ELVEY
, SI$ See also:GEORGE See also:JOB (1816-1893), See also:English organist and composer, was See also:born at See also:Canterbury on the 27th of See also:March 1816
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He was a chorister at Canterbury See also:cathedral under Highmore Skeats, the organist
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Subsequently he became a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of his See also:elder See also:brother, See also:Stephen, and then studied at the Royal See also:Academy of See also:Music under See also:Cipriani See also:Potter and Dr See also:Crotch
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In 1834 he gained the See also:Gresham See also:prize See also:medal for his See also:anthem, " See also:Bow down thine See also:ear," and in 1835 was appointed organist of St George's See also:chapel, See also:Windsor, a See also:post he filled for 47 years, retiring in 1882
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He took the degree of See also:Mus
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B. at See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford in 1838, and in 184o that of Mus.D
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Anthems of his were commissioned for the Three Choirs Festivals of 1853 and 1857, and in 1871 he received the See also:honour of See also:knighthood
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He died at Windlesham in See also:Surrey on the 9th of See also:December 1893
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His See also:works, which are nearly all for the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, include two oratorios, a See also:great number of anthems and services, and some pieces for the See also:organ
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A memoir of him, by his widow, was published in 1894
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