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Jonathan Bielby
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Jonathan Leonard Bielby MBE (born 23 November 1944) is an English cathedral organist and composer of organ music. In 2010 he retired from Wakefield Cathedral after an exceptionally long incumbency, which had lasted more than forty years. Life: Son of Leonard Bielby, of Old Woodstock, Oxfordshire, and Helen Joyce, daughter of Rev. Percy John Grubb, a Methodist minister at Knutsford and Haworth in Yorkshire, from an Irish gentry family, Bielby was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford, where he studied under Bernard Rose, and at St John's College, Cambridge (BA 1966, MusB 1967, MA 1970), where between 1963 and 1967 his musical activities included a stint as the organ scholar, under the musical direction of George Guest. Having served as assistant organist at Manchester Cathedral from 1966 to 1970, Bielby took up his post as organist and director of music at Wakefield in 1970. Bielby oversaw the rebuilding of the Willis organ in Huddersfield Town Hall and of the massive Compton organ in Wakefield Cathedral itself. He was also the first borough organist of Kirklees, West Yorkshire from 1974 to 1988, during which time he gave recitals at Huddersfield Town Hall and elsewhere. Bielby was a senior lecturer at the City of Leeds College of Music from 1979. Bielby has composed a significant body of church and organ music, including "Love's Endeavour, Love's Expense" and "Let the roring organs loudly play". Awards and honours: In 2011 he was appointed MBE. User-contributed tex
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Romantic Music of Yesteryear / The Organ of Huddersfield Town Hall
Romantic Music of Yesteryear
Great European Organs No.21: Rochdale Town Hall
Great European Organs, Vol. 21: Rochdale Town Hall
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Jonathan Bielby: Seven Last Words from the Cross and Other Choral Works
Jonathan Bielby: Organ Collection
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The World of Psalms
The Organ Works (Performed on the Organs of Wakefield Cathedral)
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The Complete Psalms of David, Series 2, Volume 7
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Great European Organs No.21
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Romantic Music of Yesteryear / The Organ of Huddersfield Town Hall [ALBUM]
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40 Years at Wakefield