Ivor Atkins, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ivor Atkins

British musician

Date of Birth: 29-Nov-1869

Place of Birth: Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 26-Nov-1953

Profession: composer, conductor, organist

Nationality: Wales, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Ivor Atkins

  • Sir Ivor Algernon Atkins (29 November 1869 – 26 November 1953) was the choirmaster and organist at Worcester Cathedral from 1897 to 1950.
  • He is well known for editing Allegri's Miserere with the famous top-C part for the treble.
  • He is also well known for "The Three Kings", an arrangement of a song by Peter Cornelius as a choral work for Epiphany. Born into a Welsh musical family at Llandaff, Atkins graduated with a bachelor of music degree from The Queen's College, Oxford in 1892, and subsequently obtained a Doctorate in Music (Oxford).
  • He was assistant organist of Hereford Cathedral (1890-1893) and organist of St Laurence Church, Ludlow from 1893 to 1897.
  • He composed songs, church music, service settings and anthems.
  • With Edward Elgar he prepared an edition of Bach's St.
  • Matthew Passion.
  • He was knighted in 1921 for services to music and was President of the Royal College of Organists from 1935 to 1936.
  • He was a friend of Edward Elgar, who in 1904 dedicated the third of his Pomp and Circumstance Marches to him.
  • It was Atkins who later suggested that Elgar's 'Severn Suite' -- produced in 1930 as a brass band competition piece, and arranged for orchestra in 1932 -- should be transcribed for organ; Elgar suggested that Atkins do the arrangement himself.
  • The resulting work -- on which Elgar and Atkins worked together -- was completed in 1932 and published as Elgar's 'Second Organ Sonata'.
  • Sir Ivor Atkins' wife, Katherine, was Mayor of Worcester in 1937.
  • Their ashes were interred in Worcester Cathedral.

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