1947 in British music

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List of years in British music

This is a summary of 1947 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events[]

  • 11–15 June – The first Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod is held in Wales, with W. S. Gwynn Williams as its musical director.[1]
  • 19 June – Kathleen Ferrier appears at Glyndebourne in Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice.
  • July – Conductor Malcolm Sargent is invested with a knighthood for his services to music.[2]
  • August – Edmund Rubbra begins work on his Symphony No. 5 in B flat, Op. 63.[3]
  • 22 August – The first Edinburgh International Festival opens. Its co-founder and first director is Sir Rudolf Bing. The first Festival concentrates mainly on classical music, a highlight being concerts given by the Vienna Philharmonic, reunited with their erstwhile conductor Bruno Walter, who had left Europe after the Nazi occupation of his homeland.[4]
  • 3 November – The Royal Variety Performance, held at the London Palladium and attended by King George VI, includes performances by Bud Flanagan, Wilson, Keppel and Betty, Borrah Minnevitch's Harmonica Rascals, Valerie Tandy and Gracie Fields.
  • December – Benjamin Britten and singers Joan Cross and Peter Pears combine with designer John Piper and producer Eric Crozier to found the English Opera Group.[5][6]
  • date unknown
    • Jack Brymer becomes principal clarinettist of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Gracie Fields hosts Our Gracie's Working Party on BBC radio; in the series, she visits twelve towns (beginning with Rochdale), compering and performing in a live show of music and entertainment, with local talents on the bill.

Popular music[]

Classical music: new works[]

Opera[]

Film and Incidental music[]

Musical theatre[]

Musical films[]

  • None

Births[]

Deaths[]

  • 11 March – Victor Hely-Hutchinson, South African-born British composer, 45 (pneumonia)[10]
  • 2 May – Louie Henri, singer and actress, 83
  • 3 May – Katie Moss, violinist, pianist, singer, and composer of "The Floral Dance", 66
  • 30 May – Sir Sydney Nicholson, choir director, organist and composer, 72
  • 2 June – Herman Darewski, composer and conductor, 64
  • 24 July – Ernest Austin, composer, 72
  • 11 September – Walter Galpin Alcock, organist and composer, 85
  • 29 October – Theodore Holland, composer, 69
  • 14 December – Will Fyffe, comedian and singer, 62 (fell from hotel room window)[11]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Llangollen International Eisteddfod – How it Started". Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod. Archived from the original on 2017-08-24. Retrieved 2012-05-08.
  2. ^ Stone, David. "Malcolm Sargent" Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine. Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 13 October 2001, accessed 15 July 2011
  3. ^ Grover, Ralph Scott. The Music of Edmund Rubbra. Aldershot: Scolar Press: 1993. ISBN 0-85967-910-1. Includes a worklist.
  4. ^ G Bruce, Festival in the North, The story of the Edinburgh Festival, Robert Hale, London 1975, p.20
  5. ^ Gilbert, Susie (2009). Opera for Everybody. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-22493-7. p. 107
  6. ^ Mitchell, Donald (ed) (2004). Letters From A Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 3 1946–51. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-22282-X. p. 138
  7. ^ Discogs discography. Accessed 22 June 2014
  8. ^ "Coronation Scot". Hyperion. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  9. ^ Richard Morrison (20 February 2004). "Pally at the Halle". The Times. Retrieved 2007-09-23.
  10. ^ David Mason Greene (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 1318. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.
  11. ^ 4 The Guardian, June 2006
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