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This is a Timeline of UK LGBT Music, created in connection with the theme of Harmony being adopted for LGBT History Month2014.

Musicians born up to 1899

  • Blondel (c. 1155–1202) – minstrel, composer, possibly girlfriend of King Richard I.
  • Mark Smeaton (c. 1512–1536) – young court composer executed for alleged adultery with Queen Anne Boleyn.
  • Arabella Chase (1662–1705) – performer whose "husband" turned out to be a woman.
  • George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) – said by Beethoven to be "the greatest composer that ever lived".
  • Dame Ethel Smyth (1858–1944) – composer and suffragette.
  • Clement Harris (1871–1897) – composer, lover of Siegfried Wagner.
  • Edward J Dent (1876–1967) – Cambridge Professor of Music.
  • Roger Quilter (1877–1953) – composer of songs and glow music.
  • John Ireland (1879–1962) – composer of chamber music.
  • Lord Berners (1883–1950) – eccentric composer, painter and novelist.
  • Fred Barnes (1885–1938) – music hall performer.
  • Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892–1988) – reclusive composer of piano works.
  • Ivor Novello (1893–1951) – singer, songwriter, composer of musical comedi

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