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The following is a list of notable organists from the past and present who perform organ literature ... Philip Knapton (1788–1833) Gerald Knight (1908–1979)
In retirement Moore was appointed Organist Emeritus of York Minister and served for some time as organist of his local church, St Michael's, Barton-le-Street. [1] He has also been a visiting artist and associate organist at Christ Church, Greenwich , in Connecticut , USA, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] having composed several pieces for the church's choirs. [ 6 ]
A Directory of Composers for Organ by Dr. John Henderson, Hon. Librarian to the Royal School of Church Music, 2005, 3rd edition. ISBN 0-9528050-2-2; Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Venetian Instrumental Music, from Gabrieli to Vivaldi. New York, Dover Publications, 1994. ISBN 0-486-28151-5; Christopher S. Anderson (Ed.), Twentieth-Century Organ Music.
He was dean of the American Guild of Organist' New Orleans Chapter [2] and organized a Duruflé festival in New Orleans. He taught at the Sewanee Music Center and at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary [7] From 1975. [9] through 1979, he was organist and choirmaster at St Philip's Episcopal Cathedral in Atlanta.
He seems to have been one of the pioneers of the British organ recital: prior to his time, entertainment was not considered appropriate for a church building. Despite a reputation as the best improviser on the organ in England, he never succeeded in obtaining an organist's post though he applied to the Foundling Hospital both in 1798 and 1813 ...
Sir Ivor Algernon Atkins (29 November 1869 – 26 November 1953) was the choirmaster and organist at Worcester Cathedral from 1897 to 1950, and a friend of and collaborator with Edward Elgar. He is remembered for editing Allegri's Miserere with the famous top-C part for the treble .
He was born John Clarke at Gloucester, and educated at Oxford under Dr Philip Hayes.. In 1789 he was appointed organist of the parish church at Ludlow.Four years later he took the degree of Mus. Bac. at Cambridge, [1] and in 1795 he was chosen as organist of Armagh cathedral, whence he removed in the same year to Dublin, with the appointments of organist and master of the children at St ...
Born in 1961 in Sydney and later resident in Melbourne, Stove graduated from Sydney University in 1985. He is the author of four books: Prince of Music—a biography of the composer Palestrina; The Unsleeping Eye—a brief history of secret police from the sixteenth to the twentieth century; A Student's Guide to Music History—a summary history of classical music from the Middle Ages to the ...