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This is a summary of 1943 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
Popular music
Classical music: new works
Film and Incidental music
Musical theatre
Musical films
Births
- 7 January – Richard Armstrong, organist and conductor
- 16 January
- 28 January – Dick Taylor, bass player, songwriter, and producer (The Rolling Stones, The Pretty Things, and The Mekons)
- 29 January
- 16 February – Howard Riley, English pianist and composer
- 25 February – George Harrison, guitarist, singer and songwriter (died 2001)[8]
- 9 March – David Matthews, composer
- 22 March – Keith Relf, lead vocalist and harmonica player of the Yardbirds (died 1976)[9]
- 29 March – Eric Idle, actor, writer, and songwriter
- 16 April
- 17 April – Elinor Bennett, harpist
- 20 April – Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor[11]
- 25 April – Tony Christie, singer
- 8 May
- 11 May – Les Chadwick, bass player (Gerry and the Pacemakers) (died 2019)
- 14 May – Jack Bruce, vocalist, guitarist and composer (died 2014)[12]
- 15 June – Muff Winwood, record producer, songwriter, and bass player
- 17 June – Christopher Brown, composer
- 26 July – Mick Jagger, singer and actor (The Rolling Stones)
- 28 July – Richard Wright, keyboardist (Pink Floyd) (died 2008)
- 24 August – Dafydd Iwan, musician and politician[13]
- 6 September – Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)
- 30 September – Philip Moore, organist and composer
- 3 November – Bert Jansch, folk musician (died 2011)[14]
- 30 November – Leo Lyons, bassist
- 17 December – Dave Dee, singer (died 2009)[15]
Deaths
- 7 February – Clara Novello Davies, singer, mother of Ivor Novello, 81[16]
- 28 March – Ben Davies, operatic tenor, 85[17]
- 14 April – Geoffrey Shaw, church musician and composer, 63
- 25 April – William Edward Wadely, organist and composer, 89
- 3 May – Leslie Heward, conductor and composer, 45[18]
- 30 July – Benjamin Dale, composer, 58[19]
- 28 November – Arthur Catterall, violinist and conductor, 60[20]
- 16 December – William Wallace, composer, 80[21]
See also
References
- ^ Carner, Mosco (October 1945), "The Committee for the Promotion of New Music", The Musical Times, 86 (1232): 297–299, doi:10.2307/934638, JSTOR 934638
- ^ Payne, Anthony. "Society for the Promotion of New Music", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 15 June 2014. (subscription required)
- ^ Morris, John Vincent (May 2011), Battle for Music: Music and British Wartime Propaganda 1935–1945 (PDF), University of Exeter, p. 87
- ^ a b Kendall, Alan. The Chronicle of Classical Music. Thames & Hudson, 2000: p. 234
- ^ Mitchell, Donald (ed) (1991). Letters From A Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 2 1939–45. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-16058-1. p. 1030
- ^ The Guardian, Friday 12 April 2002 "Leaders of the banned" Retrieved on 2008-12-16
- ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions. Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1943. p. 1513.
- ^ Harrison, George (2002) [1980]. I, Me, Mine. Phoenix. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-7538-1734-6.
- ^ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The book of golden discs. London: Barrie & Jenkins. p. 199. ISBN 9780214204807.
- ^ "Ruth Madoc, actress who found fame as the lovelorn Yellowcoat Gladys in the hit sitcom Hi-de-Hi! – obituary". The Telegraph. 10 December 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
- ^ Current Biography Yearbook 1990. H. W. Wilson Company. 1992. p. 234.
- ^ Alan Clayson (26 October 2014). "Jack Bruce obituary". The Guardian.
- ^ Who's who in European Politics. Bowker-Saur. 1990. p. 313.
- ^ Ken Hunt (January 2015). "Jansch, Herbert [Bert] (1943–2011)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/104258. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Alan Clayson (9 January 2009). "Obituary: Dave Dee". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
- ^ The Encyclopedia Americana: The International Reference Work. Americana Corporation of Canada. 1962. p. 546.
- ^ Robert David Griffith. "Davies, Benjamin ('Ben'; 1858-1943), singer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- ^ Humphreys, Maggie (1997). Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. London Herndon, VA: Mansell. p. 160. ISBN 9780720123302.
- ^ Foreman, Lewis (2008). Benjamin Dale—Music for Viola Archived March 13, 2012, at the Wayback Machine [sleeve notes]. Dutton Epoch. Retrieved 2011-07-13.
- ^ Norris, Gerald (1981). A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland. Newton Abbot, Devon North Pomfret, Vt: David & Charles. p. 198. ISBN 9780715378458.
- ^ Barker, Donald J. "William Wallace", in Grove Music Online, 2001.
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