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Anthony Caesar

Short Name: Anthony Caesar
Full Name: Caesar, Anthony
Birth Year: 1924

Wikipedia Biography

Anthony Douglass Caesar CVO FRCO (3 April 1924 – 14 July 2018) was an English priest, organist and composer. Caesar was a boy chorister in the Winchester Cathedral Choir under Harold Rhodes, who directed choir rehearsals in the short street known as "Dome Alley", the title later on of one of Caesar's hymn tunes. He studied music at Magdalene College, Cambridge where he was a music scholar and trained for the Anglican priesthood at St Stephen's House, Oxford. From 3 August 1979 to 1 August 1991 he was Subdean of the Chapels Royal (having previously been Canon Precentor and Vice-Dean of Winchester Cathedral). During this period he was also the music editor of the New English Hymnal. In the 1991 Queen's Birthday Honours he was promoted to Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO), having

Tunes by Anthony Caesar (4)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
CORNWALL (Wesley)A. D. C. (Composer (descant))135321 17653 21436
DOME ALLEYAnthony Caesar, b. 1924 (Composer)145667 16645 67127
NEWTOWN ST. LUKEAnthony Caesar, b. 1924 (Composer)2
WESSEX (Surplice)A. D. C. (Composer (descant))151234 54323 33212

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