1928 in British music

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This is a summary of 1928 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events[edit]

January – Edward German is knighted for services to music.^[1]

April – While studying under Frank Bridge, 15-year-old Benjamin Britten composes his String Quartet in F.^[2]
June – Herbert Sumsion leaves the United States for the UK to take up the post of organist at Gloucester Cathedral.
9 August – Percy Grainger marries Swedish artist Ella Ström at the Hollywood Bowl.^[3]
September – Benjamin Britten goes as a boarder to Gresham's School, in Holt, Norfolk.^[4]
10 October – Eric Fenby arrives in Grez to begin work as amanuensis for Frederick Delius.^[5]
date unknown
- Malcolm Sargent becomes conductor of the Royal Choral Society.^[6]
- Arnold Bax begins taking an annual working holiday in Morar, in the west Scottish Highlands.

Stanley Bate – The Forest Enchanted^[9]
William Henry Bell – The Mouse Trap; libretto after The Sire de Maletroit's Door by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Good Old Days of England, music by Percy Fletcher, libretto by Oscar Asche^[10]

17 January – Matt McGinn, folk singer (died 1977)
8 February – Osian Ellis, harpist
5 March – Diana Coupland, singer and actress (died 2006)
6 March – Ronald Stevenson, composer and pianist (died 2015)
13 March – Ronnie Hazlehurst, conductor and composer (died 2007)
2 April – April Cantelo, soprano
4 April
- Jimmy Logan, entertainer (died 2001)
- Monty Norman, singer and composer of the James Bond signature tune
19 April – Alexis Korner, blues musician and historian (died 1984)
27 May – Thea Musgrave, composer
6 July – Peter Glossop, operatic baritone (died 2008)
16 July – Bryden Thomson, orchestral conductor (died 1991)
20 July – Peter Ind, jazz double-bassist and record producer
26 August – Andrew Porter, music critic (died 2015)
6 October – Flora MacNeil, singer in Scottish Gaelic (died 2015)
20 December – Donald Adams, operatic bass-baritone (died 1996)

1 March – Sir Herbert Brewer, organist and composer (born 1865)
27 March – Leslie Stuart, musical theatre composer (born 1863)
13 May – David Thomas, composer (born 1881)
21 June – Marie Novello, pianist (born 1898)
12 September – Howard Talbot, conductor and composer (born 1865)
30 October – Percy Anderson, D'Oyly Carte stage designer (born 1851)
26 November – Herbert Sullivan, nephew and biographer of Sir Arthur Sullivan (born 1868)

^ Brian Rees (1986). A Musical Peacemaker: The Life and Music of Sir Edward German. Kensal Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-946041-49-7.
^ Mervyn Cooke (28 June 1999). The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten. Cambridge University Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-521-57476-1.
^ Robert Simon (1983). Percy Grainger: The Pictorial Biography. GIA Publications. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-87875-281-2.
^ Eric Walter White (1983). Benjamin Britten, His Life and Operas. University of California Press. pp. 21. ISBN 978-0-520-04894-2.
^ Eric Fenby (1996). Fenby on Delius: collected writings on Delius to mark Eric Fenby's 90th birthday. Thames Pub. p. 16.
^ Time & Tide. Time and Tide Publishing Company. January 1965. p. 30.
^ [1] Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine"World Weary" at the Noël Coward Music Index.
^ Holst, Imogen (1974), A Thematic Catalogue of Gustav Holst's Music. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-10004-X. pp. 150, 153, 171
^ Michael Barlow, "Stanley Bate". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians online.
^ Philip L Scowcroft, THE MUSIC OF PERCY FLETCHER. Accessed 19 June 2015