1909 in British music

This is a summary of 1909 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events

22 September - 11-year-old pianist Marie Novello makes her Proms début, playing the Piano Concerto no. 1 in E-flat by Franz Liszt.
date unknown - Ada Jones records her most popular song, "The Yama Yama Man", for the Victor Light Opera Company.

Popular music

"Boiled Beef and Carrots" by Charles Collins and Fred Murray
"Master Kilby"; traditional folk song collected by Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles
"The King's Way" by Edward Elgar and Caroline Alice Elgar

New recordings

Mark Sheridan - "I Do Like To be Beside the Seaside"

Classical music: new works

Arnold Bax – In the Faery Hills
Gustav Holst – First Suite in E-flat for Military Band
John Blackwood McEwen – A Solway Symphony
Ralph Vaughan Williams – ''The Wasps''

Opera

Fallen Fairies by W. S. Gilbert and Edward German
The Mountaineers, by Guy Eden and Reginald Somerville

Musical theatre

29 April – The Arcadians, with book by Mark Ambient and Alexander M. Thompson, lyrics by Arthur Wimperis, and music by Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot, opens at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, where it runs for 809 performances.

Births

1 May – George Melachrino, conductor, singer and composer
11 May – Herbert Murrill, organist and composer
12 June – Mansel Thomas, composer and conductor
13 August – Brian Lawrance, Australian-born bandleader
25 August – Brian Easdale, composer
25 August – Arwel Hughes, composer

Deaths

4 February – James Lynam Molloy, poet, songwriter and composer, 71
7 June – P. W. Halton, conductor, 68