1905 in British music

This is a summary of 1905 in music in the United Kingdom.

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Events

• March – Percy Grainger attends a lecture by Lucy Broadwood and becomes interested in collecting folk songs. In the summer, he goes on a tour of Denmark.[1]
• 21 October – The Fantasia on British Sea Songs, arranged by Sir Henry Wood to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of Trafalgar, is performed for the first time, by the Queen's Hall Orchestra at a Promenade Concert.[2][3]
• date unknown – German-born George Henschel becomes organist of the German Embassy Church in London.[4]

Popular music

• "I Love a Lassie", by Harry Lauder[5]

Classical music: new works

• Benjamin Dale – Piano Sonata[6]
• Frederick Delius
  • A Mass of Life (part 1)
  • Violin Sonata no 1[7]
• Edward Elgar – Introduction and Allegro for Strings
• Charles Villiers Stanford – Serenade in F major
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – Songs of Travel[8]
• Haydn Wood – Phantasy String Quartet

Opera

• Amherst Webber – Fiorella[9]

Musical theatre

• 30 May – The Spring Chicken, with music by Ivan Caryll and Lionel Monckton and lyrics by Adrian Ross, Percy Greenbank and George Grossmith, opens at the Gaety Theatre; it runs for 401 performances.[10]

Births

• 2 January – Michael Tippett, composer (died 1998) [11]
• 11 March – Michael Carr, composer and songwriter (died 1968)[12]
• 2 May – Alan Rawsthorne, composer (died 1971)[13]
• 23 August – Constant Lambert, composer (died 1951)[14]
• 7 November – William Alwyn, composer (died 1985)[15]
• 21 November – Ted Ray, comedian and violinist (died 1977)[16]
• date unknown – Fred Hartley, pianist, conductor and composer of light music (died 1980)[17]

Deaths

• 12 February – Edward Dannreuther, Strasbourg-born pianist, founder of the English Wagner Society (b. 1844)[18]
• 29 June – Herbert Stephen Irons, organist and composer, 71[19]
• 20 September – Walter Cecil Macfarren, pianist, composer and conductor, 79[20]
• 18 October – Emmie Owen, operatic soprano and actress, 33 (hepatic cirrhosis gastric ulcer)[21]

See also

• 1905 in the United Kingdom

References

1. 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. 199–. ISBN 978-1-4766-2494-5.
2. Kennedy, Michael & Joyce; Rutherford-Johnson, Tim (2012). Oxford Dictionary of Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 279–280. ISBN 978-0-19-957854-2.
3. "Proms 1905, Prom 55". BBC. Retrieved 4 July 2015.
4. 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.
5. Don Tyler (2 April 2007). Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era. McFarland. pp. 36–. ISBN 978-0-7864-2946-2.
6. Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2.
7. Mary Christison Huismann (2009). Frederick Delius: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge. pp. 7–. ISBN 978-0-415-99364-7.
8. Alain Frogley; Aidan J. Thomson (14 November 2013). The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams. Cambridge University Press. pp. 106–. ISBN 978-0-521-19768-7.
9. Paul Rodmell (13 May 2016). Opera in the British Isles, 1875–1918. Taylor & Francis. pp. 426–. ISBN 978-1-317-08544-7.
10. "1905". The Guide to Musical Theatre. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
11. Paul Driver (10 January 1998). "Obituary: Sir Michael Tippett". The Independent. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
12. Evelyn Mack Truitt (1 July 1977). Who was who on screen. Bowker. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-8352-0914-4.
13. David Mason Greene (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 1344. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.
14. Bruce R. Schueneman (1997). Minor Ballet Composers: Biographical Sketches of Sixty-six Underappreciated Yet Significant Contributors to the Body of Western Ballet Music. Psychology Press. p. 54. ISBN 978-0-7890-0323-2.
15. John C. Dressler (March 2013). William Alwyn: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-136-66003-0.
16. British Film and Television Yearbook. British and American Film Press. 1956. p. 45.
17. Fred Hartley piano solos, Celtic Music. Retrieved 17 September 2010
18. Randel Don (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. p. 196. ISBN 978-0-674-37299-3.
19. Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2.
20. Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 219. ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2.
21. Tony Joseph (2005). Emmie Owen and Florence Perry: "maidenly perfection". Bunthorne Books. ISBN 978-0-9507992-7-8.