1906 in British music

This is a summary of 1906 in music in the United Kingdom.

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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, gook 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)
• 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

• 14 June – George Herbert, organist and composer of hymn tunes (born 1817)[10]

See also

• 1906 in the United Kingdom

References

1. Griffith, Robert David. "Davies , Mary (1855–1930)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
2. 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.
3. "Dame Maggie Teyte". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
4. "Phyllis Dare (1890-1975), Actress". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
5. Shomsky, Tiffany. "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones: Worship Notes". Hymnary.org. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
6. Fuller, Sophie. "DAME ETHEL SMYTH, THE WRECKERS". American Symphony Orchestra. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
7. "(James) Sidney Jones". The Guide to Light Opera and Operetta. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
8. Mary Christison Huismann (2009). Frederick Delius: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-415-99364-7.
9. The Double Reed. International Double Reed Society. 2006.
10. 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.