BERTRAM LUARD-SELBY

Bertram Luard-Selby (1853-1918) was born at The Mote, Ightham, Kent. He studied organ at the Leipzig Conservatoire and was organist at St. Barnabas-Marylebone, Highgate School, Salisbury Cathedral; St. John’s-Torquay, and St. Barnabas-Pimlico. He was appointed organist of Rochester Cathedral in 1900, and held the post until 1916, when took a post at Bradfield College. He was the musical editor of Hymns Ancient and Modern (1904). He composed two school cantatas, chamber music including two piano quintet, a piano quartet, three sonatas for violin and piano, and many songs and part-songs. His church music includes two settings of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, 16 anthems, and a number of pieces for the organ. Other works include incidental music, three operas, and a one-act comic opera first produced in 1896 as a curtain-raiser for The Mikado.

All are mixed chorus; some contain divisi.

SET	TITLE	VOICING	TEXT	LISTEN
	An Autumn song		Frederick G. Bowles	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	As I was going to Derby	w/piano	Nursery Rhyme	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	It was a lover		Shakespeare	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Love wakes and sleeps		Sir Walter Scott	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Sing a song of sixpence	w/piano	Nursery Rhyme	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing
	Take, oh, take those lips away		Shakespeare	LISTEN X Stop audio before closing