After my earlier upload (
https://www.contrebombarde.com/concerthall/music/62756 Solemn Fughetta on the theme 'Credo In Unum Deum') from 'The Latin Organist' another fine piece, with some more beautiful colors of the Blackburn Cathedral instrument.
The piece, written by Francis Edward Gladstone, starts with a chorale prelude, with elegant intersections, followed by a fine fugue with the CF in the Pedal (soloed by the 8' Trumpet), building up to an impressive ending (full organ).
Francis Edward Gladstone (2 March 1845 – 6 September 1928) was an English organist.
He was a pupil of Samuel Sebastian Wesley at Winchester Cathedral. He earned his Mus.Doc. at Cambridge University.
He was
- Organist of Holy Trinity Church, Weston-super-Mare 1864-66
- Organist of Llandaff Cathedral 1866-70
- Organist of Chichester Cathedral 1870-73
- Organist of St Patrick's Church, Hove 1873-75
- Organist of St Peter's Church, Brighton 1875-76
- Organist of St. Mark's Church, Lewisham 1876-77
- Organist of Norwich Cathedral 1877-81
- Director of Music of St Mary of the Angels, Bayswater 1881–94.
He was also Professor of Organ (1885–99) at the Royal College of Music and Professor of Harmony and Counterpoint there from 1884 to 1910.
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Marco
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