This is a summary of 1926 in music in the United Kingdom .
List of years in British music
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c. May – Socialist composer Rutland Boughton stages a performance of his Nativity opera Bethlehem (1915 ) at Church House, Westminster , in a staging explicitly referencing the 1926 United Kingdom general strike .[ 1]
6 May – In the midst of the General Strike , a concert of Leos Janácek 's work is held at the Wigmore Hall , attended by the composer himself.[ 2] 20 October – Ethel Smyth 's opera Entente Cordiale Royal College of Music the previous year.[ 3] November – Gertrude Lawrence becomes the first British performer to star in a US musical on Broadway, starring in Oh, Kay! [ 4]
8 December – The premiere of Dame Ethel Smyth 's Sonata in A minor for cello and piano is held in London, nearly 40 years after the work was composed.[ 2] 14 December – The mother of teenage composer Benjamin Britten brings his work to the attention of Charles Macpherson .[ 2] 17 December – Composer John Ireland marries Dorothy Phillips, thirty years his junior, at Chelsea Register Office .[ 2] 26 December – Granville Bantock 's incidental music for Macbeth is used for the first time, in a production at the Prince Theatre, London, starring Sybil Thorndike .date unknown
Classical music: new works
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3 January – Sir George Martin , record producer (died 2016 )[ 14] 21 January – Brian Brockless , organist, composer, and conductor (died 1995 )11 February – Alexander Gibson , conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera (died 1995)[ 15] 20 February – Gillian Lynne , choreographer (died 2018 )[ 16] 14 March – Lita Roza , singer (died 2006 )[ 17] 31 May — Duncan Campbell , trumpeter (died 2013 )2 July – Morag Beaton , operatic soprano (died 2010 )[ 18] 18 July – Bryan Johnson , singer (died 1995)17 August – George Melly , jazz singer (died 2007 )[ 19] 17 November – Robert Earl , singer30 December – Stan Tracey , jazz pianist and composer (died 2013 )[ 20]
^ Hurd, Michael (1983). "Rutland Boughton (1878–1960), The Immortal Hour" . Hyperion . Retrieved 2014-09-01 .^ a b c d Music and History: 1926 Archived 2012-08-28 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed 28 January 2016^ Smyth, Ethel (1987). The Memoirs of Ethel Smyth (abridged, edited and annotated by Richard Crichton), p. 290. Viking. ISBN 0670806552
^ Morley, Sheridan, Gertrude Lawrence . New York, New York: McGraw-Hill 1981; ISBN 978-0-07-043149-2 . p. 61
^ The Times ^ Dibble, Jeremy. "Davies, Sir (Henry) Walford (1869–1941)" , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, online edition, January 2011, retrieved 6 December 2015 (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ "Central and Webber Douglas to Merge." The Stage ^ H. D., "Alfred Herbert Brewer, 1865–1928", The Musical Times , Vol. 69, No. 1022 (Apr. 1, 1928), pp. 315–316
^ "List of works – T to Y" . The John Ireland Trust . Archived from the original on July 27, 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2015 .^ Achenbach, Andrew, Notes for EMI 75983, Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto; Delius: Piano Concerto; Finzi: Eclogue; Piers Lane, piano; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley.
^ "6 Studies in English Folk Song, for cello and piano" . Ralph Vaughan Williams: Chamber Works . Classical Archives. 2008. Retrieved 2011-02-24 .^ Harvard Library Archived 2017-12-13 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed 27 January 2016^ PBS: Vernon Duke Archived 2012-11-12 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed 22 April 2013^ Adam Sweeting (9 March 2016). "Sir George Martin obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 19 February 2019 . ^ "Sir Alexander Gibson obituary" The Independent . 16 January 1995. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 19 February 2019 .^ Jim Hiley (2 July 2018). "Dame Gillian Lynne obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 19 February 2019 . ^ Dave Laing (18 August 2008). "Lita Roza" . The Guardian . Retrieved 29 December 2023 . ^ "Obituary: Morag Beaton" . The Scotsman . 27 April 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2019 .^ Julian Mitchell (6 July 2007). "George Melly" . The Guardian . Retrieved 19 February 2019 . ^ John Fordham (6 December 2013). "Stan Tracey obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 19 February 2019 . ^ Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland ^ "Charles Wood (WT888C)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge. Retrieved 29 December 2023 .
