John Stainer
Biography
Sir John Stainer (6 June 1840 – 31 March 1901) was an English composer and organist whose music, though seldom performed today (with the exception of The Crucifixion, still heard at Passiontide in some Anglican churches), was very popular during his lifetime. His work as choir trainer and organist set standards for Anglican church music that are still influential. He was also active as an academic, becoming Heather Professor of Music at Oxford. Stainer was born in Southwark, London, in 1840, the son of a schoolmaster. He became a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral when aged ten and was appointed to the position of organist at St Michael's College, Tenbury, at the age of sixteen. He later became organist at Magdalen College, Oxford, and subsequently organist at St Paul's Cathedral. When he retired owing to his poor eyesight and deteriorating health, he returned to Oxford to become Professor of Music at the university. He died unexpectedly while on holiday in Italy in 1901.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
404 releases · 75 albums · active 1951–2026
- Performance · 420
- Other credits · 28
Studios: St Paul's Cathedral, London, England · St. John's College Chapel, Cambridge · American Academy Of Arts And Letters · Chapel Of Magdalen College, Oxford
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Stainer
- The Robert Shaw Chorale
- The Choir Of King's College, Cambridge
- The Temple Church Choir
- Chor St. Johannis Burgfarrnbach
- Choir Of King's College, Cambridge
- S.S. Wesley