1908 in British music

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This is a summary of 1908 in music in the United Kingdom.

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Events

Classical music: new works

Opera

Musical theatre

Births

Deaths

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1919.

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1907.

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1901.

<i>His Majesty</i> (comic opera)

His Majesty, or, The Court of Vingolia is an English comic opera in two acts with dialogue by F. C. Burnand, lyrics by R. C. Lehmann, additional lyrics by Adrian Ross and music by Alexander Mackenzie.

York Bowen English composer and pianist (1884–1961)

Edwin York Bowen was an English composer and pianist. Bowen's musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a talented conductor, organist, violist and horn player. Despite achieving considerable success during his lifetime, many of the composer's works remained unpublished and unperformed until after his death in 1961. Bowen's compositional style is widely considered as ‘Romantic’ and his works are often characterized by their rich harmonic language.

Edward Solomon

Edward Solomon was an English composer, conductor, orchestrator and pianist. He died at age 39 by which time he had written dozens of works produced for the stage, including several for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, including The Nautch Girl (1891). Early in his career, he was a frequent collaborator of Henry Pottinger Stephens. He had a bigamous marriage with Lillian Russell in the 1880s.

This is a summary of 1940 in music in the United Kingdom.

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This is a summary of 1927 in music in the United Kingdom.

This is a summary of 1922 in music in the United Kingdom.

This is a summary of 1920 in music in the United Kingdom.

This is a summary of 1915 in music in the United Kingdom.

This is a summary of 1917 in music in the United Kingdom.

This is a summary of 1919 in music in the United Kingdom.

This is a summary of 1911 in music in the United Kingdom.

This is a summary of 1907 in music in the United Kingdom.

This is a summary of 1902 in music in the United Kingdom.

This is a summary of 1901 in music in the United Kingdom.

Strafford Moss British tenor and actor

Frederick Strafford Moss was a British tenor and actor. He appeared in the Savoy operas of Gilbert and Sullivan from 1897 to 1913, mainly in touring companies of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, following which he had a career in musical theatre on the West End stage until 1931.

References

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    • Kennedy, Michael. Elgar Orchestral Music. BBC Publications, London, 1970. p 53.
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  5. Western Daily Press, "Romance and Tears of a Famous Ballad, Author of 'Hear You Calling Me' Dead", 5 Aug 1933, p. 9
  6. Lecture on Harry Evans (Merseyside Welsh Heritage Society, November 12th 2011), by Professor Huw Rees, President, Liverpool Welsh Choral Union
  7. Savoy Theatre. "A Welsh Sunset", The Times, 18 July 1908, p. 10
  8. Cast and productions details at The Play Pictorial website (1902–1910) of the Templeman Library at the University of Kent at Canterbury
  9. Synopsis, list of roles and list of musical numbers
  10. Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers . Retrieved 30 December 2010.
  11. Spike Hughes, Opening Bars – Beginning an Autobiography (Pilot Press Ltd, London, 1946)