Nicholas Danby

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Nicholas Danby (19 June 1935 – 15 June 1997)[1] was a British organist, composer and academic teacher. He was a great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens and nephew of Monica Dickens. Danby did secondary studies at Beaumont College, Old Windsor. He was apprenticed to the Belgian Guy Weitz [de], who was organist of the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, in Mayfair, London. Danby succeeded him in this position, where he re-founded a professional choir and remained until his death. From 1963 to 1965 he was also Director of Music at Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon. Danby taught the organ at the Royal College of Music and the Royal Academy of Music and was head of the organ department of the latter from 1989 to 1996.[4][6] Among his students were Robert Costin, Paul Hale, Patrick Russill, Roger Sayer, Paul Trepte and Andrew Wilson-Dickson. He also was an internationally renowned organ recitalist and was a jury member at international competitions. He recorded organ works by Dieterich Buxtehude on the Baroque organ at St Laurents in Alkmaar. His "Bach Organ Works" recording (SMK 64239) for Sony Classical Records was very well received by Gramophone: "Danby's registrations are clearly designed to give a comprehensive picture of the instrument's tonal resources […]. His performances are thoroughly rewarding; sensitive but never overindulgent in the smaller pieces, strong, enormously self-assured in the larger works." He recorded the complete organ works by Johan

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