John Varley Roberts and Religious Musical Life in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 21 April 2026
- ISBN 9781032727844
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages294 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 700 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 26 Illustrations, black & white; 26 Halftones, black & white; 4 Tables, black & white 697
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Short description:
David Baker chronicles the extraordinary life and achievements of John Varley Roberts (1841-1920), a working-class Yorkshireman who became a popular composer and one of Victorian England's most celebrated choral trainers as well as Organist of Magdalen College, Oxford.
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David Baker chronicles the extraordinary life and achievements of John Varley Roberts (1841-1920), a working-class Yorkshireman who became a popular composer and one of Victorian England's most celebrated choral trainers as well as Organist of Magdalen College, Oxford.
Roberts’ influence was considerable and enduring at a time when church music was undergoing a significant transformation in Britain. Roberts influenced generations of choristers, musicians, and choir directors, sitting alongside John Stainer and Walter Parratt as one of the greats of his generation. During his long tenure of office at Magdalen (1883-1918), the choir was widely regarded as the very best in the country and beyond. He was a prolific and popular composer and wrote forty anthems, four complete services, organ solos, songs, part songs, and the cantata Jonah. His anthem ‘Seek ye the Lord’ remains popular internationally in countries as diverse as the USA and Japan. His compositions form a valuable indicator of taste and fashion, music making and publishing of the time. Roberts’ life, work and achievements are considered in the context of changes in Anglican Church music, and especially the rise of cathedral-type services, alongside educational and societal developments in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
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List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1 ‘Surrounded by Music from the First‘: Early life, education, career
2 ‘A most singular man’: First years at Halifax
3 ‘Such a state of perfection’: A cathedral choir
4 ‘Indefatigable thoroughness and tenacity of purpose’: Move to Magdalen
5 ‘Og, King of Basan’: Roberts as Informator Choristarum
6 ‘Splendid service to the cause of music’: In the university
7 ‘All the rest’s humbug’: Choir trainer of the highest rank
8 ‘Rare discrimination and taste’: Roberts the organist
9 ‘Sung in almost every Cathedral in England’: Roberts the composer
10 ‘The end of an era’: Later years, death, legacy
Appendix A1 List of compositions and other works by John Varley Roberts
Appendix A2 Some principal singers at Halifax Parish Church
Appendix A3 Some of Roberts’ organ students
Appendix A4 Testimonial writers for the Edinburgh application
Appendix A5 Organ ‘openings’ by Roberts
Bibliography
Index
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