Edgar Pettman
Illustration — Pettman's arrangement of Gabriel's Message Edgar Pettman (1866–1943) was an English organist, choral conductor and music editor. Edgar Pettman was born at Dunkirk, Kent in 1881, Pettman entered the Royal Academy of Music where he studied under Sir George Macfarren. He was organist at a number of London churches, including St Mary's, Kilburn (1888), St James's Church, Piccadilly (!897-1902) and St Sepulchre's, Holborn (1902-1915) until his retirement in 1924.
Edgar Pettman
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- 1866
- Died
- 1943
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- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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- composer
- Education
- Royal Academy of Music
- Languages
- English
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Born in 1866, died in 1943.
Edgar Pettman studied at Royal Academy of Music. The recorded working language is English.
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- 1.Hyperion Records
- 2.Composer biographies , accessed 22 November 2010
- 3.Raymond F. Glover, The hymnal 1982 companion: Service music and biographies, Volume 2, 1994, p.565
- 4.Suzanne Cole, Thomas Tallis and his music in Victorian England, Volume 4 of Music in Britain, 1600-1900, (Boydell Press, 2008) p.160
- 5.'Edgar Pettman', The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology
- 6.Musical news: Volume 16, 1899
- 7.Edgar Pettman, Modern Christmas carols (Weekes & Co., 1892)
- 8.Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came
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