Edward Heath

Edward Heath

male, deceased (2005)
World War II, Anglican, death by pneumonia, British Military, Englishclassicalorganist, British…English
Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, MBE (9 July 1916 - 17 July 2005) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the...
Orlando Gibbons

Orlando Gibbons

male, deceased (1625)
Madrigal composer, Englishclassicalorganist, apoplexy, Renaissance composer, baptism, composer…Organist, English
Orlando Gibbons (baptised December 25 1583 - June 5 1625) was an English composer and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods. He was...
Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell

male, deceased (1695)
Englishclassicalorganist, buried at Westminster Abbey, Old Westminsters, English, from WestmInster, baroque music
Henry Purcell (September 10 (?),, 1659–November 21, 1695), a Baroque composer, is generally considered to be one of England's greatest composers. He...
William Croft

William Croft

male, deceased (1727)
Englishclassicalorganist, Ettington, Musica Sacra, Burial Service, St. Anne's Church, Soho, Chapel Royal…English, Organist
William Croft (December 30 (baptism), 1678 - August 14, 1727) was an English composer and organist. Croft was born at the Manor House, Nether...

David Sanger

male, 62 years old
Academic of the Royal Academy of Music, composer, Englishclassicalorganist, pipe organ, concert, concert organist…English, Classical organist, Organist
David Sanger (b. 1947) is an internationally acclaimed concert organist and the UK's most influential teacher of the pipe organ.
John Blow

John Blow

male, deceased (1708)
Cathedral organist, Englishclassicalorganist, buried at Westminster Abbey, From nottinghamshire, venus and adonis, Chapel Royal…Organist, English
John Blow (1649 - October 1, 1708) was an English composer and organist. His pupils included William Croft and Henry Purcell. Blow was probably...
Andrew Davis

Andrew Davis

male, 65 years old
The Mask of Time, Englishclassicalorganist, Alumni of the Royal College of Music, Order of the British Empire, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, King's College, Cambridge…English
Sir Andrew Frank Davis CBE (born 2 February 1944) is a British conductor. Davis was born in Ashridge in Hertfordshire and studied at the Royal...

John Reading

male, deceased (1692)
Cathedral organist, Englishclassicalorganist, Winchester Cathedral, Organist, winchester, English…composer and organist
John Reading was an English composer and organist, and father of John Reading (c. 1685 – 1764) who is remembered as an important music copyist. We...

John Reading

male, deceased (1764)
Cathedral organist, Englishclassicalorganist, English, Organist, transcription, arranger…composer, organist and copyist
John Reading was an English composer, organist and copyist (his name, like the town, is pronounced “Redding” – a spelling variant of his name which...
Walford Walford Davies

Walford Walford Davies

male, deceased (1941)
Cathedral organist, Englishclassicalorganist, Alumni of the Royal College of Music, English, Adelaide University, Classical composer…Organist
Sir Henry Walford Davies, KCVO, OBE, (September 6, 1869 - March 11, 1941) was a British composer, who held the title Master of the King's Music...