Geoffrey Bush was a British composer, organist and scholar of 19th century English music. Geoffrey Bush was born in London, became a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral at the age of 8 and studied informally with the composer John Ireland. He moved on to Lancing College and completed his education at Balliol College, Oxford, as Nettleship Scholar and Masefield Memorial Student in Music, graduating BMus (1940) and DMus (1946); he also received an MA in classics in 1947.

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  • Geoffrey Bush was a British composer, organist and scholar of 19th century English music. Geoffrey Bush was born in London, became a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral at the age of 8 and studied informally with the composer John Ireland. He moved on to Lancing College and completed his education at Balliol College, Oxford, as Nettleship Scholar and Masefield Memorial Student in Music, graduating BMus (1940) and DMus (1946); he also received an MA in classics in 1947. During the Second World War he registered as a conscientious objector, serving as Assistant Warden at the Hostel of the Good Shepherd in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, 1941-1945. Bush taught music initially in the University of Oxford and in the University of London from 1952 for the rest of his career. He wrote extensively on English music, and also had a strong interest in editing and arranging, especially of neglected English composers. His compositions, which included 5 operas, 2 symphonies, choral pieces such as his Christmas Cantata and many songs, generally in the lieder style, are rarely performed and few recordings exist. Bush died in London from prostate cancer.
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  • Geoffrey Bush was a British composer, organist and scholar of 19th century English music. Geoffrey Bush was born in London, became a chorister at Salisbury Cathedral at the age of 8 and studied informally with the composer John Ireland. He moved on to Lancing College and completed his education at Balliol College, Oxford, as Nettleship Scholar and Masefield Memorial Student in Music, graduating BMus (1940) and DMus (1946); he also received an MA in classics in 1947.
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  • Geoffrey Bush
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