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Edmund Horace Fellowes (11 November 1870 – 21 December 1951), was a
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clergyman and musical scholar who became well known for his work in promoting the revival of sixteenth and seventeenth century English music.


Life and work

Fellowes was born in
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, London, on 11 November 1870, the fifth child of Horace Decimus Fellowes, assistant director of the
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, and his wife Louisa Emily, daughter of Edmund Packe, a captain in the
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. Fellowes showed musical ability at an early age and in 1878 received an offer from
Joseph Joachim Joseph Joachim (28 June 1831 – 15 August 1907) was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher who made an international career, based in Hanover and Berlin. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely regarded as one of ...
to become his violin pupil; the offer was not taken up and Fellowes went to
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. He studied as an undergraduate at
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, from 1889 to 1892, taking a fourth class in theology and becoming a
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and
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in 1896. Fellowes became an ordained deacon in 1894 and priest in 1895, and held a curacy in Wandsworth, after which he became precentor of
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in 1897. On 12 January 1899 he married Lilian Louisa, a daughter of Admiral Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton. He was a minor canon of
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from 1900 to 1951, and from 1924 to 1927, he was in charge of the choir following the death of the conductor Sir Walter Parratt. Fellowes' passion for mid-16th century – mid-17th century music led him to edit thirty-six volumes of
madrigal A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th c.) and early Baroque (1600–1750) periods, although revisited by some later European composers. The polyphonic madrigal is unaccompanied, and the number o ...
s, thirty-two volumes of
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s, and twenty volumes of
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's music. He was one of the editors of ''Tudor Church Music'', ten volumes published by Oxford University Press in the 1920s with the support of the
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. His work covered not only the music, but important biographical and critical writing such as ''The English Madrigal Composers'', published in 1921 and ''William Byrd'', published in 1936. Fellowes was honorary librarian of St. Michael's College, Tenbury from 1918 until 1948, and during this time he arranged and catalogued the musical library of Sir Frederick Ouseley. He was succeeded in this post by
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. Fellowes' works were recognised by his ''alma mater'' and he was appointed an
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of Oriel in 1937, he also received
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in music from
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in 1917,
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in 1939, and
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in 1950. Fellowes was interested in cricket, and in 1930, he published ''History of Winchester Cricket''. He was appointed a
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in 1931 and in 1944 he became a
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. He was president of the Musical Association from 1942 until 1947, where he aided them secure a Royal affiliation, and president of the Church Music Society from 1946 until 1951, following on from Archbishop Lang. Fellowes died at 12 Clarence Road, Clewer Within, Windsor, on 21 December 1951. Fellowes' editions of English Tudor church music represent a very significant contribution to 20th Century musical scholarship, bringing to new prominence composers such as Byrd and
Orlando Gibbons Orlando Gibbons ( bapt. 25 December 1583 – 5 June 1625) was an English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School. The best known member of a musical famil ...
, whose work was thus made accessible to composers and scholars, notably
Ralph Vaughan Williams Ralph Vaughan Williams, (; 12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over ...
, whose revision of
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was influenced by study of these themes in Fellowes' editions.Vaughan Williams Studies
Alain Frogley] He lectured extensively on the subject, travelling numerous times to the United States for this purpose. His was the foremost work in the Anglican Tudor revival of the early 20th Century. Other interests included cricket, writing ''A History of Winchester Cricket'', and music performance, titling his memoirs the ''Memoirs of an Amateur Musician''.


Publications

* Appendix with Supplementary Notes * English Cathedral Music, 1941, revised J. A. Westrup – Publisher: London, Methuen, 1969. * English Cathedral Music from Edward VI of England, Edward the Sixth to
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* English
Madrigal A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th c.) and early Baroque (1600–1750) periods, although revisited by some later European composers. The polyphonic madrigal is unaccompanied, and the number o ...
Composers * English
Madrigal A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th c.) and early Baroque (1600–1750) periods, although revisited by some later European composers. The polyphonic madrigal is unaccompanied, and the number o ...
School * English
Madrigal A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th c.) and early Baroque (1600–1750) periods, although revisited by some later European composers. The polyphonic madrigal is unaccompanied, and the number o ...
Verse, 1588–1632 * English School of Lutenist Song Writers – Publisher: Boston : Music Library Association, c1984. *
Orlando Gibbons Orlando Gibbons ( bapt. 25 December 1583 – 5 June 1625) was an English composer and keyboard player who was one of the last masters of the English Virginalist School and English Madrigal School. The best known member of a musical famil ...
and His Family: The Last of the Tudor School of Musicians * Tudor Church Music *
William Byrd William Byrd (; 4 July 1623) was an English composer of late Renaissance music. Considered among the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he had a profound influence on composers both from his native England and those on the continent. He ...
– English Church Music, Vol. 1 *
William Byrd William Byrd (; 4 July 1623) was an English composer of late Renaissance music. Considered among the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he had a profound influence on composers both from his native England and those on the continent. He ...
: A Short Account of His Life and Work * The Knights of the Garter, 1348–1939: With a Complete List of the Stall Plates in St. Georges Chapel.
Historical monographs relating to St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle The historical monographs relating to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle are a series of scholarly publications supported by the Dean and Canons of Windsor. Much of the scholarship is based on the material held in the archives at St. George’s C ...
Volume 1. (SPCK – 1939) * Organists and Masters of the Choristers of St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.
Historical monographs relating to St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle The historical monographs relating to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle are a series of scholarly publications supported by the Dean and Canons of Windsor. Much of the scholarship is based on the material held in the archives at St. George’s C ...
Volume 3. (1939) * The Military Knights of Windsor, 1352–1944.
Historical monographs relating to St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle The historical monographs relating to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle are a series of scholarly publications supported by the Dean and Canons of Windsor. Much of the scholarship is based on the material held in the archives at St. George’s C ...
Volume 4. (1944) * The Vicars Or Minor Canons of His Majesty's Free Chapel of St. George in Windsor.
Historical monographs relating to St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle The historical monographs relating to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle are a series of scholarly publications supported by the Dean and Canons of Windsor. Much of the scholarship is based on the material held in the archives at St. George’s C ...
Volume 5. (1945) * The Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers of St George's Chapel, Windsor
Historical monographs relating to St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle The historical monographs relating to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle are a series of scholarly publications supported by the Dean and Canons of Windsor. Much of the scholarship is based on the material held in the archives at St. George’s C ...
Volume 10., (1957).


Correspondence

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, maintains a collection of his papers that includes a letter to his mother relating his eyewitness account of
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's funeral, his work on Tudor Church Music, letters from
Adrian Boult Sir Adrian Cedric Boult, CH (; 8 April 1889 – 22 February 1983) was an English conductor. Brought up in a prosperous mercantile family, he followed musical studies in England and at Leipzig, Germany, with early conducting work in London ...
,
Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestr ...
,
Gustav Holst Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite ''The Planets'', he composed many other works across a range ...
,
Herbert Howells Herbert Norman Howells (17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983) was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music. Life Background and early education Howells was born in Lydney, Gloucest ...
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Hubert Parry Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet (27 February 18487 October 1918) was an English composer, teacher and historian of music. Born in Richmond Hill in Bournemouth, Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is b ...
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John Stainer Sir John Stainer (6 June 1840 – 31 March 1901) was an English composer and organist whose music, though seldom performed today (with the exception of ''The Crucifixion'', still heard at Passiontide in some churches of the Anglican Communi ...
,
Charles Villiers Stanford Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (30 September 1852 – 29 March 1924) was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic music, Romantic era. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was ed ...
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Leopold Stokowski Leopold Anthony Stokowski (18 April 1882 – 13 September 1977) was a British conductor. One of the leading conductors of the early and mid-20th century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra and his appeara ...
,
Ralph Vaughan Williams Ralph Vaughan Williams, (; 12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over ...
,
Henry Walford Davies Sir Henry Walford Davies (6 September 1869 – 11 March 1941) was an English composer, organist, and educator who held the title Master of the King's Music from 1934 until 1941. He served with the Royal Air Force during the First World War, dur ...
, and
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. The St George's Chapel Archives, Windsor Castle, maintains several collections, including letters to him from Sir
Henry Walford Davies Sir Henry Walford Davies (6 September 1869 – 11 March 1941) was an English composer, organist, and educator who held the title Master of the King's Music from 1934 until 1941. He served with the Royal Air Force during the First World War, dur ...
1924–1930,
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1931 and C. Hylton Stewart 1929; the Fellowes Collection, including his private papers and ephemera from his life and work at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle; and a collection of gramophone recordings and sheet music belonging to Fellowes. Other records of his work on the monograph series and as a minor canon of Windsor are available. The
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: Music Library on Broad Street, Oxford maintains correspondence including letters to
Frederick Ouseley Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, 2nd Baronet (12 August 18256 April 1889) was an English composer, organist, musicologist and priest. Biography Frederick Ouseley was born in London, the son of Sir Gore Ouseley, and manifested an extraordinary ...
, formerly "The Tenbury Collection" at St. Michael's College, Tenbury.


References

* Shaw, Watkins, 'Fellowes, Edmund Horace (1870–1951)', rev., ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'',
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, 2004. Online database article number 33103.
The Fellowes Collection
at
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.
Collections of Edmund Horace Fellowes, Minor Canon of Windsor
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St George's Chapel Archives


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fellowes, Edmund 1870 births 1951 deaths British classical musicians Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour Members of the Royal Victorian Order