2021 anniversary dates associated with Music at the University of Edinburgh

Listed here are a number of anniversary years ending in 01, which are closely associated with the history of Music at the University of Edinburgh and the Reid Concerts. 
I have listed here 20 significant events, by no means a comprehensive list but I thought it was an interesting selection that was worthy of mention.  
From 1839 to 2012, ten men served as [Reid] Professors of Music and five of them feature in this anniversary list.

2021/22 is also the 300th anniversary of the birth of General John Reid.

2021 Anniversaries

  1.  180^th First Annual College [Reid] Concert presented 12 February 1841
  2.  180^th First Professor of Music John Thomson died 1841
  3.  180^th Second Professor of Music Henry Rowley Bishop appointed 1841
  4.  130^th Fifth Professor of Music Herbert Stanley Oakeley retired 1891
  5.  130^th Sixth Professor & First Reid Professor of Music Frederick Maternus Niecks appointed 1891
  6.  130^th Adolf Busch born 1891 (solo violinist with the Reid Orchestra and close friend of Donald Tovey, awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Music in 1934)
  7.  130^th Arthur Bliss born 1891 (composer and conductor of the Reid Orchestra in 1945)
  8.  130^th Ruth Waddell born 1891 (violoncellist, member of the Reid Orchestra and co-founder of the Waddell School of Music)
  9.  100^th Reid Concerts held for the first time in the Usher Hall, Lothian Road (Season 5, 1921)
10.  100^th Joan Dickson born 1921 (violoncellist, soloist and member of the Reid Orchestra)
11.  100^th Dennis Brain born 1921 (French horn player and soloist with Reid Orchestra)
12.  100^th Gervase Elwes died 1921 (tenor and soloist with the Reid Orchestra in 1917)
13.    90^th John Petrie Dunn died 1931 (pianist, student and lecturer in the Faculty of Music)
14.    80^th 50th Eighth Professor and Third Reid Professor of Music Sidney Newman appointed 1941
15.    80^th Edward Harper born 1941 (composer, performer, conductor & member of the Faculty of Music)
16.    70^th Peter Nelson born 1951 (composer, performer and professor in the Faculty of Music)
17.    60^th Alasdair Nicolson born 1961 (composer and student, Faculty of Music)
18.    50^th Michael Tilmouth born 1930, first Tovey Professor at the Faculty of Music appointed 1971
19.    50^th Eighth Professor and Third Reid Professor of Music Sidney Newman died 1971
20.    20^th Iannis Xenakis died 2001 (awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Music in 1989)

Reid Orchestra, 5^th Season, first Reid concert in the Usher Hall, 5 February 1921
  first performance in Edinburgh of Prelude to ‘La Princesse Lointaine’ op. 4 by Tcherepnine

Reid Orchestra, 5^th Season, 12 February 1921
  first performance in Edinburgh of extracts from ‘Bride of Dionysus’ an opera by Donald Tovey

Reid Orchestra, 5^th Season, 5 March 1921
  first performance in Edinburgh of ‘Sappho’, songs for contralto with orchestra by Granville Bantock

Due to Covid-19 restrictions the Annual Reid Concert was not presented in 2021.

Further information about many of the individuals and works mentioned here can be found on the Reid Concerts Database.

• Reid Professors at the University of Edinburgh
• Music at the University of Edinburgh: a short history