Conrad William Eden

Conrad William Eden (1905 – 1995) was an English cathedral organist, who served in Wells Cathedral and Durham Cathedral^[1]

He was born in 1905 in Alton, Hampshire, and was a chorister at Wells Cathedral. He won a scholarship to Rugby School, another to the Royal College of Music and an Exhibition which took him to St. John's College, Oxford, as College Organist. A short period as organist of St. Philip and St. James and Director of Music at the Dragon School, Oxford, ended with a fractured skull: after his recovery he went as as Assistant Organist at Wells Cathedral where in 1933 he was appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers. In 1936 he moved to Durham Cathedral.^[2]

Assistant organist of:

• Wells Cathedral 1927 - 1933

Organist of:

• Wells Cathedral 1933 - 1936
• Durham Cathedral 1936 - 1974

Cultural offices
Preceded by Revd. Canon Thomas Henry Davis	Organist and Master of the Choristers of Wells Cathedral 1933-1936	Succeeded by Denys Pouncey
Preceded by John Dykes Bower	Organist and Master of the Choristers of Durham Cathedral 1936-1974	Succeeded by Richard Lloyd

References

1. ^ The Succession of Organists. Watkins Shaw.
2. ^ Great Cathedral Organ Series (No. 9) Durham Cathedral, E.M.I. Records 

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Name	Eden, Conrad
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Date of birth	1905
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Date of death	1995
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