This is a summary of1921 in music in theUnited Kingdom.

• January – SirCharles Villiers Stanford gives a public lecture entitled "Some Recent Tendencies in Composition", criticising current musical trends.^[1]
• 5 March – Charles Villiers Stanford makes his last public appearance when he conducts his latest work, the cantataAt the Abbey Gate.^[2]The Observer thinks it "quite appealing even though one feels it to be more facile than powerful."^[3]
• 14 June – First performance of the orchestral version ofVaughan Williams'sThe Lark Ascending conducted byAdrian Boult withMarie Hall asviolin soloist in a concert at theQueen's Hall in London.
• June – Adrian Boult conducts an experimentalOpera Intime week at theAeolian Hall (London).^[4]
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  • A new production ofThe Tempest at theAldwych Theatre, directed byViola Tree, adds new incidental music byArthur Bliss to that byThomas Arne andArthur Sullivan.^[5]
  • TheSavoy Havana Band is formed as a resident dance band at theSavoy Hotel, London, by American saxophonist Bert Ralton.

• "And Her Mother Came Too": words byDion Titheradge, music byIvor Novello^[6]
• "Dancing Time": words byGeorge Grossmith, Jr., music byJerome Kern^[7]
• "Shimmy With Me": words byP. G. Wodehouse, music byJerome Kern, from the musicalThe Cabaret Girl^[7]

• Kenneth J. Alford –The Mad Major
• Arnold Bax –Mater ora Filium
• Eric Coates –Moresque
• John Foulds –A World Requiem (1919–21; premiered 1923)^[8]
• Albert Ketèlbey
  • Bells Across the Meadows
  • In a Persian Market
• John Ireland –Two Pieces for Piano
• Cyril Rootham –Suite in three movements for flute and piano

• Gustav Holst –Savitri

• 17 January –The League of Notions Londonrevue opens at theOxford Theatre.
• 5 October –The Golden Moth (Music:Ivor Novello) opens at theAdelphi Theatre, starringBobbie Comber andThorpe Bates.

• Porte, J. F.Sir Edward Elgar. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Turner & Co. Ltd.

• 5 February – SirJohn Pritchard, conductor (died 1989)
• 2 March –Robert Simpson, musicologist and composer (died 1997)
• 21 March –Antony Hopkins, composer and music writer (died 2014)
• 8 April –Alfie Bass, actor (Tevye in West End production ofFiddler on the Roof) (died 1987)^[9]
• 23 May –Humphrey Lyttelton, English jazz musician (died 2008)
• 12 July –Hilary Corke, writer and composer (died 2001)
• 13 August –Mary Lee, Scottish singer
• 8 September – SirHarry Secombe, singer and comedian (died 2001)^[10]
• 21 September –Jimmy Young, singer and radio broadcaster (died 2016)^[11]
• 2 October –Robert Bruce Montgomery, composer (died 1978)
• 21 October – SirMalcolm Arnold, composer (died 2006)^[12]

• 8 February –George Formby Sr, singer and comedian, 45 (tuberculosis)^[13]
• 25 February – John Thomas of Llanwrtyd, composer, 81^[14]
• 14 March –Gustave Barnes, violinist, painter and sculptor, 43^[15]
• 29 November –Ivan Caryll, Belgian-born composer of operettas in English, 60^[16]

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