Music in Edwardian London

The gateway to data relating to London concert life 1893 to 1914.

The site forms a supplement to Simon McVeigh’s Music in Edwardian London (Boydell Press, 2024), a study of a rich and exciting period in British musical history. It was a time of experiment in every branch of concert and theatre music, attracting new audiences to the thrilling sounds of a new century.

While opera and musical comedy have been thoroughly documented (as, for example, in J.P. Wearing’s monumental The London Stage), London concert life has been much less well served. There are online calendars and printed listings, but no single point of entry. This website has been designed to rectify this omission.

The aim is to provide access to programmes of the main orchestral, choral and chamber concert series from 1893 to 1914, through a single searchable spreadsheet.