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Composers
This is a list of many of the repertoire composers whose biographies are provided as part of the music list; the biographies can be accessed by clicking on the composer's name. The list grows sporadically, but articles from any contributors regarding a currently unlisted composer will be considered for inclusion (credit will be duly attributed). Contributions can be submitted to webmaster@cathedralchoir.org.uk.
Composer Born Died
Alcock, John London, 11 April, 1715 Lichfield, 23 February, 1806
Allegri, Gregorio Rome, 1582 Rome, 7 February, 1652
Andrews, Herbert Comber, County Down, 1904 Oxford, 1965
Archer, Malcom 1952
Ashfield, Robert Chipstead, Surrey, 1911
Attwood, Thomas London, baptised 23 November, 1756 London, 24 March, 1838
Ayleward, Richard Winchester, 1626 Norwich, 15 October, 1669
Batten, Adrian Salisbury, baptised 1 March, 1591 London, 1637
Bainton, Edgar (Leslie) London, 14 February, 1880 Sydney, 8 December, 1956
Bairstow, Sir Edward C(uthbert) Huddersfield, 22 August, 1874 York, 1 May, 1946
Begbie, Mark Cambridge, 28 June, 1986
Biebl, Franz Xaver Amberg, 1 September, 1906 2 October, 2001
Binchois, Gilles de Bins dit Mons?, c1400 Soignies, 20 September, 1460
Blair, Hugh 1864 1932
Blow, John Newark, baptised 23 February, 1649 Westminster, 1 October, 1708
Boyle, Malcolm C Windsor, 1902 1976
Brewer, Sir (Alfred) Herbert Gloucester, 21 June, 1865 Gloucester, 1 March, 1928
Britten, (Edward) Benjamin Lowestoft, 22 November, 1913 Aldeburgh, 4 December, 1976
Bruckner, (Joseph) Anton Ansfelden, 4 September, 1824 Vienna, 11 October, 1896
Bullock, Ernest Wigan, 15 September, 1890 Aylesbury, 1979
Byrd, William ?Lincoln, 1543 Stondon Massey, 4 July, 1623
Clucas, Humphrey 1941
Crotch, William Norwich, 5 July, 1775 Taunton, 29 December, 1847
Darke, Harold (Edwin) London, 29 October, 1888 Cambridge, 28 November, 1976
Dyson, Sir George Halifax, 28 May, 1883 Winchester, 28 September, 1964
East, Michael c1580 Lichfield, 1648
Farrant, Richard c1525-1530 London, 30 November, 1580
Gasper, Luke 1981
Gawthrop, Daniel E Fort Wayne, Indiana, 21 October, 1949
Gibbons, Orlando Oxford, 1583 Canterbury, 5 June, 1625
Goldschmidt, Otto (Moritz David) Hamburg, 21 August, 1829 London, 24 February, 1907
Goss, John Fareham, 27 December, 1800 London, 10 May, 1880
Gray, Alan York, 23 December, 1855 Cambridge, 27 September, 1935
Harris, Sir William Henry London, 28 March, 1883 Petersfield, 6 September, 1973
Hadley, Patrick Arthur Sheldon Cambridge, 5 March, 1899 King's Lynn, 17 December, 1973
Harvey, Jonathan Dean Sutton Coldfield, 1939
Harwood, Basil Woodhouse, Olveston, Gloucestershire, 11 April, 1859 London, 3 April, 1949
Handl [Gallus], Jacob [Jacobus] probably Ribnica, 15 April - 31 July, 1550 Prague, 18 July, 1591
Hassler, Hans Leo Nuremberg, baptised 26 October, 1564 Frankfurt, 8 June, 1612
Holmes, John Salisbury, 30 January, 1629
Howells, Herbert Norman Lydney, 17 October, 1892 Oxford, 23 February, 1983
Humfrey, Pelham London, 1647 Windsor, 14 July, 1674
Ireland, John (Nicholson) Bowdon, 13 August, 1879 Rock Mill, 12 June, 1962
Ives, Charles (Edward) Danbury, 20 October, 1874 New York, 19 May, 1954
Jackson, Francis Alan Malton, 2 October, 1917
Lassus [Lasso], Orlande [Roland] de [Orlando di] Mons, 1530 or 1532 Munich, 14 June, 1594
Leighton, Kenneth Wakefield, 2 October, 1929 Edinburgh, 1988
Lloyd, Richard Stockport, 1933
Loosemore, Henry ?Bishops Nympton, Devon, c1605 1670
Lumsden, Andrew Michael 10 November, 1962
McKie, Sir William Melbourne, Australia, 1901 Ottowa, Canada, 1984
Morley, Thomas Norwich, 1557/8 London, early October, 1602
Moeran, E(rnest) J(ohn) Heston, 31 December, 1894 Kenmare, 1 December, 1950
Moore, Philip London, 30 September, 1943
Mudd, Thomas ?Durham, buried 2 August, 1667
Murrill, Herbert (Henry John) London, 11 May, 1909 London, 25 July, 1952
Naylor, Edward Woodall Scarborough, 1867 Cambridge, 7 May, 1934
Nicholson, Sir Sydney (Hugo) London, 9 February, 1875 Ashford, Kent, 30 May, 1947
Noble, (Thomas) Tertius Bath, 5 May, 1867 Rockport, Mass., 4 May, 1953
Ord, Bernhard (known as Boris) Clifton, Bristol, 9 July, 1897 Cambridge, 1961
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da ?Palestrina, ?3 February, 1525 Rome, 2 February, 1594
Parry, Sir (Charles) Hubert (Hastings) Bournemouth, 27 February, 1848 Rustington, 7 October, 1918
Parsons, Robert Exeter, c1530 Newark, 25 January, 1570
Philips, Peter ?London, 1560/1 Brussels, 1628
Poulenc, Francis (Jean Marcel) Paris, 7 January, 1899 Paris, 30 January, 1963
Purcell, Daniel London, c1660 London, buried 26 November, 1717
Purcell, Henry London, 1659 Westminster, 21 November, 1695
Reading, John Lincoln, c1645 Winchester, 1692
Rheinberger, Joseph (Gabriel) Vaduz, 17 March, 1839 Munich, 25 November, 1901
Rose, Bernard (William George) Little Hallingbury, Hertfordshire, 1916 1996
Rutter, John London, 1945
Scriven, Philip Somerset, 1970
Sharpe, Robert Lincoln, 14 November, 1971
Shephard, Richard 1949
Sheppard, John c1515 1559/60
Spicer, Paul
Stainer, Sir John London, 6 June, 1840 Verona, 31 March, 1901
Stanford, Sir Charles Villiers Dublin, 30 September, 1852 London, 29 March, 1924
Sumsion, Herbert (Whitton) Gloucester, 19 January, 1899 Frampton-on-Severn, 1995
Tallis, Thomas c1505 Greenwich, 23 November, 1585
Tomkins, Thomas St David's, 1572 Martin Hussingtree, buried 9 June, 1656
Vann, Stanley Leicester, 1910
Vaughan Williams, Ralph Down Ampney, 12 October, 1872 London, 26 August, 1958
Victoria, Tomas Luis de Avila, 1548 Madrid, 20 August, 1611
Walker, Ernest Bombay, 1870 Oxford, 1949
Walmisley, Thomas London, 21 January, 1814 Hastings, 17 January, 1856
Walton, Sir William (Turner) Oldham, 29 March, 1902 Ischia, 8 March, 1983
Warlock [Heseltine], Peter [Philip (Arnold)] London, 30 October, 1894 London, 17 December, 1930
Watson, Sydney Manchester, 1903
Weelkes, Thomas ?Elsted, baptised 25 October, 1576 London, buried 1 December, 1623
Whitlock, Percy Chatham, Kent, 1 June, 1903 Bournemouth, 1 May, 1946
Willcocks, Sir David (Valentine) Newquay, 30 December, 1919
Wise, Michael ?Salisbury, c1647 Salisbury, 24 August, 1687
Wood, Charles Armagh, 15 June, 1866 Cambridge, 12 July, 1926