Richard Popplewell LVO (18 October 1935 – 22 March 2016) was an English

organist An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ (music), organ. An organist may play organ repertoire, solo organ works, play with an musical ensemble, ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumentalist, instrumental ...

and composer who served at the

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and

St Michael's, Cornhill St Michael, Cornhill, is a medieval parish church in the City of London with pre-Norman Conquest parochial foundation. It lies in the ward of Cornhill. The medieval structure was lost in the Great Fire of London, and replaced by the present bui ...

. Popplewell died in 22 March 2016, at the age of 80.

Works

His music was published by Banks.

Choral

* A vast cloud of love (words by Madeline Chase) * I will lift up mine eyes (Psalm 121) * Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D-flat * O how amiable (Psalm 84) * There is no rose (Medieval words) * Two Final Amens

Organ

* Elegy (in memory of

Harold Darke Harold Edwin Darke (29 October 1888 – 28 November 1976) was an English composer and organist. He is particularly known for his choral compositions, which are an established part of the repertoire of Anglican church music. Darke had a fifty-ye ...

) * Puck's Shadow * Triumphal March * Organ Concerto 1 * Organ Concerto 2

References

1916–1966 1979– 1935 births 2016 deaths 21st-century English male musicians 21st-century English organists Academics of the Royal College of Music Alumni of the Royal College of Music English cathedral organists English classical organists Lieutenants of the Royal Victorian Order People educated at Clifton College Musicians from Halifax, West Yorkshire English male classical organists {{England-musician-stub