Henry Ley (organist)
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Henry George Ley MA DMus FRCO FRCM HonRAM (30 December 1887 – 24 August 1962) was an English organist, composer and music teacher.
Dr Ley was born in Chagford in Devon on 30 December 1887. He was a chorister at St George’s Chapel Windsor Castle, Music Scholar at Uppingham School, Organ Scholar of Keble College Oxford (1906) where he was President of the University Musical Club in 1908, and an Exhibitioner at the Royal College of Music where he was a pupil of Sir Walter Parratt and Marmaduke Barton. He was organist at St Mary’s, Farnham Royal, from 1905–1906, and at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford (1909–1926), Professor of organ at the Royal College of Music in London from 1919, and Precentor at Radley College and at Eton College (that is, in charge of the music in College Chapel) from 1926 to 1945. He was an Honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, from 1926 to 1945 and died on 24 August 1962.
He was a composer of choral works, including a celebrated setting of the Founder’s Prayer of King Henry VI.
External links
- Free scores by Henry Ley (organist) in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- 1887 births
- 1962 deaths
- English classical organists
- People from West Devon (district)
- English classical composers
- 20th-century classical composers
- Alumni of Keble College, Oxford
- Composers for pipe organ
- Cathedral organists
- Classical composers of church music
- English Christians
- Alumni of the Royal College of Music
- Fellows of the Royal College of Organists
- Musicians from Devon
- English male classical composers
- 20th-century English musicians