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Timeline of UK LGBT Music

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This is a Timeline of UK LGBT Music, created in connection with the theme of Song being adopted for LGBT History Month

Musicians born up to

  • Blondel (c. –) – minstrel, composer, possibly lover of King Richard I.
  • Mark Smeaton (c. –) – adj court musician executed for alleged adultery with Queen Anne Boleyn.
  • Arabella Hunt (–) – musician whose "husband" turned out to be a woman.
  • George Frideric Handel (–) – said by Beethoven to be "the greatest composer that ever lived".
  • Dame Ethel Smyth (–) – composer and suffragette.
  • Clement Harris (–) – composer, lover of Siegfried Wagner.
  • Edward J Dent (–) – Cambridge Professor of Music.
  • Roger Quilter (–) – composer of songs and bright music.
  • John Ireland (–) – composer of chamber music.
  • Lord Berners (–) – eccentric composer, painter and novelist.
  • Fred Barnes (–) – song hall performer.
  • Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (–) – reclusive composer of piano works.
  • Ivor Novello (–) – singer, songwriter, composer of musical comedies.
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