1926 in British music

This is a summary of 1926 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events

c. May - Socialist composer Rutland Boughton stages a performance of his Nativity opera Bethlehem (1915) at Church House, Westminster, in a staging explicitly referencing the 1926 United Kingdom general strike.^[1]
6 May - In the midst of the General Strike, a concert of Leos Janácek's work is held at the Wigmore Hall, attended by the composer himself.^[2]
8 December - The premiere of Dame Ethel Smyth's Sonata in A minor for cello and piano is held in London, nearly 40 years after the work was composed.^[2]
14 December - The mother of teenage composer Benjamin Britten brings his work to the attention of Charles Macpherson.^[2]
17 December - Composer John Ireland marries Dorothy Phillips, thirty years his junior, at Chelsea Register Office.^[2]
26 December - Granville Bantock's incidental music for Macbeth is used for the first time, in a production at the Prince Theatre, London, starring Sybil Thorndike.
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- Operatic baritone Leslie Rands marries his D'Oyly Carte co-star Marjorie Eyre.
- Eugène Goossens, fils, joins the British National Opera Company as a conductor.^[3]
- Sir Walford Davies resigns his professorship at University College, Aberystwyth.^[4]

3 January - Sir George Martin, record producer
21 January - Brian Brockless, organist, composer, and conductor (died 1995)
11 February - Alexander Gibson, conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera (died 1995)
20 February – Gillian Lynne, choreographer
14 March - Lita Roza, singer (died 2006)
May — Duncan Campbell, trumpeter
2 July - Morag Beaton, operatic soprano (died 2010)
18 July - Bryan Johnson, singer (died 1995)
17 August – George Melly, jazz singer (died 2007)
17 November - Robert Earl, singer
30 December - Stan Tracey, jazz pianist and composer (died 2013)

^ Hurd, Michael (1983). "Rutland Boughton (1878-1960), The Immortal Hour". Hyperion. Retrieved 2014-09-01.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Music and History: 1926. Accessed 28 January 2016
^ The Times obituary, 2 August 1958, p. 8
^ Dibble, Jeremy. "Davies, Sir (Henry) Walford (1869–1941)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, online edition, January 2011, retrieved 6 December 2015 (subscription or UK public library membership required)
^ "List of works – T to Y". The John Ireland Trust. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
^ Achenbach, Andrew, Notes for EMI 75983, Vaughn Williams: Piano Concerto; Delius: Piano Concerto; Finzi: Eclogue; Piers Lane, piano; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley.
^ "6 Studies in English Folk Song, for cello and piano". Ralph Vaughan Williams: Chamber Works. Classical Archives. 2008. Retrieved 2011-02-24.
^ Harvard Library. Accessed 27 January 2016
^ PBS: Vernon Duke. Accessed 22 April 2013
^ Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. Accessed 28 January 2016