Sir Ivor Algernon Atkins
(29 November 1869 –
26 November 1953)
was the choirmaster and organist at Worcester Cathedral
for over 50 years. He is best known for
inserting the famous top-C part for the
treble in
Allegri's
Miserere.
Born into
a Welsh musical family at Llandaff
, Atkins
graduated with a bachelor of music degree from The Queen's
College, Oxford
in 1892, and subsequently obtained a Doctorate in
Music. He was organist of St Laurence
Church, Ludlow
from 1893 to 1897.
Knighted in 1921 for services to music, Atkins was President of the
Royal College of
Organists from 1935 to 1936.
He died in Worcester
.
He was a friend of
Edward Elgar, who in
1904 dedicated the third of his
Pomp and Circumstance Marches
to Atkins.
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