William Wooding Starmer ( born William Wooding Starmer ; November 4, 1866 , Wellingborough - October 27, 1927 ) is a British musicologist and composer.
He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music , a student of T.O. Matthew (piano), Charles Stegall (organ) and George MacFarren (composition). Later in 1906 he was elected a member of the Academy.
Since 1888 , for two decades, organist and choirmaster of St. Mark's Church in the city of Tunbridge Wells . Then a professor at the University of Birmingham . He was considered the largest specialist in the study of bells , the author of the first systematic approach to their musical properties and, in particular, to use as a musical instrument [1] .
The author of choral, vocal and organ music. He wrote a number of articles for the Grove Music Dictionary . Starmer’s pupil was adolescent composer Alan Bush [2] .
Notes
- ↑ WG Rice. The Carillons of Belgium after the Great War // "Art and Archeology", Vol. XII No. 2 (August 1921), pp. 60-61. (eng.)
- ↑ Alan Bush. In My Eighth Decade // Alan Bush Music Trust
Literature
- Mr. WW Starmer // “The Musical Herald”, No. 710 (May 1, 1907), pp. 131-134. (eng.)