Herbert Brewer

Life

Born: June 21, 1865, Gloucester, England.

Died: March 1, 1928, Millers Green, Gloucester, England.

Biography

Arthur Herbert Brewer started his musical career as a chorister in Gloucester Cathedral, where he was a pupil of organist Charles Lloyd. He attended the Cathedral School and Exeter College, Oxford. He served as organist at St. Catherine’s and St. Mary de Crypt, Gloucester (1881), and at St. Giles’ Church, Oxford (1882). He received the first organ scholarship to the Royal College of Music (1883), and was organ scholar at Exeter (1883). He later played the organ at Bristol Cathedral (1885); St. Michael’s, Coventry (1886); Tonbridge School (1892), and Gloucester Cathedral (1896).

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List of choral works

• A solemn prayer
• Alexander
• Blessing, glory, wisdom and thanks
• Bow down Thine ear, O Lord
• The boy
• Double chant in G major
• Evening canticles in D
• Evening canticles in E flat
• Evening Canticles in F
• I heard the bells
• Jubilate Deo in B flat major
• Jubilate Deo in E flat major
• The marriage of the frog and the mouse
• Most blessed Jesus
• O death, where is thy sting?
• Prevent us, O Lord
• There is a garden in her face
• When cats run home
• Whence comes this Light

 
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