Edward Bairstow

BAIRSTOW (Sir) Edward Cuthbert. b. Huddersfield, 22 August 1874; d. York, 1 May 1946. His first significant musical studies were with John Farmer, a lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford. At the age of 18 he became an articled pupil of Frederick Bridge* at Westminster Abbey and, from 1893, took lessons from Walter Alcock, then an organ professor at the Royal College of Music and organist at Holy Trinity, Sloane Street. A year later he took the appointment of organist at All Saints, Norfolk Square which he held until 1899. He then moved north to become organist of Wigan Parish Church where Walter Parratt* had been organist between 1868 and 1872. Succeeding C. H. Moody, who had moved to Holy...

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