Short Name: | Martin Shaw |
Full Name: | Shaw, Martin, 1875–1958 |
Birth Year: | 1875 |
Death Year: | 1958 |
Martin F. Shaw was educated at the Royal College of Music in London and was organist and choirmaster at St. Mary's, Primrose Hill (1908-1920), St. Martin's in the Fields (1920-1924), and the Eccleston Guild House (1924-1935). From 1935 to 1945 he served as music director for the diocese of Chelmsford. He established the Purcell Operatic Society and was a founder of the Plainsong and Medieval Society and what later became the Royal Society of Church Music.
Author of The Principles of English Church Music Composition (1921), Shaw was a notable reformer of English church music. He worked with Percy Dearmer (his rector at St. Mary's in Primrose Hill); Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his brother Geoffrey Shaw in publishing hymnals such as Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). A leader in the revival of English opera and folk music scholarship, Shaw composed some one hundred songs as well as anthems and service music; some of his best hymn tunes were published in his Additional Tunes in Use at St. Mary's (1915).
Bert Polman
Texts by Martin Shaw (2) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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From age to age they gather, all the brave of heart and strong | Martin Shaw (Author) | English | 1 |
The first good joy that Mary had | Martin Fallas Shaw (Author) | English | 1 |