Charles Vincent

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Aliases: Charles John Vincent

Life

Born: 19 September 1852

Died: 23 February 1934

Biography

Vincent was born in Houghton-le-Spring, Co. Durham. He was a cho­ris­ter in Dur­ham Ca­thed­ral, and stu­died or­gan un­der Phil­ip Armes. From 1869–76 he served as or­gan­ist at Monk­wear­mouth Par­ish Church. He then tra­velled to Leip­zig, Ger­ma­ny, for two years, re­turn­ing as or­gan­ist at Tav­is­tock Par­ish Church. From 1883–91, he played the or­gan at Christ Church, Hamp­stead. Af­ter­wards, he ex­am­ined for Tri­ni­ty Col­lege, Lon­don. He found­ed The Or­gan­ist and Choir­mas­ter, 1893, and a mu­sic pub­lish­ing bus­i­ness (the Vincent Music Company) in con­nec­tion with this, be­com­ing ve­ry succ­ess­ful. He al­so found­ed the firm of Rog­ers, pi­an­o­for­te mak­ers. After re­tir­ing in the late 1920’s, he lived at Hen­don. He was awarded Mus. Doc. Oxford. He died in Monte Carlo, where he was buried.

His works in­clude:

The Chant Book Com­pan­ion
The Ang­li­can Or­gan­ist
Ruth, an or­a­tor­io

View the Wikipedia article on Charles Vincent.

List of choral works

 


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Publications

External links

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