Brewer, Herbert

Alfred Herbert Brewer ( born Alfred Herbert Brewer ; June 21, 1865 - March 1, 1928 ) - British organist, conductor and composer.

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As a child, he sang in the choir of boys of Gloucester Cathedral , where he studied organ playing with C.H. Lloyd . Then he studied at Oxford, graduated from the Royal College of Music , worked as an organist in Bristol , Coventry and Tonbridge , then returned to Gloucester , from 1897 to the end of his life, organist and choirmaster of Gloucester Cathedral. In 1905 he founded and led the Gloucester Choral Society. For many years, he led the Gloucester Festival of the Three Choirs (Contrary to the name, dedicated not only to choral music); during the festival, in particular, in 1913 he conducted the world premiere of a symphonic poem for voice and orchestra " Daughters of Nature " by Jan Sibelius (soloist - Aino Akte ). In 1926 he was knighted.

Brewer's compositional legacy includes mainly Anglican church music, of which Magnificat is of greatest importance, as well as numerous organ compositions and organ transcriptions of the works of Edward Elgar .