1909 in British music

This is a summary of 1909 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events

• 22 September - 11-year-old pianist Marie Novello makes her Proms début, playing the Piano Concerto no. 1 in E-flat by Franz Liszt.^[1]
• date unknown - Ada Jones records her most popular song, "The Yama Yama Man", for the Victor Light Opera Company.^[2]

Popular music

• "Boiled Beef and Carrots" by Charles Collins and Fred Murray
• "Master Kilby"; traditional folk song collected by Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles^[3]
• "The King's Way" by Edward Elgar and Caroline Alice Elgar^[4]

New recordings

• Mark Sheridan - "I Do Like To be Beside the Seaside"^[5]

Classical music: new works

• Arnold Bax – In the Faery Hills
• Gustav Holst – First Suite in E-flat for Military Band^[6]
• John Blackwood McEwen – A Solway Symphony
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Wasps^[7]

Opera

• Fallen Fairies by W. S. Gilbert and Edward German
• The Mountaineers, by Guy Eden and Reginald Somerville^[8]

Musical theatre

• 29 April – The Arcadians, with book by Mark Ambient and Alexander M. Thompson, lyrics by Arthur Wimperis, and music by Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot, opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it runs for 809 performances.^[9]

Births

• 1 May – George Melachrino, conductor, singer and composer (died 1965)
• 11 May – Herbert Murrill, organist and composer (died 1952)
• 12 June - Mansel Thomas, composer and conductor (died 1986)
• 25 August - Brian Easdale, composer (died 1995)
• 25 August - Arwel Hughes, composer (died 1988)

Deaths

• 4 February – James Lynam Molloy, poet, songwriter and composer, 71
• 7 June – P. W. Halton, conductor, 68

See also

• 1909 in the United Kingdom

References