Charles Hancock FRCO (4 January 1852 – 6 February 1927) was an organist and composer based in
England
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.
Life
His early musical education was as a chorister in the choir of
St George's Chapel, Windsor
St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is both a Royal Peculiar (a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch) and the Chapel of the Order of the Gart ...
. He was awarded his FRCO in 1872 and graduated from Oxford University in 1874.
In Leicester he was the conductor of the Leicester New Musical Society.
He died on 6 February 1927, a few weeks before the church was upgraded to cathedral status.
Appointments
*Organist of St. Mary's Church, Datchet, Windsor
*Organist of St. Andrew's Church, Uxbridge
*Assistant organist of
St George's Chapel, Windsor
St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is both a Royal Peculiar (a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch) and the Chapel of the Order of the Gart ...
*Organist of
St. Martin's Church, Leicester 1875
[Leicester Journal - Friday 28 May 1875] - 1927
Compositions
He composed works for choir and organ.
References
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1852 births
1927 deaths
English organists
British male organists
English composers
Fellows of the Royal College of Organists