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Healey Willan
CC
Willan in 1918
Born
James Healey Willan

(1880-10-12)12 October 1880
London, England
Died16 February 1968(1968-02-16) (aged 87)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Occupations
  • Organist
  • composer

James Healey Willan CC (12 October 1880 – 16 February 1968) was an English and Canadian organist and composer. He composed more than 800 works including operas, symphonies, chamber music, a concerto, and pieces for band, orchestra, organ, and piano. He is best known for his church music.

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James Healey Willan CC (12 October 1880 – 16 February 1968) was an English and Canadian organist and composer. He composed more than 800 works including...

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Willan

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Frank Willan (rower) (1846–1931), English rower and Militia officer Healey Willan (1880–1968), Anglo-Canadian organist and composer Jason Willan, American...

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Healey

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Healey may refer to: Chadwyck-Healey baronets, an English baronetcy seated in Surrey Healey (surname), people with the surname Healey Healey Willan (1880-1968)...

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1880 in music

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September 27 – Jacques Thibaud, French violinist (d. 1953) October 12 – Healey Willan, English-born Canadian composer (d. 1968) November 2 John Foulds, English-born...

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Vancouver Cantata Singers

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early 1970s when James Fankhauser began to lead the group, winning the Healey Willan Grand Prize in 1984 and a Juno Award nomination for Best Classical Album...

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Coronation of Elizabeth II

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Walton composed a setting for the Te Deum, and the Canadian composer Healey Willan wrote an anthem O Lord our Governor. Four new orchestral pieces were...

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Anglican Church of Canada

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hymnists include Derek Holman, Gordon Light, Herbert O'Driscoll, and Healey Willan. For a time, beginning in the early 1970s, many Anglican congregations...

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List of Canadian musicians

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singer-songwriter (daughter of David Wilcox) JJ Wilde – rock singer Healey Willan – organist, composer Hal Willis – singer-songwriter Charlotte Day Wilson...

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Adoro te devote

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for organ, 1908), Cecilia McDowall (2016), Carlo Pedini (2021) and Healey Willan (chorale prelude, 1954). Until the first half of the nineteenth century...

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Ulster Cycle

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adaptation of the Ulster Cycle composed 1943-5, by the Canadian composer, Healey Willan, the text by John Coulter. It was the first full-length opera commissioned...

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List of organists

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(1893–1973) Theodore Frederic Molt (1795–1856) Charles Peaker (1899–1978) Healey Willan (1880–1968) František Xaver Brixi (1732–1771) Bohuslav Matej Cernohorsky...

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Deirdre of the Sorrows

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which received several performances in England and the United States. Healey Willan's opera Deirdre was initially written for Canadian Radio in 1945 and...

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Wayne Riddell

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more than 30 years. Under his leadership, the choir won the inaugural Healey Willan Prize for choral performance from the Canada Council for the Arts. In...

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List of people from Toronto

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overall draft pick in 2014 Brian Wilks (born 1966) – NHL hockey player Healey Willan – composer Elyse Willems – internet personality, comedian, writer Angel...

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List of Anglican church composers

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Weelkes John Weldon Samuel Wesley Samuel Sebastian Wesley Alfred Wheeler Healey Willan Michael Wise Charles Wood Richard Woodward Judith Weir Errollyn Wallen...

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Dorothy James

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continued her studies with Howard Hanson at Eastman School of Music, Healey Willan at the Toronto Conservatory, and Ernst Krenek at the University of Michigan...

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University of Toronto

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and MacDonald) have been set designers at the theatre, and composer Healey Willan was director of music for 14 productions. The theatre also hosts annual...

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List of people on the postage stamps of Canada

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Ware (cowboy) (2012) Robert Stanley Weir (1980) Percy Williams (1996) Healey Willan (1980) James Wolfe (1908) Fay Wray (2006) Marie-Marguerite d'Youville...

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I was glad

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1933: Herbert Howells. 1955: S. Drummond Wolff 1957: Robin Orr 1962: Healey Willan 1971: Peter Hallock Christianity portal Laetare Sunday, which uses a...

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Canadian classical music

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organists include Eric Robertson, Gerald Bales, François Brassard, and Healey Willan. There are also several well-known Canadian organ builders, including...

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Frederick Harris Music

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work of composers including Boris Berlin, Sir Ernest MacMillan, and Healey Willan. In addition to repertoire for piano, guitar, violin, flute and voice...

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Canadian Guards

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2014). This Awareness of Beauty: The Orchestral and Wind Band Music of Healey Willan. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. ISBN 9781554589616. "Canadian Guards hold...

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List of composers by name

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Wilhelmine of Prussia (1709–1758) Adrian Willaert (c. 1490 – 1562) Healey Willan (1880–1968) David Willcocks (1919–2015) Grace Williams (1906–1977) John...

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Guild Park and Gardens

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Toronto Conservatory of Music Building (1897) copper bas-reliefs of Healey Willan and Ernest MacMillan two entrance headers Toronto Engine House No. 2...

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