Reginald Tustin Baker

Reginald Tustin Baker FRCO (4 July 1900 – 18 December 1966) was an English organist, conductor, and composer.

Biography

Baker was born in 1900 in Gloucester, the son of Albert William Baker (b. 1860) and Emily Jane Tustin (1861–1918). He studied organ under Herbert Brewer at Gloucester Cathedral and became his assistant from 1920 to 1926, after fighting in the British Army during the First World War. His pupils included Ian Kellam. He died in December 1966 in Sheffield Cathedral following Evening Prayer.

His compositions include:

Evening Service in D
Communion Service in A flat
Anthems: At the Lord's High Feast, The Lord is my Shepherd, Bow thine ear, Be thou my Guardian.
Choral songs: Sleep Holy Babe, Christ was born on Christmas Day, Sing O Sing, I wandered lonely as a cloud.

↑ Who's Who in Music, Shaw Publishing, 1949-1950
1 2 3 Humphreys, Maggie; Evans, Robert (1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 17. ISBN 9780720123302. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
↑ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
↑ Pfitzinger, Scott (1 March 2017). Composer Genealogies: A Compendium of Composers, Their Teachers, and Their Students. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 277. ISBN 978-1-4422-7225-5.

Cultural offices

Preceded by

Organist and Master of the Choristers of Sheffield Cathedral
1937–1967

Succeeded by

Graham Matthews

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