Biographical Dictionary of the Organ
Organ Biography > Places and Organs > Wales > Cardiff > Llandaff Cathedral
| Organ History | |
|---|---|
| 1857 | Built 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 | |
| Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 33 | 33 | 5 | T |
| I. Choir (Tracker CC-f3 54 notes) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Double Diapason | 16' | |
| 2. | Spitz Flute | 8' | |
| 3. | Dulciana | 8' | |
| 4. | Stopped Diapason, Bass | 8' | |
| 5. | Clarinet Flute | 8' | |
| 6. | Gemshorn | 4' | |
| 7. | Flute | 4' | |
| 8. | Piccolo | 2' | |
| 9. | Clarinet | 8' | (tenor c) |
| i | Swell to Choir | ||
| II. Great (Tracker CC-f3 54 notes) | |||
| 10. | Bourdon | 16' | |
| 11. | Open Diapason | 8' | |
| 12. | Gamba | 8' | |
| 13. | Stopped Diapason | 8' | |
| 14. | Principal | 4' | |
| 15. | Harmonic Flute | 4' | |
| 16. | Twelfth | 2 2/3' | |
| 17. | Fifteenth | 2' | |
| 18. | Mixture | IV | |
| 19. | Trumpet | 8' | |
| ii | Swell to Great | ||
| III. Swell (Tracker CC-f3 54 notes) | |||
| 20. | Double Diapason | 16' | |
| 21. | Open Diapason | 8' | |
| 22. | Keraulophon | 8' | |
| 23. | Stopped Diapason | 8' | |
| 24. | Principal | 4' | |
| 25. | Fifteenth | 2' | |
| 26. | Mixture | II | |
| 27. | Cornopean | 8' | |
| 28. | Oboe | 8' | |
| 29. | Clarion | 4' | |
| Pedal (Tracker CCC-e 29 notes) | |||
| 30. | Open Diapason | 16' | |
| 31. | Bourdon | 16' | |
| 32. | Principal | 8' | |
| 33. | Trombone | 16' | |
| iii | Swell to Pedal | ||
| iv | Great to Pedal | ||
| v | Choir to Pedal | ||
| Organ History | |
|---|---|
| 1900 | Built by Norman & Beard |
| 1914 | Enlarged by Norman & Beard |
| Sources | |
| “Dictionary of Organs and Organists” - George Mate & Son, 1921 | |
| Manuals | Stops | Ranks | Couplers | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 35 | - | 11 | EP |
| List of Organists | |
|---|---|
| 1629- | George Carr |
| 1861-65 | John Bernard Wilkes |
| 1865-66 | Hamilton Clarke (1840-1912) |
| 1866-70 | Francis Edward Gladstone (1845-1928) |
| 1870-76 | Theodore Aylward (1844-1933) |
| 1876-82 | C. Lee Williams (1851-1935) |
| 1882-94 | Hugh Brooksbank (1854-1894) |
| 1894-1936 | George G. Beale (1868-1936) |
| Leonard William Manaton (1904-) | |
| 1937-46 | W. Harry Gabb (1909-1995) |
| 1940- | R. M. Powney |
| 1940-41 | Leslie Alfred Lickfold (1902-1967) |
| 1946-48 | Vernon Butcher (1909-1997) |
| 1949-50 | Thomas Hallford (1911-) |
| 1950-54 | Eric Alfred Coningsby (1909-) |
| 1955-57 | Kenneth Turner (1903-1959) |
| 1957-58 | E. Howard Fletcher (1933-) |
| 1958-74 | Robert Henry Joyce (1927-) |
| 1974-2000 | Michael John Smith |
| 2000-14 | Richard Moorhouse |
| 2014-16 | Jonathan Bielby (1944-) |
| 2016- | Stephen Moore |
| List of Assistant Organists | |
|---|---|
| 1894 | Arthur Charles Edwards (1869-1940) |
| Sydney Harcourt Rees (1870-1927) | |
| 1899-1902 | Frank A. Chapple (1881-1950) |
| 1939-40 | Ronald Wallace Charles (1919-) |
| 1950-67 | Vivian Anthony Lewis (1926-) |
| 1966-70 | Graham Elliott (1945-) |
| 1970-77 | Anthony Burns-Cox |
| 1977-78 | Mark Rochester (1954-) |
| 1980-2010 | Michael Hoeg |
| 2010-12 | James Norrey |
| 2012-13 | Sachin Gunga |