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He was a chorister at the Chapel Royal and St Paul's Cathedral; then organist of Mitcham Parish Church, Surrey, at age 16; but even before that he had played for services at Westminster Abbey. He was organist at St Peter's Islington, 1838-41; St Luke's, Berwick Street, 1841-43; and then for 55 years at the Temple Church, London 1843-98, where he raised the music to a very high standard.
He taught the organ at the Royal Normal College for the Blind, Norwood, and was one of the founders of the (Royal) College of Organists. He was noted for choir training, and for his service accompaniments and improvis- ations. With E.F.Rimbault he published the classic work, The Organ, its History and Construction (1855, 1870, 1877). He was senior editor of The Organist and Choirmaster from 1893, compiled the original Cathedral Psalter, and was in great demand as a music editor of hymnals for several denominations (including the 1887 Congregational Church Hymnal). He composed much service music, anthems, chants, organ music, and over 150 hymn tunes.
He was a first cousin of J.L.Hopkins
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He was a first cousin of E.J.Hopkins
He was a chorister at Westminster Abbey and a pupil there of James Turle.
He was organist at St Paul's Chapel, Portman Street, and assistant at Westminster Abbey; then organist of Rochester Cathedral 1841-56; Trinity College Cambridge 1856-73; and also University organist at Cambridge. He composed church music and secular vocal music.
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While organist and choirmaster of St Matthias's Church Toronto, 1929-37, he studied composition and theory with Healey Willan and organ with Charles Peaker, graduating B.Mus. at the University of Toronto. He then served several other Canadian Anglican churches, mostly in Ontario.
He was a member of the music advisory committee for The Book of Common Praise 1938, the hymn-book of the Anglican Church in Canada.
His compositions include anthems and organ music.
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His Bohemian name was Roh, but he latinized it as `Cornu' and used `Horn' when writing in German. He was ordained priest in 1518, and appointed preacher to the Bohemian Brethren at Jungbunzlau. With Michael Weisse he went to Wittenberg in 1522 to discuss the Brethren's views with Luther. The Synod of Brandeis appointed him as one of the three Seniors of the Moravians in 1529, and elected him a bishop in 1532.
In 1541 he edited the very large fifth Bohemian hymn-book of the Brethren; in 1544 he revised and enlarged Michael Weisse's 1531 Neu Gesengbuchlen, and also published another German hymn-book for the Brethren, Ein Gesangbuch den Brüder im Behemen und Merherrn. (See separate notes on the Bohemian Brethren's hymn books)
(See also Julian, pp.972b-973a, under Roh, J.)
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He was organist of Ely Chapel, Holborn 1794-98. In 1798 he became assistant organist of the Asylum for Female Orphans, where the organist was his teacher J.W.Callcott (whose daughter he subsequently married); and in 1802 succeeded Callcott as organist, remaining until 1854. He was also organist of Belgrave Chapel, Halkin Street 1812-37, and of the Charterhouse 1838-58.
He was a founder of the London Philharmonic Society in 1813, and became a close friend of Mendelssohn who much admired his numerous glees - on which his reputation now chiefly rests. He also published some theoretical works, collections of hymn tunes, piano sonatas and songs, and edited seven volumes of Clementi's Vocal Harmony. With Callcott he founded a glee club `Concentores Sodales', which flourished from 1798-1847.
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He studied with Herbert Brewer at Gloucester Cathedral 1905-11; then, deciding to concentrate on composition, he won an open scholarship to the Royal College of Music in 1812, where he studied under Parry, Stanford, Charles Wood and Walford Davies. His appointment as sub-organist of Salisbury Cathedral in 1917 was cut short by serious illness within a few weeks.
He taught composition at the Royal College of Music, 1920-72; was director of music at St Paul's Girls' School 1936-62 (succeeding Gustav Holst who had held the post for the preceding thirty years); and King Edward Professor of Music at the University of London 1950-62.
He wrote much music in all forms except opera, but latterly concentrated on church music.
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He was the son of John William Hoyland and Rachel Anna (née Somervell), and was educated at King Edward's School Birmingham and St John's College Cambridge. His wife Dorothea was a daughter of George Cadbury, Quaker and (by that time) the surviving controller of Cadbury's of Bournville.
His working life was devoted to teaching; after some years as a master at Uppingham Junior School, he was appointed Headmaster of The Downs School at Colwell (nr Malvern, Worcs.); and he continued there until 1940 when he took early retirement. He was, it is believed, depressed by the prospect of losing through casualties of war many of the boys whom he had taught during the inter-war years; and much of his time was spent in writing obituaries of those he had known.
He wrote a number of books, mostly on religious themes and many arising from his experience as a schoolmaster. (For a list of some of his published books, see the end of this note.) He also wrote several hymns, five of which appeared in The Fellowship Hymn Book 1933; though "Lord of good life" is probably the only one to have survived in current use, mainly through its inclusion in Congregational Praise and now in Rejoice & Sing.
His Introduction to The Great Outlaw - a Life of Jesus, published in 1944 - reveals something both of his faith and of his life as a teacher. (For a transcription of the Introduction, click on the book title.)
After retiring from the Downs School he moved to Painswick, remaining there until his death.
His published books included
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His family moved to Llantwit Fardre in 1874, where he remained for the rest of his life. At the age of twelve he worked as a `door boy' at Glyn Colliery; from 1905 until his death he had a post in the traffic department of the Great Western Railway.
He was a member of Salem Baptist Chapel, Llantwit Fardre; and, like his father, was deacon and precentor there. He composed many hymn tunes, anthems and songs.
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He lived all his life in Glasgow, where he was a member of St George's Parish Church. He was a keen amateur musician with a fine singing voice, and one of the founders of the Glasgow Dilettanti Society.
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After a period as a schoolmaster, he was Professor of Music at Durham University 1947-68, and Exeter University 1968-71. From 1950 he was a member of the English Hymnal board, and contributed several tunes and arrangements to the English Hymnal Service Book 1962, English Praise 1975 and the New English Hymnal 1986. He was a composer in many forms, and had a wide influence through several important and original text-books.
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