This is a summary of 1921 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
Popular music
Classical music: new works
Opera
Musical theatre
Publications
- Porte, J. F. Sir Edward Elgar. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Turner & Co. Ltd.
Births
- 5 February â Sir John Pritchard, conductor (died 1989)
- 2 March â Robert Simpson, musicologist and composer (died 1997)
- 21 March â Antony Hopkins, composer and music writer (died 2014)
- 8 April â Alfie Bass, actor (Tevye in West End production of Fiddler on the Roof) (died 1987)
- 23 May â Humphrey Lyttelton, English jazz musician (died 2008)
- 12 July â Hilary Corke, writer and composer (died 2001)
- 13 August â Mary Lee, Scottish singer
- 8 September â Sir Harry Secombe, singer and comedian (died 2001)
- 21 September â Jimmy Young, singer and radio broadcaster (died 2016)
- 2 October â Robert Bruce Montgomery, composer (died 1978)
- 21 October â Sir Malcolm Arnold, composer (died 2006)
Deaths
See also
References