John Stainer
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Sir John Stainer was an English composer and organist whose music, though seldom performed today, was very popular during his lifetime. His work as choir trainer and organist set standards for Anglica
Sir John Stainer
St Michael's College, Tenbury
Interior of Magdalen College Chapel
St Paul's Cathedral at about the time Stainer was organist
Frederick Bridge
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Sir John Frederick Bridge was an English organist, composer, teacher and writer.
John Stainer
…wrote in his diary "Stainer played the last 3 movements of the Sonata in B-flat (Mendelssohn) afterwards most gloriously". He examined William Pole and Frederick Bridge and became involved in organ and music tuition and wider musical activities. He had considerable influence on sacred music in Oxford, and his reputation…
Bridge in 1897
Bridge aged nine
Bridge's house in Little Cloisters, Westminster Abbey
"Westminster Bridge" by "Spy", 1904