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Born April 27, 1821 • London • England
Died February 11, 1901 (aged 79) • London • England

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G. Donald Harrison
American organ designer
Bernard Smith
British organ maker
Thomas Dallam
English organ maker
Renatus Harris
European organ maker
Robert Hope-Jones
British-American organ maker
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
British composer
William Boyce
British composer
Sir Hugh Allen, drawing by John Singer Sargent, 1925; in the British Museum
Sir Hugh Allen
British organist and musical educator
Sir Walter Parratt
British musician
Aristide Cavaillé-Coll
French organ maker
Johann Andreas Stein
German piano craftsman
Arp Schnitger
German organ maker
David Tannenberg
American organ maker
Gottfried Silbermann
German instrument manufacturer
George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel
German-English composer
William Byrd
William Byrd
English composer
portrait of Charles Burney
Charles Burney
British musician and historian
Blow, John
John Blow
English musician
Thomas Weelkes
English composer
Orlando Gibbons
English composer