1904 in British music

This is a summary of 1904 in music in the United Kingdom.

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Events

• A highly successful Elgar Festival is held at Covent Garden.[1]
• 15 July – Soprano Agnes Nicholls marries conductor Hamilton Harty.[2]
• date unknown
  • Albert Coates makes his début as conductor of the Leipzig opera with Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann.[3]
  • Cecil Sharp produces the first volume of his Folk Songs from Somerset.[4]

Popular music

• "Fu' The Noo", with words by. Harry Lauder & Gerald Grafton and music by Harry Lauder

Classical music: new works

• Edward Elgar – Canto Popolare
• Hamilton Harty – An Irish Symphony[5]
• Joseph Holbrooke – Horn Trio[6]
• Herbert Hughes – Songs of Uladh
• Cyril Scott – Rhapsody for orchestra No. 1
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – In the Fen Country[7]

Opera

• Frederick Delius – Koanga (premièred 30 March in Germany)[8]

Musical theatre

• 5 March – The Cingalee, by Lionel Monckton, Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, opens at Daly's Theatre; it runs for 365 performances.[9]
• 9 September – The Catch of the Season by Seymour Hicks and Cosmo Hamilton, with music by Herbert Haines and Evelyn Baker and lyrics by Charles H. Taylor, opens at the Vaudeville Theatre; it runs for 621 performances.[10]

Births

• 13 January – Richard Addinsell, composer (died 1977)[11]
• 29 February – H. Hugh Bancroft, organist, choirmaster and composer (died 1988)[12]
• 15 or 16 May – Eda Kersey, violinist (died 1944)[13]
• 26 May – George Formby, music hall performer, singer, actor and songwriter (died 1961)
• 10 August – Herbert Kennedy Andrews, organist and composer (died 1965)[14]
• 23 August – William Primrose, violist (died 1982)
• 17 September – Sir Frederick Ashton, dancer and choreographer (died 1988)
• 20 October – Anna Neagle, actress and singer (died 1986)
• 29 October – Vivian Ellis, composer (died 1996)[15]
• 30 November – Bretton Byrd, film composer (died 1959)
• 9 December – Elsie Randolph, actress, dancer and singer (died 1982)

Deaths

• 20 March – Louisa Pyne, operatic soprano and opera company manager, 75[16]
• 29 April – Nellie Farren, burlesque actress and singer, 56 (heart failure)[17]
• 30 May – Laura Joyce Bell, contralto singer and actress, 50[18]
• 20 July – Arthur Lloyd, singer, songwriter, comedian and impresario, 65[19]
• 31 October – Dan Leno, English music hall comedian, clog dancer and singer, 43[20]

See also

• 1904 in the United Kingdom

References

1. Byron Adams (14 November 2011). Edward Elgar and His World. Princeton University Press. p. 205. ISBN 1-4008-3210-1.
2. David Clive Greer (1978). Hamilton Harty: his life and music. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-76015-0.
3. Liner notes to EMI CD CZS 5 75486 2 (Albert Coates: Great Conductors of the Twentieth Century series), EMI 2002
4. Maud Karpeles (1967). Cecil Sharp: His Life and Work. Routledge & K. Paul.
5. Richard Pine (2 June 2014). The Disappointed Bridge: Ireland and the Post-Colonial World. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 160. ISBN 978-1-4438-6098-7.
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 1922.
7. Kennedy, Michael (1992). The Works of Ralph Vaughan Williams. Oxford University Press. p. 84. ISBN 978-0-19-816330-5.
8. Anderson, Robert (1992). "Koanga". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. 2. London: Macmillan. p. 1013. ISBN 0-333-48552-1.
9. J. P. Wearing "Productions 1904: The Cingalee; or, Sunny Ceylon", The London Stage 1900–1909: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel (2nd edition, Scarecrow Press; 5 December 2013), p. 176
10. "Show Girldom's Zenith in New Musical Play". The New York Times. 29 August 1905. p. 5.
11. Randel, Don Michael, ed. (1996). "Addinsell, Richard (Stewart)". The Harvard biographical dictionary of music. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press. pp. 5. ISBN 0-674-37299-9.
12. Anderson, Jeffrey. "Hugh Bancroft". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
13. The Cooper Collection
14. "ANDREWS, Herbert Kennedy (1904-1965)". AIM25 collection. 15 June 2018.
15. "Vivian Ellis". Robert Farnon Society. Archived from the original on 27 December 2009. Retrieved 18 June 2009. His date of birth is frequently given as 1904 but the Births, Marriages and Deaths Index gives 1903 as the year of registration.
16. The Times, 22 March 1904
17. Parker, John (1912). "Farren, Ellen" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 12–14.
18. The New York Times, "Laura Joyce Bell Dead." 30 May 1904, p. 5
19. Richard Anthony Baker (31 May 2014). British Music Hall: An Illustrated History. Pen and Sword. pp. 25–. ISBN 978-1-4738-3718-8.
20. "Death of Dan Leno", Western Times, 1 November 1904, p. 5