Sir Walter Parratt

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Sir Walter Parratt was a prominent English organist, composer, and teacher who served as Master of the Queen’s Music and held several prestigious church and court musical appointments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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instanceOf English musician
composer
human
music teacher
organist
areaOfInfluence British church music
awardReceived knighthood
countryOfCitizenship England
United Kingdom
educatedAt Huddersfield
employer Leeds Minster
surface form: Leeds Parish Church

Magdalen College, Oxford
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England
surface form: St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

University of Oxford
Wigan Parish Church
fieldOfWork composition
music education
organ performance
genre church music
classical music
honorificPrefix Sir
knownFor service as Master of the Queen's Music
teaching at Oxford University
virtuoso organ playing
memberOf Order of the Bath
The Royal Victorian Order
surface form: Royal Victorian Order
movement late Romantic music
name Walter Parratt
nativeLanguage English
notableStudent Leopold Stokowski
notableWork church music
organ compositions
occupation composer
music teacher
organist
university professor
positionHeld Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford
surface form: Heather Professor of Music at Oxford University

Master of the King’s Musick
surface form: Master of the Queen's Music

Professor of Music at Oxford University
organist of Magdalen College, Oxford
organist of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
organist of Wigan Parish Church
sub-organist of Leeds Parish Church
religion Anglicanism (broadly)
surface form: Anglicanism
sexOrGender male
taught counterpoint and composition
organ performance
workLocation Leeds
Oxford
Wigan
Windsor

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