This is a summary of 1919 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events April – Poet Robert Graves, temporarily living in Wales, asks composer John Rippiner Heath to set some of his work to music. 7 April – The Original Dixieland Jazz Band arrives in the UK for a 15-month tour. 22 July – Manuel de Falla's ballet El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat) receives its world premiere in London, performed by Ballets Russes. 19 August – The Southern Syncopated Orchestra, while touring the UK, performs for King Edward VII of the United Kingdom.BBC: London – History, "London's jazz legends". Accessed 10 December 2012. Ernest Ansermet's review is considered one of the first serious pieces of jazz criticism. 27 October – Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto receives its première in London, performed by Felix Salmond. The concert goes ahead with inadequate rehearsal time, because of Albert Coates, who is conducting the rest of the programme. Elsie Griffin joins the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.

Popular music Fred W. Leigh & Charles Collins – "My Old Man (Said Follow the Van)" "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" by Elizabeth M. Knowle, 1999

Classical music: new works Arnold Bax – Tintagel Rebecca Clarke – Viola Sonata Gustav Holst – Ode to Death Charles Villiers Stanford – A Song of Agincourt Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (revised version)

Opera Rutland Boughton – The Moon Maiden Frederick Delius – Fennimore and GerdaBoyden, Matthew, et al, The Rough Guide to Opera, Rough Guides, 2002.

Musical theatre 22 October – Maggie, with music by Marcel Lattès and lyrics by Adrian Ross, starring Winifred Barnes, opens at the Oxford Theatre, London, where it will run for 108 performances.

Births

25 January – Norman Newell, record producer and lyricist (died 2004)

10 March – Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (died 1991) 13 August – George Shearing, jazz pianist and composer (died 2011) 15 August – Bernard Barrell, musician, music teacher and composer (died 2005) 4 September – Teddy Johnson, popular singer (died 2018) 2 October John W. Duarte, writer, guitarist and composer (died 2004) Sean 'ac Donncha, Irish traditional singer (died 1996) 11 November – Hamish Henderson, folk song collector (died 2002) 3 December – Charles Craig, operatic tenor (died 1997)Forbes, Elizabeth, Obituary: Charles Craig, The Independent, 25 January 1997

Deaths 20 March – Pauline Markham, vaudeville actress, singer and dancer, 71Pauline Markham Dies. New York Times (New York City), March 21, 1919; p. 13 2 June – Ernest Ford, conductor and composer, 61 27 September – Adelina Patti, Italian-French opera singer resident in Wales, 76 date unknown – Oliveria Prescott, writer and composer, 75/76

See also 1919 in the United Kingdom

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