm Novello Theatre History
5. Book: Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions. 1914. Library of Congress, Copyright Office..
6. Book: The Talking Machine Review. 1975. E. Bayly.
7. Book: Angela K. Smith. Krista Cowman. Landscapes and Voices of the Great War. 3 February 2017. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-351-85641-6. 50.
8. Web site: List of works – E to F . https://web.archive.org/web/20120727010621/http://www.johnirelandtrust.org/etof.htm . dead . July 27, 2012 . The John Ireland Trust . 3 May 2015 .
9. Web site: London Musicals 1910–1914. Over the Footlights. 8 September 2017.
10. Web site: Professor Francesco Berger: Obituary from The Times . Patrick Regan . 2002-08-27 . Robert Williams Buchanan (1841–1901) . 2013-02-16.
11. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/feb/26/guardianobituaries.obituaries1 Michael Freedland, "Obituary, Wally Ridley", The Guardian, 26 February 2007
12. Stedman, Jane W. "Carte, Helen (1852–1913)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004, ; accessed 12 September 2008
13. News: Singer of Bygone Years. Death of Mr. Armes Beaumont. Fine Career Closed. . . ((20,899)) . Victoria, Australia . 18 July 1913 . 27 December 2018 . 5 . National Library of Australia.
14. 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
15. 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).
16. "Death of well-known comedian Mr Alec Hurley", Aberdeen Journal, 8 December 1913, p. 7