Dates

• Existence: 1840 - 1901

Biography

Sir John Stainer (1840-1901), knight, organist and composer, was born on 6 June 1840 at 2 Broadway, Southwark, London. After completing organ lessons at the church of the Holy Sepulchre with George Cooper, he was offered an appointment in 1854 at the Wren church of St Benet Paul's Wharf, and in 1856 he became second organist of the College of St Michael's and All Angels, Tenbury. He also studied for his BMus, which, after matriculating at Christ Church, Oxford, on 26 May 1859, he gained on 10 June 1859. Stainer became organist and informator choristarum at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1860, and accepted the post of university organist at the church of St Mary the Virgin in 1861. He took the degrees of BA (1864), DMus (1865), and MA (1866), at St Edmund Hall. Stainer became organist of St Paul's Cathedral in 1872 and was appointed professor of organ and harmony, followed by the position of principal, of the National Training School in 1873. He was appointed to the Oxford professorship in 1889. He died in Verona on 31 March 1901.

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