Frank Pullein ARCO (1871 - 1 March 1954) was an organist and composer based in
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
.
Life
He was born in 1871, the son of William Pullein and Hannah Rose. His father was a Professor of Music.
His three brothers,
William Rose Pullein
William Rose Pullein (1865 – 8 November 1945) was an organist and composer based in England.
Life
He was born in 1865, the son of William Pullein and Hannah Rose. His father was a Professor of Music and his maternal grandfather, William Ro ...
,
John Pullein
John Pullein FRCO (b. 1878) was an organist and composer based in England.
Life
He was born in Lincoln in 1878, the son of William Pullein and Hannah Rose. His father was a Professor of Music.
His three younger brothers, William Rose Pullein, ...
and
Ernest Pullein were also organists.
He was in the choir of Lincoln Cathedral as a boy, and then an articled pupil of
John Matthew Wilson Young
John Matthew Wilson Young (17 December 1822; Durham – 4 March 1897; Lincoln) was an English organist. He was elder brother to William James Young (1835; Durham - 1913; Lancashire), also a well-known English organist. John M.W. Young was buried in ...
and then assistant organist.
He moved to Wrexham in 1895 where he stayed until his death in 1954.
Appointments
*Assistant organist at
Lincoln Cathedral
Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln Minster, or the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lincoln and sometimes St Mary's Cathedral, in Lincoln, England, is a Grade I listed cathedral and is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Lincoln. Constructio ...
1893 - 1894
[Dictionary of Organs and Organists, 1912]
*Organist of
St Giles' Church, Wrexham 1895 - 1954
Compositions
He composed:
*A Solemn March 1904
References
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1871 births
1954 deaths
English organists
British male organists
English composers