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This is a summary of 1915 in music in the United Kingdom.
Frederick Theodore Albert Delius was an English composer. Born in Bradford in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce. He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage an orange plantation. He soon neglected his managerial duties, and in 1886 returned to Europe.
Master of the King's Music is a post in the Royal Household of the United Kingdom. The holder of the post originally served the monarch of England, directing the court orchestra and composing or commissioning music as required.
Philip Arnold Heseltine, known by the pseudonym Peter Warlock, was a British composer and music critic. The Warlock name, which reflects Heseltine's interest in occult practices, was used for all his published musical works. He is best known as a composer of songs and other vocal music; he also achieved notoriety in his lifetime through his unconventional and often scandalous lifestyle.
Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob CBE was an English composer and teacher. He was a professor at the Royal College of Music in London from 1924 until his retirement in 1966, and published four books and many articles about music. As a composer he was prolific: the list of his works totals more than 700, mostly compositions of his own, but a substantial minority of orchestrations and arrangements of other composers' works. Those whose music he orchestrated range from William Byrd to Edward Elgar to Noël Coward.
John Alexander Fuller Maitland was an influential British music critic and scholar from the 1880s to the 1920s. He encouraged the rediscovery of English music of the 16th and 17th centuries, particularly Henry Purcell's music and English virginal music. He also propounded the notion of an English Musical Renaissance in the second half of the 19th century, particularly praising Charles Villiers Stanford and Hubert Parry.
This is a summary of 1934 in music in the United Kingdom.
This is a summary of 1926 in music in the United Kingdom.
The Sackbut was a British music journal published from 1920 to 1934 by the Curwen Press. It published general articles on mainly contemporary, both British and foreign, music as well as reports on performances and records. It was founded by the composer critics Cecil Gray and Philip Heseltine. The singer and composer Ursula Greville was an editor from July 1921 to 1934.
This is a summary of 1924 in music in the United Kingdom.
This is a summary of 1923 in music in the United Kingdom.
This is a summary of 1920 in music in the United Kingdom.
This is a summary of 1914 in music in the United Kingdom.
This is a summary of 1916 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 1910 in music in the United Kingdom.
This is a summary of 1907 in music in the United Kingdom.
This is a summary of 1906 in music in the United Kingdom.
This is a summary of 1905 in music in the United Kingdom.
This is a summary of 1900 in music in the United Kingdom.