Basil Harwood

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Basil Harwood (11 April 1859–3 April 1949) was an English organist and composer.

He was born in Woodhouse, Gloucestershire (the youngest son of 12 children) and educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Oxford. After a further year's study in Leipzig he became organist of St. Barnabas Church, Pimlico, moving to Ely Cathedral in 1887. His final appointment was at Christ Church, Oxford from 1892 to 1909. Whilst there he co-founded and conducted the Oxford Bach Choir.

He composed cantatas, church music and works for organ; his Service in A flat, the anthem O how glorious and the hymn tunes Luckington ("Let all the world in every corner sing") and Thornbury ("Thy hand O God has guided") remain in the Anglican repertory.

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Jeremy Dibble, "Harwood, Basil (1859-1949)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33749 accessed 1 Feb 2005