Osborne Peasgood

Osborne Harold Peasgood CVO (5 March 1902 – 25 January 1962) was an organist at Westminster Abbey who played at a number of state occasions in the Abbey, including the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Peasgood was born in London on 5 March 1902 and gained a scholarship to the Royal College of Music when he was 17. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists in 1926 followed by a doctorate at Dublin in 1936. Peasgood taught the organ at the Royal College of Music and had become sub-organist at Westminster Abbey from 1924.

Peasgood also composed two services and from Handel's Water Music, he published an edition of a suite for the organ.

See also

List of Westminster Abbey organists

References

1902 births

1962 deaths

Musicians from London

English organists

British male organists

Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order

Alumni of the Royal College of Music

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