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Florence Nightingale and Dr Edward Bouverie Pusey were among the congregation and Dr Samuel Sebastian Wesley played the organ. The east end was altered between 1870 and 1880. [1] The parish church became Leeds Minster in a ceremony on Sunday 2 September 2012, on the 171st anniversary of the consecration of the building.
Simon Lindley (born 10 October 1948) is an English organist, choirmaster, conductor and composer.He was Leeds City Organist from 1976 to 2017 (named City Organist Emeritus in Summer 2017) and is Organist Emeritus of Leeds Minster, having been organist and Master of the Music Leeds Minster from 1975 until his retirement in 2016.
The Choir of Leeds Minster is the choir of Leeds Minster, Leeds, England, which became a Minster in September 2012. [1] The choir was founded by vicar, Richard Fawcett probably as early as 1815, and was certainly in existence by 1818 (from which year there is accounting evidence for choristers' laundry).
Founded in summer 1977, by Harry Fearnley, then senior alto Lay Clerk in the Choir of Leeds Minster, SPS has been directed since its formation by organist and conductor Dr Simon Lindley, FRCO, FRSCM, the Minster's Master of the Music from 1975 to 2016 and now Minster Organist Emeritus – whose colleagues at the Minster have contributed to the ...
From Earth to Heaven (1999, commissioned by the choir of Leeds Minster for the dedication of the Sally-Scott window) [11] Lo! God is here! (1997, for John Scott and the choir of St Paul's Cathedral) Preces and Responses (1995, for Guildford Cathedral) Lo! That is a marvellous change (1991, for men's voices) O Lord, support us (1991) In ...
Wordsworth and Maskell was a British firm of church organ makers, established in 1866 in Leeds, West Yorkshire. [1] [2] It produced around sixty organs for churches in Lancashire, around 23 for churches in Lincolnshire, over 50 in Leeds (along with 15 rebuilds) and around 30 in the rest of Yorkshire, along with others for countries of the British Empire. [2]
He set it in C major for four-part choir and organ. [3] It was written as a companion piece to his earlier 1934 Te Deum in C, [4] and was published in 1961 by Chester Music. [1] Although commissioned for St George's Chapel, Windsor, the Jubilate was first performed in Leeds Parish Church (subsequently Leeds Minster) in 1961.
An organ by Binns in St Aidan's Church, Leeds, 1896 James Jepson Binns (c. 1855–11 March 1928) [ 1 ] was a pipe organ builder based in Leeds , West Yorkshire , England . [ 2 ]