Gerald Hendrie

Gerald Hendrie
Background information
Birth name	Gerald Mills Hendrie
Born	(1935-10-28) 28 October 1935 Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK
Genres	Classical
Occupation(s)	Academic, musicologist, composer
Instrument(s)	Organ, piano, harpsichord

Gerald Mills Hendrie, (born 28 October 1935; at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex), is an English scholar, composer, organist, pianist and harpsichordist.

Education

• Framlingham College, Suffolk, 1949–52, Foundation Scholar
• Royal College of Music (RCM), 1952–54, Foundation Scholar, Piano (ARCM in Organ Performing 1953, Piano Teaching 1953, Piano Performing 1954); Gained Sir Walter Parratt prize.
• Selwyn College, Cambridge 1954–61, Organ Scholar. (BA 1957, MusB with distinction 1958, MA 1961, Ph.D. 1962);
• Royal College of Organists (RCO), FRCO (1956)
• Studied at the RCM with Geoffrey Tankard, Harold Darke, William Harris, Herbert Howells; at Cambridge with Thurston Dart and Patrick Hadley; privately with Geraint Jones, John Dykes Bower, Ralph Downes, and André Marchal

Locums

• Christmas 1955, Acting Assistant Organist, Canterbury Cathedral including first-ever Eurovision

Broadcast, ‘Carols from Canterbury’.

• 1960-61 Acting Organist and Choirmaster, Norwich Cathedral
• During 1962, Acting Assistant Organist, Ely Cathedral

Academic posts

• Director of Music, Homerton College, Cambridge 1962-3
• Lecturer in Music, University of Manchester 1963-7
• Founding Professor of Music, University of Victoria, British Columbia 1967-69
• Founding Professor of Music, Open University 1969-85 (early retirement)
• Director of Studies in Music, St John's College, Cambridge 1980-83
• Visiting Fellow, University of Western Australia 1985 (following earlier visits)

Publications (articles & editions)

• An Edition and Critical Study of the Keyboard Music of Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625), 2 vols., doctoral dissertation University of Cambridge October 1961
• The Keyboard Music of Orlando Gibbons in Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association vol. 89, 1962/63
• Handel's 'Chandos' and Associated Anthems: An Introductory Survey in ed. Peter Williams, Bach, Handel, Scarlatti 1685-1985, Tercentenary Essays, Cambridge University Press 1985
• Half-way Towards the 21 st Century: Music at Britain's Open University 1970-85 in International

Journal of Music Education May 1985

• Some Reflections on the Keyboard Music of Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) in Studies in Music, Number 22, 1988, University of Western Australia Department of Music
• The English Lute-Songs 1st Series, vol. 17, co-editor with Thurston Dart of John Coprario: Funeral Teares, Songs of Mourning, The Masque of Squires Stainer & Bell 1959
• Musica Britannica XX, Orlando Gibbons: Keyboard Music (= Collected Keyboard Music) Stainer & Bell for the Royal Musical Association 1962, 2nd revised edition 1974, 3rd revised edition 2010
• Hallische Händel-Ausgabe/Halle Handel Society, Collected Works of Georg Friedrich Händel, Anthems für Cannons 3 vols. Bärenreiter 1985, 1987, 1991; Anthems für die Chapel Royal Bärenreiter 1994, Utrecht Te Deum & Jubilate Bärenreiter 1998
• Gilbert & Sullivan: The Operas (critical editions in full score) Iolanthe 3 vols., The Broude Trust NY 2018; Iolanthe vocal score, The Broude Trust 2019

Publications (compositions)

Piano

• Five Bagatelles for Piano Stainer & Bell 1980
• Four Excursions for Piano Stainer & Bell 1983
• Sonata: In Praise of Reconciliation (an arrangement of Organ Sonata, commemorates 50th anniversary of end of WW2) Anglo-American, henceforth AAMP 1997
• A Handful of Rags Gérard Billaudot Editeur, Paris 2015
• Another Handful of Rags Gérard Billaudot Editeur, Paris 2015

Organ

• Speculo Petro AAMP 1968
• Choral: Hommage à César Franck AAMP 1990
• Le Tombeau de Marcel Dupré (= Toccata & Fugue*, Prelude & Fugue, Prelude & Fugue on the name BACH, Two Sketches on the name BACH, published individually) AAMP 1990-92
• recorded by John Scott, Church of St. Ignatius Loyola NY, 20th-Century Masterpieces Priory records 1998, Gabriel Dessauer at St Bonifatius, Wiesbaden (GEMA 1999) and Paul Carr at St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham UK, French Flavours, Regent Records 2012); also on YouTube from Washington Cathedral, USA.
• Sonata: In Praise of St Asaph (commissioned by St Asaph Festival, UK) AAMP 1994
• Sonata: In Praise of Reconciliation (a US commission; see also above, Piano) AAMP 1997

Flute & Piano

• Three Pieces AAMP 1985

Brass

• Quintet for Brass (for the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble) AAMP 1988

Church Music

• As I outrode this endris night (i) carol for SS, organ or piano Novello 1959; recorded by the cathedral choirs of Canterbury, York Minster, Carlisle; also by Selwyn College, Cambridge & others (ii) for SATB Novello 1978; this version for the Service of Nine Lessons & * Carols, King's College Cambridge.
• Sweet was the Song the Virgin Sang, carol for SS, Organ/Piano Novello 1960
• There is no Rose, carol for SATB, Novello 1984, recorded by Lichfield Cathedral Choir, Nimbus Records 1996
• Four Consolations (texts by Boethius) for SATB unacc. Paraclete 1996
• Ave verum Corpus for ATB/SATB unacc. Williams School of Church Music 1978, subsequently AAMP
• If thou wouldst see God's laws, SATB, organ or piano AAMP 1988
• Preces and Responses, SATB, for St John's College, Cambridge AAMP 1980s
• Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis, SATB, organ, for St John's College, Cambridge AAMP 1986
• Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis, SATB, organ, for New College, Oxford AAMP 1986
• Te Deum & Jubilate, men's voices and organ, for St Paul's Cathedral, London AAMP 1998
• Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis boy's voices and organ, for St Paul's Cathedral, London AAMP 1988
• Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis, SATB, organ, for Canterbury Cathedral AAMP 1993
• Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis, ATB, organ, for Canterbury Cathedral AAMP 1994
• Requiem for soprano solo, SATB and organ, optional timpani (3), cello (premiered in Auch Festival, France) AAMP 1997

Unpublished/unsubmitted

• Missa Aquitaniae for soprano solo, SATB, organ (premiered in Auch Festival, 2003
• Sounat Campanetos carol for SATB, Gascon & English texts, 2005
• Twelve New Rags for Piano (four of which are arranged for organ) (2015–19)
• Pastorale & Fughetta & Chaconne for organ (2018–20)
• Concert Studies Nos. 1-3 for organ for Andrea Albertin (2021)
• Concert Studies Nos. 4-6 for organ for Tom Winpenny (2022-2023)
• Sicilienne: Hommage à Maurice Duruflé for Tom Winpenny (2022)

Performance

• He has performed as organist, pianist and harpsichordist around the world and broadcast for ABC, BBC, CBC.
• Guest recitalist at the Halle Handel Festival 1981.

Recordings

• Gerald Hendrie Complete Organ Music Volume 1 (comprising Le Tombeau de Marcel Dupré Sicilienne, Choral: Hommage à César Franck, Specula Petro, Sonata: In Praise of St Asaph), Tom Winpenny, organ of St Albans Cathedral, Toccata Classics 2023. A review from the British Music Society for this recording can be found here.
• Gerald Hendrie Complete Organ Music Volume 2 (comprising Six Concert Studies, Pastorale and Fughetta, Sonate en Trio, Sonata: In Praise of Reconciliation), Tom Winpenny, organ of St Albans Cathedral, Toccata Classics 2024.

References

1. Choral: Hommage à César Franck, review by Paul Hale in Organists’ Review, December 1990
2. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Iolanthe. Full Score. Review by James Brooks Kuykendall in Notes, December 2018
3. Iolanthe Full Score published by The Broude Trust. Review by Roger Wild in Sullivan Society journal, January 2019
4. Requiem review by Paul Hale in Organists’ Review, August 1999