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Name
  
Gerald Knight

Died
  
1979

Education
  
Peterhouse, Cambridge


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Gerald Hocken Knight CBE (1908–1979) was an cathedral organist, who served at Canterbury Cathedral.

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Background

Gerald Hocken Knight was born on 27 July 1908 in Par, Cornwall, and was educated at Truro Cathedral School and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He was an articled organ pupil of Hubert Stanley Middleton at Truro Cathedral.

Director of the Royal School of Church Music 1954-1973.

He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music in 1964.

Publications

He published the following compositions and books:

  • The Treasury of English Church Music. Volume one. 1100-1545. Edited by Denis Stevens, etc. 1965
  • Accompaniments for unison Hymn-singing. 1971
  • Christ whose Glory fills the Skies. [Anthem for treble voices and organ.] Words by Charles Wesley, etc. 1957
  • The Coventry Mass. Adapted from medieval sources. Accompaniment by G. H. Knight. 1966
  • Incidental Vocal Music to "The Devil to pay," Play by Dorothy L. Sayers. 1939
  • Incidental Music to The Zeal of Thy House, Dorothy L. Sayers. 1938
  • Twenty Questions on Church Music. Answered by G. H. Knight (Series. no. 3.), 1950
  • R.S.C.M. The first forty years. 1968

    • Career

    Organist of:

  • St Augustine of Canterbury, Queen's Gate London 1931 - 1937
  • Canterbury Cathedral 1937 - 1953

    • References

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