Richard Popplewell
Richard Popplewell LVO was an English organist and composer who served at the Chapel Royal.Background
He was born in Halifax, Yorkshire on 18 October 1935. He was educated at Clifton College.
He studied music at the Royal College of Music, and was organ scholar at King's College, Cambridge.
He was professor of Organ at the Royal College of Music.
He was appointed MVO in 1990 and promoted to LVO in 2000.Compositions
Choral Works
- There Is No Rose
- Two Final Amens
- O How Amiable are thy dwellings
- A Vast Cloud of Love
- I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes unto the Lord
Organ Works
- Suite for Organ
- Puck's Shadow
- Variations on a New Year's Carol
- Easter Hymn
- Chants d'oiseaux, des poules, des moutons et des vaches
- Elegy
- Organ Concerto in D
- Prelude on the Hymn Down Ampney
- Romance
- Triumphal March
- Te Deum in C
- Six Pieces
- Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D Flat
- A Feast of Fugues
- An Organ Concerto in F
Career
Assistant organist at
- St Paul's Cathedral 1958–1966
Organist of:
- St Michael, Cornhill 1966–1979
- Chapel Royal 1979–2000
