Geoffrey Webber

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Geoffrey Webber is a musician and academic, and the former Director of Music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. [1]

Webber was a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral, and was educated at the King's School Worcester and New College, Oxford, where he was awarded an organ scholarship in 1977. [2] He wrote his doctoral thesis on the organ music of Dietrich Buxtehude. [3]

He was appointed Assisting Organist of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1982, and University Organist and Director of Music at the University Church in 1984. [2] In 1989 he was appointed Precentor and Director of Music at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, serving until his resignation due to inappropriate behaviour in April 2019. [4] He was succeeded by Matthew Martin.

Webber's publications include North German Church Music in the Age of Buxtehude (1996), the Cambridge Companion to the Organ (1998, as co-editor), and The Restoration Anthem (2003). [2]

Works

His works [5] include:

References

  1. ↑ "Dr Geoffrey Webber". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 "Geoffrey Webber". Hyperion Records. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  3. ↑ Webber, Geoffrey. North German Church Music in the Age of Buxtehude. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
  4. ↑ "Gonville & Caius Fellow and Precentor resigns following 'inappropriate behaviour' toward student". Varsity Online. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
  5. ↑ "Geoffrey Webber - Discography". Discogs . Retrieved 19 August 2020.
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