Peter Aston (Composer)
Born: 5th October 1938, Birmingham, UK
Died: 13th September 2013, South Norfolk, UK
Nationality: English
Peter Aston was an English composer, academic and conductor best known for his choral works. Born in Birmingham, he studied at Birmingham School of Music and the University of York. In 1964, he became a lecturer in music in the University of York and in 1974 he was appointed professor of music in the University of East Anglia, where he subsequently became Emeritus Professor of composition.
Although best known for his liturgical choral works, his output included chamber works for voices and instruments, choral and orchestral works and an opera for children. He is probably best known for his Communion and Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis settings in F.
He founded the Norwich Festival of Contemporary Church Music and he was a Lay Canon of Norwich Cathedral. For fourteen years he was the conductor of the Aldeburgh Festival Singers.
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- Adam lay ibowndyn (1)
- Alleluia! Now may we myrthis make (1)
- Alleluya psallat (2)
- Author of life divine (1)
- Beloved, let us love (2)
- Eternal Grace (1)
- For I went with the multitude (2)
- Haec Dies (1)
- How lovely is your dwelling-place (2)
- I am the true vine (2)
- I sing of a maiden (1)
- Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in F (1)
- Make we joye (2)
- O be joyful in the Lord (2)
- O sing unto the Lord a new song (2)
- Service in G (1)
- So they gave their bodies (3)
- The King of Love (1)
- There is no rose (1)
- Tidings, tidings that be true (1)
- Where shall wisdom be found (2)
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