Gerald H. Knight

Gerald Hocken Knight (1908–1979) was a cathedral organist, who served at Canterbury Cathedral.

Background

Gerald Hocken Knight was born on 27 July 1908 in Par, Cornwall, the only son of Alwyne Knight of Par by his first wife Edith Harvey and descended from yeomen, the Knights of Luxulyan. Gerald was educated at Truro Cathedral School and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He was an articled organ pupil of Hubert Stanley Middleton at Truro Cathedral.

Director of the Royal School of Church Music 1954-1973.

He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music in 1964.

Publications

Together with John Dykes Bower, he co-edited the "revised edition" of Hymns Ancient and Modern, which was published in 1950. In addition, he published the following compositions and books:

The Treasury of English Church Music. Volume one. 1100-1545. Edited by Denis Stevens, etc. 1965 Accompaniments for unison Hymn-singing. 1971 Christ whose Glory fills the Skies. [Anthem for treble voices and organ.] Words by Charles Wesley, etc. 1957 The Coventry Mass. Adapted from medieval sources. Accompaniment by G. H. Knight. 1966 Incidental Vocal Music to "The Devil to pay," Play by Dorothy L. Sayers. 1939 Incidental Music to The Zeal of Thy House, Dorothy L. Sayers. 1938 Twenty Questions on Church Music. Answered by G. H. Knight (Series. no. 3.), 1950 R.S.C.M. The first forty years. 1968

Career

Organist of: St Augustine of Canterbury, Queen's Gate London 1931 - 1937 Canterbury Cathedral 1937 - 1953

References

1908 births

1979 deaths

English classical organists

British male organists

Cathedral organists

Hymnal editors

Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge

Commanders of the Order of the British Empire

People from Tywardreath and Par

People educated at Truro Cathedral School

20th-century classical musicians

20th-century English musicians

20th-century organists

20th-century British male musicians

Musicians from Cornwall

Male classical organists