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Andrew Carter (born 13 December 1939) is an English composer, conductor and arranger.
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Andrew Carter (born 13 December 1939) is an English composer, conductor and arranger.
Andrew Carter was born in Leicester on 13 December 1939. [1] He studied music at the University of Leeds before moving to York and joining the choir at York Minster as a bass. Whilst there, in 1965 he founded the Chapter House Choir, a mixed voice ensemble that achieved national renown under his direction of seventeen years. After spending a year conducting and adjudicating in New Zealand (1984), he returned to England to focus on composition.
Oxford University Press have published more than fifty of his compositions over a period of association spanning twenty-five years. The Nine Lessons and Carols service broadcast annually on the BBC by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, has included several of his carols, including "A maiden most gentle" and "Mary's Magnificat".
A notable moment in Carter's musical career was a commission in 1997 to write a mass (Missa Sancti Pauli) for the tercentenary celebration of St Paul's Cathedral in London. In 2007, he composed a 22-variation passacaglia for organ to mark the 90th birthday of the former York Minster organist Francis Jackson.
He travels extensively in Europe and Australia and New Zealand as a choral director.
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The Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo, Hob. XXII:7, Novello 8, is a mass in B-flat major by Joseph Haydn. The missa brevis was written around 1775 for the order of the Barmherzige Brüder in Eisenstadt, whose patron saint was John of God. Scored modestly for soprano, four-part mixed choir, two violins, organ and bass, it is known as the Kleine Orgelmesse due to an extended organ solo in the Benedictus movement which also includes the only featured solo voice - a soprano.
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