Bernard Rose | |
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Born | Bernard William George Rose 9 May 1916 Sawbridgeworth, England |
Died | 21 November 1996 Bampton, Oxfordshire, England | (aged 80)
Occupation(s) | Organist, music tutor |
Era | 20th-century music |
Known for | Anglican church music |
Spouse | |
Children | 3, including Gregory |
Bernard William George Rose OBE FRCO (9 May 1916 – 21 November 1996) was a British organist, soldier, composer, and academic.
A graduate of Cambridge University, he is best known for his compositions of Anglican church music; his Preces and Responses, for use in the Anglican services of Mattins and Evensong, is widely performed. He served as a soldier in the Second World War, and went on to become a noted choir master and music tutor, counting among his pupils the composer Kenneth Leighton, musicians Professor Roger Bray, Professor David Wulstan and Harry Christophers, and actor Dudley Moore.[1]