Alec Wyton

WYTON, Alec (Alexander Francis). b. London, 3 August 1921; d. Danbury, Connecticut, 18 March 2007. After his parents separated, he received his early encouragement from an aunt in Northampton who suggested he learned the piano and organ. When war broke out in 1939, he joined the Royal Corps of Signals but was discharged early owing to a duodenal ulcer. He then went on to the Royal Academy of Music and, in 1943, he became organ scholar at Exeter College, Oxford (BA 1945) where he studied history and music as well as the organ with G. D. Cunningham (1878-1948), the well-known concert organist. After the war he resumed his studies at Oxford (MA 1949) and was appointed organist at St Matthew’s,...