Gerald Hocken Knight (1908–1979) was a cathedral organist, who served at

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Background

Gerald Hocken Knight was born on 27 July 1908 in Par, Cornwall, the only son of Alwyne Knight of Par by his first wife Edith Harvey and descended from yeomen, the Knights of Luxulyan. Gerald was educated at

Truro Cathedral School Truro Cathedral School was a Church of England school for boys in Truro, Cornwall. An ancient school refounded in 1549 as the Truro Grammar School, after the establishment of Truro Cathedral in the last quarter of the 19th century it was respons ...

and

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.Clive Staples Lewis, ed. Walter Hooper, ''Collected Letters: Narnia, Cambridge and Joy 1950-1963'' (2006), p. 1015: "Gerald Hocken Knight (1908-78) was educated at Truro Cathedral School and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he took a BA in 1928." He was an articled organ pupil of

Hubert Stanley Middleton Hubert Stanley Middleton (11 May 1890 – 13 August 1959) was a cathedral organist who served at Truro Cathedral and Ely Cathedral before taking up a long-standing organist and teaching appointment at Trinity College, Cambridge. Background Midd ...

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. Director of the Royal School of Church Music 1954-1973. He was appointed a Fellow of the

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in 1964.

Publications

Together with

John Dykes Bower Sir John Dykes Bower (13 August 190529 May 1981) was an English cathedral organist who served in Truro Cathedral, Durham Cathedral and St Paul's Cathedral. Background Bower was born in Gloucester into a musical family, a descendant of the hymn ...

, he co-edited the "revised edition" of

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, which was published in 1950. In addition, he published the following compositions and books: *The Treasury of English Church Music. Volume one. 1100-1545. Edited by Denis Stevens, etc. 1965 *Accompaniments for unison Hymn-singing. 1971 *Christ whose Glory fills the Skies. nthem for treble voices and organ.Words by Charles Wesley, etc. 1957 *The Coventry Mass. Adapted from medieval sources. Accompaniment by G. H. Knight. 1966 *Incidental Vocal Music to "The Devil to pay," Play by Dorothy L. Sayers. 1939 *Incidental Music to The Zeal of Thy House, Dorothy L. Sayers. 1938 *Twenty Questions on Church Music. Answered by G. H. Knight (Series. no. 3.), 1950 *R.S.C.M. The first forty years. 1968

Career

Organist of: * St Augustine of Canterbury, Queen's Gate London 1931 - 1937 *

1937 - 1953

References

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