Reginald Tustin Baker
Reginald Tustin Baker FRCO (4 July 1900 – 18 December 1966) was an English organist and composer.[1][2]
Biography[]
Baker was born in 1900 in Gloucester,[3] the son of Albert William Baker (b. 1860) and Emily Jane Tustin (1861–1918). He studied organ under Herbert Brewer at Gloucester Cathedral and became his assistant from 1920–26, after fighting in the British Army during the First World War.[2]
He died in December 1966 in Sheffield Cathedral following Evening Prayer.[2]
Appointments[]
- Assistant organist of Gloucester Cathedral 1920–26
- Organist of St. Luke's Church, San Francisco 1926–28
- Organist of Hexham Abbey 1928–29
- Organist of Halifax Minster after 1929–37
- Organist of Sheffield Cathedral 1939–66
Compositions[]
His compositions include:
- Evening Service in D
- Communion Service in A flat
- Anthems: At the Lord's High Feast, The Lord in my Shepherd, Bow thine ear.
- Choral songs: Sleep Holy Babe, Christ was born on Christmas Day, Sing O Sing, I wandered lonely as a cloud.
References[]
Categories:
- 1900 births
- 1966 deaths
- English organists
- British male organists
- Fellows of the Royal College of Organists
- 20th-century classical musicians
- 20th-century English composers
- 20th-century organists
- 20th-century British male musicians
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