Editing Ivor Novello (section)

==Death and legacy==
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Novello died suddenly from a [[coronary thrombosis]] at the age of 58, a few hours after completing a performance of ''King's Rhapsody''.<ref name=times/> He was cremated at the [[Golders Green Crematorium]], and his ashes are buried beneath a [[lilac]] bush and marked with a plaque that reads "Ivor Novello 6th March 1951 'Till you are home once more'."<ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2. McFarland & Company (2016) {{ISBN|0786479922}}</ref> He left an estate worth £160,000<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27025051 |title=Composer Left £160,000 Estate. |newspaper=[[The Mercury (Hobart)|The Mercury]] |location=Hobart, Tas. |date=9 June 1951 |access-date=10 July 2012 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> (£{{inflation|UK|0.16|1951}}{{nbsp}}million in {{Inflation/year|UK}}).

Only a few weeks before Novello's death, Coward had written of him: "Theatre – good, bad and indifferent – is the love of his life. For him, other human endeavours are mere shadows. ... The reward of his work lies in the indisputable fact that whenever and wherever he appears the vast majority of the British public flock to see him."<ref name=tls>[[Trewin, J. C.]] "Popular Idol", ''[[The Times Literary Supplement]]'', 18 May 1951, p. 304</ref> ''The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' writes of Novello that he was "until the advent of [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]], the 20th century's most consistently successful composer of British musicals".<ref name=grove/>

The [[Ivor Novello Awards]] for songwriting, established in 1955 in Novello's memory, are awarded each year by [[The Ivors Academy]] (formerly the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA)) to British songwriters and composers as well as to an outstanding international music writer.<ref>Pegler, Martin. ''Soldiers' Songs and Slang of the Great War'', Osprey Publishing, 2014, p. 248 {{ISBN|9781427804150}}</ref> A scholarship in memory of Novello was established at the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]], and in 1952 a bronze bust of him by [[Clemence Dane]] was unveiled at Drury Lane. In [[St. Paul's, Covent Garden]], known as the ''actors' church'', a panel was installed to commemorate Novello, and in 1972, to mark the 21st anniversary of his death, a memorial stone was unveiled in [[St. Paul's Cathedral]].<ref name=dnb/>

In 1993, the centenary of Novello's birth was marked by several celebratory shows around the UK, including one at the [[Players' Theatre]] in London.<ref name=oxpop/> In 2005, the [[Novello Theatre|Strand Theatre]], above which Novello lived for many years, was renamed the Novello Theatre, with a plaque in his honour set at the entrance.<ref>[https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1922138 "Ivor Novello plaque, Aldwych"], Geograph.org, accessed 26 September 2014.</ref> On 27 June 2009, a statue of Novello was unveiled outside the [[Wales Millennium Centre]] in [[Cardiff Bay]]. Plaques detailing some of his best-known songs are fitted to the pedestal, along with a dedication to Novello.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/8121374.stm "Statue honours composer Novello"], BBC News, 27 June 2009</ref> Novello's memory is promoted by [[The Ivor Novello Appreciation Bureau]], which holds annual events around Britain, including an annual pilgrimage to [[Redroofs Theatre School|Redroofs]] each June. Redroofs was sold after Novello's death, and is now a theatre training school.<ref>[http://www.redroofs.co.uk/about.asp "About us"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110310122736/http://www.redroofs.co.uk/about.asp |date=10 March 2011}}, Redroofs Associates, accessed 16 March 2011.</ref>

Novello was portrayed in [[Robert Altman]]'s 2001 film ''[[Gosford Park]]'' by [[Jeremy Northam]], and several of his songs were used for the film's soundtrack, including "Waltz of My Heart", "And Her Mother Came Too", "I Can Give You the Starlight", "What a Duke Should Be", "Why Isn't It You?" and "The Land of Might-Have-Been".{{citation needed|date=April 2022}} [[Jeremy Irvine]] played Novello in the 2021 [[Terence Davies]] film ''[[Benediction (film)|Benediction]]'', about the life of his one-time lover, the war poet [[Siegfried Sassoon]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Chandry |first=Roshan |title=Tom Blyth on His Journey from the TV Workshop to HBO's The Gilded Age |url=https://www.leftlion.co.uk/read/2021/february/interview-with-tom-blyth-actor-nottingham-hbo-the-gilded-age/ |website=[[Left Lion]] |date=23 February 2021}}</ref>