This is a summary of 1918 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events 13 February – Cellist May Mukle and violist Rebecca Clarke give a recital at the Aeolian Hall, New York City, accompanied by Marjorie Hayward, performing works by Hubert Parry, Frank Bridge, and Clarke herself, including the premiėre of her Morpheus, written under the pen-name "Anthony Trent".Morpheus: holograph listing at WorldCat. August – Anglo-Welsh composer Philip Heseltine concludes a year's stay in Ireland with the writing of a number of songs which will be published under the pseudonym Peter Warlock. 29 September – The première of Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets takes place before an invited audience at the Queen's Hall, London, with orchestra conducted by Adrian Boult. December – Ralph Vaughan Williams is appointed Director of Music, First Army.

Popular music Ivan Caryll – "Some Day Waiting Will End" Harry Castling and Fred W. Leigh – "Where's Old Bill?"

Classical music: new works Kenneth J. Alford – The Vanished Army, march Arnold Bax String Quartet No. 1 in G major, GP. 199 Symphonic Variations, GP. 210 Frederick Delius – A Song Before Sunrise Edward Elgar – Violin Sonata in E minor

Musical theatre 1 June – Tails Up!, a revue starring Jack Buchanan, opens at Comedy Theatre, London, where it will run for 467 performances.Carson, Lionel The Stage Year Book Carson & Comerford Limited, 1919, p. 103. 5 August – Roses of Picardy, by Evelyn Thomas, opens at the Hippodrome, Cannock, before moving to the West End the following year.

Births 20 March – Marian McPartland, jazz pianist (died 2013) 16 April – Spike Milligan, comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright (died 2002) 5 June – Robert Docker, composer (died 1992) 19 August – Dilys Elwyn Edwards, composer (died 2012) 22 September – A. J. Potter, composer (died 1980) 2 December – Wilfred Heaton, composer (died 2000)

Deaths 15 January – Mark Sheridan, music hall performer, 53 (probable suicide by shooting)"Mr. Mark Sheridan's Death", The Glasgow Herald, 22 November 1918, p. 2 13 April – David Ffrangcon Davies, baritone, 62 26 August – Cecil Coles, composer, 29 (killed in action)Brief biography 7 September – Morfydd Llwyn Owen, singer, pianist and composer, 26 (complications from surgery for appendicitis)Cleaver, Emrys. "Morfydd Llwyn Owen (1891–1918)" in Musicians of Wales. Ruthin: John Jones 1968 7 October – Hubert Parry, composer, 70Dibble, Jeremy, "Parry, Sir (Charles) Hubert Hastings, baronet (1848–1918)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 18 April 2013

See also 1918 in the United Kingdom

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