1933 in British music

Events

• December – Edward Elgar, knowing he is suffering from cancer and does not have time to complete his Third Symphony, tells William Henry Reed: ''"Don't let them tinker with it, Billy – burn it!"''

Popular music

• "My Lucky Day" and "Happy Ending" by Harry Parr-Davies, performed by Gracie Fields.

Classical music: new works

• Arnold Bax – Symphonic Scherzo
• Arthur Bliss – Viola Sonata
• Benjamin Britten – A Boy Was Born
• Rebecca Clarke – The Tiger
• Eric Coates – London Suite.
• Gustav Holst
• *Brook Green Suite
• *Lyric Movement
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – ''A London Symphony''

Film and incidental music

• Bretton Byrd – Friday the Thirteenth
• Colin Wark
• *Song of the Plough
• *''Doss House''

Musical theatre

• 22 November – That's a Pretty Thing opens at Daly's Theatre and runs for 103 performances.

Musical films

• Facing the Music, directed by Harry Hughes, starring Stanley Lupino, José Collins and Nancy Brown
• The Good Companions, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews and Edmund Gwenn
• Happy, directed by Frederic Zelnik, starring Stanley Lupino, Dorothy Hyson, Laddie Cliff and Will Fyffe.
• That's a Good Girl, starring Jack Buchanan, Elsie Randolph|

Births

• 20 January – Gerry Monroe, singer
• 7 February – Stuart Burrows, operatic tenor
• 14 February – James Simmons, poet, literary critic and songwriter
• 22 February – Katharine, Duchess of Kent, patron of music
• 1 March – Gerry Bron, record producer and manager
• 6 March – Dolly Collins, folk musician, arranger and composer
• 14 April – Shani Wallis, actress and singer
• 21 April – Ian Carr, jazz musician, composer, writer, and educator
• 22 May – Don Estelle, actor and singer
• 30 May – Michael Garrick, jazz pianist and composer
• 10 June — Ian Campbell, folk singer
• 15 July – Julian Bream, guitarist and lutenist
• 23 July – Bernard Roberts, pianist
• 29 July – Anne Rogers, actress, singer and dancer
• 15 August – Rita Hunter, operatic soprano
• 21 August – Dame Janet Baker, operatic mezzo-soprano
• 23 August – Ian Fraser, Emmy-nominated composer, conductor, arranger and music director
• 10 October – Daniel Massey, star of musical theatre
• 21 October – Georgia Brown, actress and singer
• 3 November – John Barry, film composer
• 23 November – John Sanders, organist, conductor and composer
• 10 December – Don Charles, singer and record producer
• 30 December – Andy Stewart, singer

Deaths

• 3 March – Robert Radford, bass singer, 58
• 15 April – Ernest Bucalossi, British-Italian light music composer and arranger, 73
• 26 April – Francesco Berger, pianist and composer, 98
• 10 September – Adrian Ross, English lyricist, 73