List of Worcester Cathedral organists

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This is a list of organists at Worcester Cathedral, in the city of Worcester, England. Notable organists at Worcester have included Thomas Tomkins (from 1596), Hugh Blair (from 1895), Ivor Atkins (from 1897), David Willcocks (from 1950) and Christopher Robinson (from 1963). The present organist (from 2019) is Samuel Hudson.

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Organists

1710–1745, the post of Master of the Choristers was separated from that of Organist, Ralph Dean (1710–23) and William Davis (1723–45) serving as Master of the Choristers.

Source for dates 1662–1897:Atkins, Ivor (1918). The early occupants of the office of organist and master of the choristers of the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessèd Virgin Mary, Worcester. London: Mitchell Hughes and Clarke. pp. 70–71.

Assistant Organists

Assistant Organists and Assistant Directors of Music

Sub-Assistant Organists

Explanatory notes

  1. Vaughan Richardson deputized for the ailing Davis who officially held the post of organist until his death in 1688. Richardson was never officially in the post of organist and was not offered the position when Davis died in 1688. [2]

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References

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