John Stainer

As an excellent organist and teacher Stainer came to be the organist at St. Paul's Cathedral in Tenbury and a Professor of music at Oxford. The majority of his compositions were self-admittedly amateurish at best though his anthems and other music for the church service are still used. Noteworthy compositions by Stainer include "The Crucifixion" and a "Sevenfold Amen." While at St. Paul's Stainer helped to reform the musical part of the service and the positions of persons in the choir. With assistance from predecessors who had also advocated some of these ideas, Stainer incre...