This is a summary of 1926 in music in the United Kingdom.
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- 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]
- 20 October – Ethel Smyth's opera Entente Cordiale receives its first public stage performance in Bristol, having been premièred by students at the Royal College of Music the previous year.[3]
- November – Gertrude Lawrence becomes the first British performer to star in a US musical on Broadway, starring in Oh, Kay!.[4]
- 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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- 3 January – Sir George Martin, record producer (died 2016)[14]
- 21 January – Brian Brockless, organist, composer, and conductor (died 1995)
- 11 February – Alexander Gibson, conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera (died 1995)[15]
- 20 February – Gillian Lynne, choreographer (died 2018)[16]
- 14 March – Lita Roza, singer (died 2006)[17]
- 31 May — Duncan Campbell, trumpeter (died 2013)
- 2 July – Morag Beaton, operatic soprano (died 2010)[18]
- 18 July – Bryan Johnson, singer (died 1995)
- 17 August – George Melly, jazz singer (died 2007)[19]
- 17 November – Robert Earl, singer
- 30 December – Stan Tracey, jazz pianist and composer (died 2013)[20]
Smyth, Ethel (1987). The Memoirs of Ethel Smyth (abridged, edited and annotated by Richard Crichton), p. 290. Viking. ISBN 0670806552
H. D., "Alfred Herbert Brewer, 1865–1928", The Musical Times, Vol. 69, No. 1022 (Apr. 1, 1928), pp. 315–316
Achenbach, Andrew, Notes for EMI 75983, Vaughan Williams: Piano Concerto; Delius: Piano Concerto; Finzi: Eclogue; Piers Lane, piano; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley.
Dave Laing (18 August 2008). "Lita Roza". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
Julian Mitchell (6 July 2007). "George Melly". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 February 2019.