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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1912.
Walter Willson Cobbett was an English businessman and amateur violinist, and the editor/author of Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music. He instigated the influential Cobbett Competition for chamber music composition, and endowed the Cobbett Medal for services to chamber music.
Haydn Wood was a 20th-century English composer and concert violinist, best known for his 200 or so ballad style songs, including the popular Roses of Picardy.
Joseph Charles Holbrooke, sometimes given as Josef Holbrooke, was an English composer, conductor, and pianist.
Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens was an English conductor and composer.
Albert Edward Sammons CBE was an English violinist, composer and later violin teacher. Almost self-taught on the violin, he had a wide repertoire as both chamber musician and soloist, although his reputation rests mainly on his association with British composers, especially Elgar. He made a number of recordings over 40 years, many of which have been re-issued on CD.
Thomas Frederick Dunhill was a prolific English composer in many genres, though he is best known today for his light music and educational piano works. His compositions include much chamber music, a song cycle, The Wind Among the Reeds, and an operetta, Tantivy Towers, that had a successful London run in 1931. He was also a teacher, examiner and writer on musical subjects.
The Stratton String Quartet was a British musical ensemble active during the 1930s and 1940s. They were specially associated with the performance of British music, of which they gave numerous premieres, and were a prominent feature in the wartime calendar of concerts at the National Gallery. After the War the group was re-founded as the Aeolian Quartet.
The Piano Concerto in E-flat was John Ireland's only concerto. It was composed in 1930 and given its first performance on 2 October of that year by its dedicatee Helen Perkin at a Promenade Concert in the Queen's Hall. The work was an immediate success and was frequently performed by pianists such as Clifford Curzon, Moura Lympany, Eileen Joyce, Gina Bachauer and Arthur Rubinstein. While it is considered one of the best piano concertos ever written by an Englishman, it is not often heard nowadays and is not part of the standard repertoire.
Anthony Bernard was an English conductor, organist, pianist and composer.
This is a summary of 1929 in music in the United Kingdom.
This is a summary of 1927 in music in the United Kingdom.
Black conductors are musicians of African, Caribbean, African-American ancestry and other members of the African diaspora who are musical ensemble leaders who direct classical music performances, such as an orchestral or choral concerts, or jazz ensemble big band concerts by way of visible gestures with the hands, arms, face and head. Conductors of African descent are rare, as the vast majority are male and Caucasian.
Susan Spain-Dunk FRAM was an English composer, conductor and violinist/violist.
This is a summary of 1920 in music in the United Kingdom.
This is a summary of 1905 in music in the United Kingdom.
Harry Waldo Warner was an English viola player and composer, one of the founding members of the London String Quartet and a several times Cobbett Competition winner for his chamber music.
James Lockyer (1883–1962) was a British violist. He was the former principal violist of the Queen's Hall Orchestra and the Beecham Orchestra. He also played with the London Symphony Orchestra and the British Chamber Music Players, and was the violist in many string quartets and ensembles in the first half of the twentieth century.
John Rippiner Heath was a British composer, violinist and physician who lived and worked for most of his life in Wales.
Raymond Jeremy, FRAM, (1890-1969) was a British violist, known for his quartet playing, particularly the first performances of Edward Elgar's String Quartet and Piano Quintet. He was professor of violin and viola at the Royal Academy of Music in London and taught the violist Watson Forbes.
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- ↑ IMSLP: 1905 Cobbett Competition for Phantasy String Quartet
- 1 2 Slonimsky, Nicolas (1994). Music Since 1900, 5th ed. Schirmer.
- ↑ Griffith, Robert David. "Davies , Mary (1855–1930)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales . Retrieved 9 November 2014.
- ↑ 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.
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- ↑ "Dame Maggie Teyte". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
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- ↑ Shomsky, Tiffany. "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones: Worship Notes". Hymnary.org . Retrieved 13 April 2017.
- ↑ Fuller, Sophie. "DAME ETHEL SMYTH, THE WRECKERS". American Symphony Orchestra. Archived from the original on 30 June 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
- ↑ "(James) Sidney Jones". The Guide to Light Opera and Operetta. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
- ↑ Mary Christison Huismann (2009). Frederick Delius: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-415-99364-7.
- ↑ The Double Reed. International Double Reed Society. 2006.
- ↑ Davey, Henry. "Lemmens-Sherrington, Madame Helen (1834–1906)", Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 1912, online edition retrieved 17 April 2014 (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge. Encyclopœdia Britannica. 1963. p. 522.