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Sir John Stainer | Musical Moments with Philip Brunelle

February 4, 2021

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In this Musical Moment, VocalEssence artistic director and founder Philip Brunelle shares insider information and beautiful music by the composer Sir John Stainer. 

John Stainer

1840-1901

Sir John Stainer was an English organist, church composer, and a pioneering early musicologist. As a boy, Stainer sang in the choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral and was appointed organist at the newly opened St. Michael’s College, Tenbury, at age 16. Named organist at St. Paul’s in 1872, Stainer served in that prestigious position until he resigned in 1888. He was a founder of the (later Royal) Musical Association in 1874 and taught at the National Training School for Music in 1876. Knighted in 1888, Stainer was professor of music at the University of Oxford from 1889 until his death. His Romantic church music is now mainly performed in England, although his best-known oratorio, The Crucifixion, is also performed in other English-speaking countries. He wrote songs as well as cantatas, services, anthems, and other music for the church service. Stainer’s most lasting contribution is his compilation of Early Bodleian Music, with musical examples from the 12th to the 16th century, as well as his “Christmas Carols, New and Old.” Both publications were excellent models for younger scholars and helped open the way to the study of Medieval and Renaissance music, which during Stainer’s time was almost unknown.

Suggested choral pieces:

  1. God So Loved the World, from “The Crucifixion” (Novello NOV400588) 
  2. Awake, Awake, Put on Thy Strength, O Zion (Novello NOV280056) 
  3. I Saw the Lord (Novello NOV291852)
Posted in: Musical Moments
Tags: British Composers • Composers of the 17th 18th and 19th Centuries

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