1928 in British music
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This is a summary of 1928 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
January â Edward German is knighted for services to music.[1]
- April â While studying under Frank Bridge, 15-year-old Benjamin Britten composes his String Quartet in F.[2]
- June â Herbert Sumsion leaves the United States for the UK to take up the post of organist at Gloucester Cathedral.
- 9 August â Percy Grainger marries Swedish artist Ella Ström at the Hollywood Bowl.[3]
- September â Benjamin Britten goes as a boarder to Gresham's School, in Holt, Norfolk.[4]
- 10 October â Eric Fenby arrives in Grez to begin work as amanuensis for Frederick Delius.[5]
- date unknown
- Malcolm Sargent becomes conductor of the Royal Choral Society.[6]
- Arnold Bax begins taking an annual working holiday in Morar, in the west Scottish Highlands.
Popular music
- Noël Coward â "World Weary"[7]
Classical music: new works
- Kenneth J. Alford â Dunedin (march)
- Granville Bantock â Pagan Symphony
- Arthur Bliss â Pastoral 'Lie strewn the white flocks'
- Hamilton Harty â Suite for Cello and Piano
- Gustav Holst â A Moorside Suite[8]
- John Ireland â Two Songs, 1928
- Cyril Rootham â "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"
- Ralph Vaughan Williams â Te Deum in G major
- William Walton â Sinfonia Concertante
Opera
- Stanley Bate â The Forest Enchanted[9]
- William Henry Bell â The Mouse Trap; libretto after The Sire de Maletroit's Door by Robert Louis Stevenson
Musical theatre
- The Good Old Days of England, music by Percy Fletcher, libretto by Oscar Asche[10]
Births
- 17 January â Matt McGinn, folk singer (died 1977)
- 8 February â Osian Ellis, harpist
- 5 March â Diana Coupland, singer and actress (died 2006)
- 6 March â Ronald Stevenson, composer and pianist (died 2015)
- 13 March â Ronnie Hazlehurst, conductor and composer (died 2007)
- 2 April â April Cantelo, soprano (died 2024)
- 4 April
- Jimmy Logan, entertainer (died 2001)
- Monty Norman, singer and composer of the James Bond signature tune
- 19 April â Alexis Korner, blues musician and historian (died 1984)
- 27 May â Thea Musgrave, composer
- 6 July â Peter Glossop, operatic baritone (died 2008)
- 16 July â Bryden Thomson, orchestral conductor (died 1991)
- 20 July â Peter Ind, jazz double-bassist and record producer
- 26 August â Andrew Porter, music critic (died 2015)
- 6 October â Flora MacNeil, singer in Scottish Gaelic (died 2015)
- 20 December â Donald Adams, operatic bass-baritone (died 1996)
Deaths
- 1 March â Sir Herbert Brewer, organist and composer (born 1865)
- 27 March â Leslie Stuart, musical theatre composer (born 1863)
- 13 May â David Thomas, composer (born 1881)
- 21 June â Marie Novello, pianist (born 1898)
- 12 September â Howard Talbot, conductor and composer (born 1865)
- 30 October â Percy Anderson, D'Oyly Carte stage designer (born 1851)
- 26 November â Herbert Sullivan, nephew and biographer of Sir Arthur Sullivan (born 1868)