Ivor Atkins

Ivor Atkins

Sir Ivor 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 Oxford University in 1892, and subsequently obtained a Doctorate in Music. 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.

External links

* [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?name=&search=as&desc=&grp=18%3BMusicians&lDate=&LinkID=mp63750&occ=&eDate=&medium=&rNo=0&role=sit National Portrait Gallery image]
* [http://www.thisisworcester.co.uk/worcestershire/worcester/news/WEN_NEWS_FEATURES_JOURNEY_ARCH_A21.html Local newspaper obituary]
* [http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Nov02/Ivor_Atkins.htm Biography by grand-nephew]


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