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Details of Magdalen College, High Street, Oxford, England


Chapel (1487)

Organ History
1487Built by William Wotton

Chapel (1637)

Organ History
1637Built by Thomas Harris
1654Move
1660Move
Sources
The Musical Times 733

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
21313--

Great
1.Diapason I
2.Diapason II
3.Principal I
4.Principal II
5.Fifteenth I
6.Fifteenth II
7.Two-and-Twentieths I
8.Two-and-Twentieths II
Choir
9.Stopped Diapason
10.Principal I
11.Principal II
12.Recorder
13.Fifteenth

Chapel (1690)

Organ History
1690Renovated by Renatus Harris
1737Moved to St. Mary’s Abbey, Tewkesbury, England
Sources
The Musical Times 733

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
21313--

Great
1.Diapason
2.Stopped Diapason
3.Principal
4.Cedirne
5.Great Twelfth
6.Fifteenth
7.FurnitureIII
8.CymbalII
Choir
9.Stopped Diapason
10.Principal
11.Flute
12.Nason
13.Fifteenth

Chapel (1740)

Organ History
1740Built by Thomas Schwarbrook
Sources
Hopkins & Rimbault - “The Organ: Its History and Construction - A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ” - Robert Cocks & Co., 1877, London

Chapel (1855)

Organ History
1855Built by Gray & Davison
Sources
Hopkins & Rimbault - “The Organ: Its History and Construction - A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ” - Robert Cocks & Co., 1877, London

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
435359T/TP

I. Choir
1.Salicional8'
2.Gamba8'
3.Stopped Diapason, Bass8'
4.Concert Flute8'
5.Octave4'
6.Flute d’Amour4'
7.Piccolo2'
8.Corno di Bassetto8'
iSwell to Choir
II. Great
9.Open Diapason8'
10.Open Diapason8'
11.Stopped Diapason8'
12.Octave4'
13.Flute8'
14.Twelfth2 2/3'
15.Super-octave4'
16.SesquialteraIII
17.MixtureIII
18.Posaune8'
iiSwell to Great
iiiChoir Sub-octave to Great
ivSwell to Great, Sub-octave
vSwell to Great, Super-octave
III. Swell
19.Bourdon16'
20.Open Diapason8'
21.Stopped Diapason, Bass8'
22.Clarionet Flute8'
23.Keraulophon8'
24.Octave4'
25.Super-octave2'
26.SesquialteraIII
27.Cornopean8'
28.Oboe8'
29.Clarion4'
30.Tremulant
viSolo to Swell
IV. Solo
31.Flute Harmonic8'
32.Tromba8'
Pedal
33.Grand Open Diapason16'
34.Grand Bourdon16'
35.Grand Octave8'
36.Grand Trombone16'
viiSwell to Pedal
viiiGreat to Pedal
ixChoir to Pedal

Chapel

Organ History
Binns
Hele
Sources
Dictionary of Organs and Organists” - George Mate & Son, 1921

ManualsStopsRanksCouplersAction
450---

Hall

Organ History
Built by John Byfield
Sources
Hopkins & Rimbault - “The Organ: Its History and Construction - A Comprehensive Treatise on the Structure and Capabilities of the Organ” - Robert Cocks & Co., 1877, London



List of Organists
Lewis Richard
1490Richard Davies
1490William Bernard
1490-92Richard Davy (1467-1516)
1491Ralph Barton
1498-1500John Thomas
1500-02Richard Parker
1502-20George Kendall
1509John Mason
1519Robert Porret (-1550)
1523-26Clement Perrot
1523-26William Whyterton
1530-42Robert Perrot (-1550)
1539-41Thomas Appilby (1500-1562)
1542-54John Shepherd (1515-1554)
1543Thomas Preston (1500-1564)
1595-1639Richard Nicolson (1595-1639)
1639-61Arthur Phillips (1605-1695)
1661-64Theodore Coleby
1664-85Benjamin Rogers (1614-1698)
1665Edmund Slater
1685-87Francis Pigott (-1704)
1688-95Daniel Purcell (1660-1717)
1695-1734Thomas Hecht (-1734)
1734Matthew Phillips
1734-77William Hayes (1706-1777)
1777-97Philip Hayes (1738-1797)
1797-1845Walter Vicary (1770-1845)
1845-59Benjamin Blyth (1824-1883)
1860-72John Stainer (1840-1901)
Frederick Archer (1838-1901)
1872-82Walter Parratt (1841-1924)
1882-1919J. V. Roberts (1841-1920)
1919-38Haldane Campbell Stewart (1868-1942)
1938-41William Mc Kie (1901-1984)
1941-43Haldane Campbell Stewart (1868-1942)
1943-57Philip J. Taylor
1957-81Bernard Rose (1916-1996)
1981-91John Harper (1947-)
1991-2009Grayston Ives (1948-)
2009-Daniel Hyde

List of Assistant Organists
David Leigh
Walter Vicary (1770-1845)
1858-59Edward Vine Hall (1837-1909)
Ernest Prichard (1887-1945)

List of Organ Scholars
David Davies
Jeremy Suter
Geoffrey Morgan
1961-64Robert William Vincent (1941-)
Steven Grahl (1975-)