A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Stephens, John

by William Henry Husk

STEPHENS, John, Mus. Doc., educated as a chorister in Gloucester Cathedral, in 1746 succeeded Edward Thomson as organist of Salisbury Cathedral. He graduated as Mus. Doc. at Cambridge in 1763, conducted the Gloucester Festival in 1766, and died Dec. 15 [App. p.796 "Dec. 1"], 1780. A volume of 'Cathedral Music' by him, edited by Highmore Skeats, was published in 1805.

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