1910 in British music

Events

• 22 February – Frederick Delius's latest opera, A Village Romeo and Juliet is premièred at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with Thomas Beecham conducting.
• 10 November – Fritz Kreisler is the soloist and Edward Elgar the conductor at the première of his Violin Concerto in B Minor, in London.

Popular music

• "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am"; by Fred Murray and R. P. Weston, performed by Harry Champion
• "Macushla"; music by Dermot MacMurrough and lyrics by Josephine V. Rowe
• "When Father Papered the Parlour"; by R. P. Weston and Fred J. Barnes, performed by Billy Williams

Classical music: new works

• Rutland Boughton – Five Celtic Songs
• George Dyson - Choral Symphony
• Katharine Emily Eggar - Idyll for flute and piano
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
• *Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
• *Symphony No. 1 ("A Sea Symphony")

Opera

• Two Merry Monarchs, book by Arthur Anderson and George Levy, lyrics by Anderson and Hartley Carrick, and music by Orlando Morgan

Musical theatre

• 19 February – The Balkan Princess, by Frederick Lonsdale and Frank Curzon, with lyrics by Paul Rubens and Arthur Wimperis, and music by Paul Rubens, opens at the Prince of Wales Theatre, starring Isabel Jay and Bertram Wallis; it runs for 176 performances.

Births

• 10 February – Joyce Grenfell, actress, comedian and singer-songwriter
• 15 February – Stanley Vann, composer, conductor and choirmaster
• 10 June – Robert Still, composer of tonal music
• 15 June – Alf Pearson, singer and variety performer with his brother as half of Bob and Alf Pearson
• 17 June – Sam Costa, crooner, radio actor and disc jockey
• 22 June – Peter Pears, tenor
• 15 July – Ronald Binge, composer of light music
• 16 October – William Reed, composer
• 1 December – Alicia Markova, ballerina
• date unknown – Val Rosing, dance band singer, later an opera singer under the name Gilbert Russell

Deaths

• 3 May – Lottie Collins, singer and dancer, 44
• 10 May – Anna Laetitia Waring, poet and hymn-writer, 87