Noble, (Thomas) Tertius
Noble, (Thomas) Tertius
Noble, (Thomas) Tertius, English organist and composer, uncle of Ray(mond Stanley) Noble; b. Bath, May 5, 1867; d. Rockport, Mass., May 4, 1953. He studied organ with Parratt at the Royal Coll. of Music in London, where he also took courses in music theory with Bridge and Stanford. He was subsequently employed as a church organist in Colchester and Cambridge. In 1898 he organized the York Sym. Orch., which he conducted until 1912. He then emigrated to America and served as organist at St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church in N.Y. until 1947; he gave his final organ recital, playing his own works, in N.Y. on Feb. 26, 1947. He publ. The Training of the Boy Chorister (N.Y, 1943).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis Mclntire
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