Frank Pullein

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Frank Pullein ARCO (1871 - 1 March 1954) was an organist and composer based in England.

England Country in north-west Europe, part of the United Kingdom

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Life

He was born in 1871, the son of William Pullein and Hannah Rose. His father was a Professor of Music.

His three brothers, William Rose Pullein, John Pullein and Ernest Pullein were also organists.

William Rose Pullein was an organist and composer based in England.

John Pullein FRCO was an organist and composer based in England.

Ernest Pullein FRCO was an organist and composer based in England.

He was in the choir of Lincoln Cathedral as a boy, and then an articled pupil of John Matthew Wilson Young and then assistant organist.

John Matthew Wilson Young was an English organist. He was elder brother to William James Young, also a well-known English organist. John M.W. Young was buried in the cemetery at East Gate in Lincoln. He married Augusta Frushard, youngest daughter of Philip Frushard, the Governor of Durham Gaol, and Anna Maria Pewsey his wife, on 8 July 1851 at St. Paul's Church, Deptford, Kent.

He moved to Wrexham in 1895 where he stayed until his death in 1954.

Appointments

Lincoln Cathedral Church in Lincolnshire, England

Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln Minster, or the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln and sometimes St Mary's Cathedral, in Lincoln, England, is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Lincoln. Construction commenced in 1072 and continued in several phases throughout the medieval period. Like many of the medieval cathedrals of England it was built in the Gothic style.

St Giles Church, Wrexham Church in Wrexham, Wales

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Compositions

He composed:

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References

  1. ↑ Dictionary of Organs and Organists, 1912
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