Sir John Stainer was an English composer and organist whose music, though seldom performed today, was very popular during his lifetime. His work as choir trainer and organist set standards for Anglican church music that are still influential. He was also active as an academic, becoming Heather Professor of Music at Oxford.
Samuel Scheidt was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era.
Sir John Goss was an English organist, composer and teacher.
James Healey Willan (1880–1968) was an Anglo-Canadian organist and composer. He composed more than 800 works including operas, symphonies, chamber music, a concerto, and pieces for band, orchestra, organ, and piano. He is best known for his church music.
William Thomas Best was an English organist and composer.
Joseph Bonnet was a French composer and organist.
Georg Böhm was a German Baroque organist and composer. He is notable for his development of the chorale partita and for his influence on the young J. S. Bach.
Thomas Tertius Noble was an English-born organist and composer, resident in the United States for the latter part of his career.
Thomas Attwood was an English composer and organist.
Reginald Herbert Dixon, MBE, ARCM was an English theatre organist who was primarily known for his position as organist at the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool, a position he held from March 1930 until March 1970. He made and sold more recordings than any other organist before him, or since. He was in high demand throughout the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s. During his fifty-year career he was one of the top-selling artists, his prolific output ranking alongside that of Victor Silvester and Bing Crosby.
Horace Finch was an English pianist and organist.
Roderick Hallowell "Sandy" MacPherson was a Canadian-born theatre organist in the UK who as the second official BBC Theatre Organist achieved considerable broadcasting time in the early weeks of World War II.
George Elbridge Whiting was an American composer of classical music.
Sir John Frederick Bridge was an English organist, composer, teacher and writer.
Charles H. Steggall was an English hymnodist and composer.
Edwin Henry Lemare was an English organist and composer who lived the latter part of his life in the United States. He was the most highly regarded and highly paid organist of his generation, as well as the greatest performer and one of the most important composers of the late Romantic English-American Organ School.
Reginald John Foort was a cinema organist and theatre organist. He was the first official BBC Staff Theatre Organist from 1936 to 1938, during which time he made 405 broadcasts on the organ at St George's Hall, Langham Place. 'Reggie' was a hugely popular broadcaster in his heyday in the late 1930s in Britain and later settled in the United States, where he similarly enjoyed an illustrious career performing and recording.
The Reverend Frederick Scotson Clark was an English organist and composer. He was founder of the London Organ School and College of Music.
Robert Ernest Bryson was a Scottish composer and organist who spent most of his life in Birkenhead, England, working as a cotton merchant in Liverpool. He was the founder-chairman and later President of the Rodewald Concert Society in Liverpool.
