Edward Elgar02 June 1857
Composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams12 October 1872
Composer
Arthur Sullivan13 May 1842
Composer
William Herschel15 November 1738
Astronomer, Composer
Frederick Delius29 January 1862
Composer
Gustavus Theodore von Holst21 September 1874
Composer
John Ella19 December 1802
Violinist
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor15 August 1875
Composer, Pianist, Conductor
Ivor Novello15 January 1893
Actor, Playwright, Composer, Writer, Screenwriter,
Gracie Fields09 January 1898
Actor, Comedian, Singer
Houston Stewart Chamberlain09 September 1855
Racial theorist, Writer, Politician, Philosopher,
Nikolai Medtner05 January 1880
Composer, Pianist, University teacher
Myra Hess25 February 1890
Pianist
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji14 August 1892
Pianist, Composer, Music critic, Writer
Hubert Parry27 February 1848
Composer
Ethel Smyth22 April 1858
Composer
Thomas Beecham29 April 1879
Conductor
Harold Bauer28 April 1873
Pianist
Arnold Bax08 November 1883
Composer
Malcolm Sargent29 April 1895
Music conductor
Henry Wood03 March 1869
Conductor
George Butterworth12 July 1885
Composer, Musicologist
Herbert Howells17 October 1892
Composer
Ivor Gurney28 August 1890
Poet, Composer, Author, Writer
Frank Bridge26 February 1879
Composer, Conductor, Music educator
Arthur Bliss02 August 1891
Composer
Cecil Sharp22 November 1859
Musician
William Sterndale Bennett13 April 1816
Composer
Charles Burney07 April 1726
Musical Composer
Roger Quilter01 November 1877
Composer
Havergal Brian29 January 1876
Composer
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George Grossmith09 December 1847
Comedian
Michael Maybrick31 January 1841
Composer
Eugene Aynsley Goossens26 May 1893
Conductor
Johann Baptist Cramer24 February 1771
Pianist
Samuel Wesley24 February 1766
Organist
Granville Bantock07 August 1868
Composer
Samuel Sebastian Wesley14 August 1810
Organist
Charles Dibdin04 March 1745
Composer
John Stainer06 June 1840
Composer
Ernest John Moeran31 December 1894
Composer
Egon Wellesz21 October 1885
Composer
Donald Tovey17 July 1875
Musicologist
Frederick Lonsdale05 February 1881
Playwright
Edward German17 February 1862
Musician
Charlie Gillett20 February 1942
Radio broadcaster
John Curwen14 November 1816
British educator
Theodore Hook22 September 1788
Man of Letters
Arnold Dolmetsch24 February 1858
Musician
Frederic Austin30 March 1872
Baritone singer
Rutland Boughton23 January 1878
Composer
Tobias Matthay19 February 1858
Pianist
Robert Hope-Jones09 February 1859
Musician
Thomas Dunhill01 February 1877
Composer
Henry Willis27 April 1821
Organ maker
Joseph Holbrooke05 July 1878
Composer
George Henschel18 February 1850
Musician
Frederic Hymen Cowen29 January 1852
Pianist
Vincent Novello06 September 1781
Composer
Walter Parratt10 February 1841
Composer
Robert Heller1826 AD
Magician
John Ireland13 August 1879
composer, music educator, film score composer
John Liptrot Hatton12 October 1809
Composer
Jonathan Battishill30 April 1738
Composer
John Marsh31 May 1752
British composer
Sir John Barbirolli02 December 1899
Musician
Hugh Allen23 December 1869
Musician
Cyril Meir Scott27 September 1879
Composer
Sir Henry Rowley Bishop18 November 1786
Composer
Sir Adrian Cedric Boult08 April 1889
Conductor
Richard D'Oyly Carte03 May 1844
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