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searchaux" style="display:none">English choirmaster and academic, 1937–2012</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) 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class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Order of the British Empire">CBE</a></span> <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh">FRSE</a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1937-12-12</span>)</span>12 December 1937</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">18 November 2012<span style="display:none">(2012-11-18)</span> (aged 74)</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> <p><b>Sir Philip Stevens Ledger</b>, <a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Order of the British Empire">CBE</a>, <a href="/wiki/FRSE" class="mw-redirect" title="FRSE">FRSE</a> (12 December 1937 – 18 November 2012) was an English classical musician, <a href="/wiki/Conducting" title="Conducting">choirmaster</a> and academic, best remembered as Director of the <a href="/wiki/Choir_of_King%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="Choir of King's College, Cambridge">Choir of King's College, Cambridge</a> in 1974–1982 and of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Scottish_Academy_of_Music_and_Drama" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama">Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama</a> from 1982 until he retired in 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also composed choral music and played the <a href="/wiki/Organ_(music)" title="Organ (music)">organ</a>, piano and harpsichord. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philip_Ledger&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ledger was born in <a href="/wiki/Bexhill-on-Sea" title="Bexhill-on-Sea">Bexhill-on-Sea</a> in 1937 and educated at <a href="/wiki/King%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="King's College, Cambridge">King's College, Cambridge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-grove80_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grove80-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His appointment as Master of Music at <a href="/wiki/Chelmsford_Cathedral" title="Chelmsford Cathedral">Chelmsford Cathedral</a> in 1961 made him the youngest cathedral organist in the country.<sup id="cite_ref-grove80_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grove80-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1965 he became Director of Music at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_East_Anglia" title="University of East Anglia">University of East Anglia</a>, where he was also Dean of the School of Fine Arts and Music and responsible for establishing an award-winning building for the University's Music Centre, opened in 1973.<sup id="cite_ref-grove80_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grove80-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1968, Ledger became an artistic director of the <a href="/wiki/Aldeburgh_Festival" title="Aldeburgh Festival">Aldeburgh Festival</a> with <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Britten" title="Benjamin Britten">Benjamin Britten</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Pears" title="Peter Pears">Peter Pears</a>, often conducting at the <a href="/wiki/Snape_Maltings" class="mw-redirect" title="Snape Maltings">Snape Maltings</a>, including the opening concert after its rebuilding and some first performances of works by Britten.<sup id="cite_ref-grove80_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grove80-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He worked regularly with the <a href="/wiki/English_Chamber_Orchestra" title="English Chamber Orchestra">English Chamber Orchestra</a> during this period.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was Director of Music at <a href="/wiki/King%27s_College,_Cambridge" title="King's College, Cambridge">King's College, Cambridge</a> from 1974 to 1982, and conductor of the Cambridge University Musical Society from 1973 to 1982. During his Cambridge years, he directed the Choir of King's College in the <a href="/wiki/Festival_of_Nine_Lessons_and_Carols" class="mw-redirect" title="Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols">Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols</a>, made an extensive range of recordings, and took the choir to the United States, to Australia, and to Japan for the first time. Ledger then became principal of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Scottish_Academy_of_Music_and_Drama" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama">Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama</a> from 1982 to 2001. </p><p>Ledger married the soprano Mary Erryl Wells in 1963, with <a href="/wiki/Robert_Tear" title="Robert Tear">Robert Tear</a> as best man at the wedding.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The couple had two children, Tim and Kate. His widow, children and granddaughter Becky survived him.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Compositions">Compositions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philip_Ledger&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Compositions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ledger was noted for compositions and arrangements, especially for choir. After succeeding <a href="/wiki/David_Willcocks" title="David Willcocks">David Willcocks</a> as Director at King's, he wrote a number of new descants and arrangements of Christmas carols, and settings of popular texts such as "<a href="/wiki/Adam_lay_ybounden" title="Adam lay ybounden">Adam lay ybounden</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/A_Spotless_Rose" class="mw-redirect" title="A Spotless Rose">A Spotless Rose</a>". His arrangement of "<a href="/wiki/This_joyful_Eastertide" title="This joyful Eastertide">This joyful Eastertide</a>" for mixed voices and organ has been widely performed and broadcast. Many of his works and editions were published by <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>, Encore Publications, the Lorenz Corporation (USA), and the <a href="/wiki/Royal_School_of_Church_Music" title="Royal School of Church Music">Royal School of Church Music</a>. His Requiem <i>A Thanksgiving for Life</i> is for soprano and tenor soloists with mixed choir and may be performed with an orchestra, chamber ensemble or organ. </p><p>The first recording devoted wholly to his choral works, including his Requiem, was made on 7–8 December 2008 by <a href="/wiki/Christ%27s_College_Chapel_Choir" title="Christ's College Chapel Choir">Christ's College Chapel Choir</a>, Cambridge, directed by David Rowland and Ledger. An album of it was released by Regent Records on 16 November 2009. </p><p>Ledger also composed an Easter <a href="/wiki/Cantata" title="Cantata">cantata</a> with carols entitled <i>The Risen Christ</i>, premièred in the US at <a href="/wiki/Washington_National_Cathedral" title="Washington National Cathedral">Washington National Cathedral</a> on 7 May 2011 and in the UK at evensong in <a href="/wiki/Canterbury_Cathedral" title="Canterbury Cathedral">Canterbury Cathedral</a> on 8 May 2011. In 2012, Ledger composed a further cantata, <i>This Holy Child</i>, which was first performed on 16 December 2012 at a morning church service at First Presbyterian Church, <a href="/wiki/Regina,_Saskatchewan" title="Regina, Saskatchewan">Regina, Saskatchewan</a>, Canada. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours">Honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philip_Ledger&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Philip Ledger was appointed <a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Order of the British Empire">Commander of the Order of the British Empire</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1985_New_Year_Honours" title="1985 New Year Honours">1985 New Year Honours</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Knight_Bachelor" title="Knight Bachelor">knighted</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1999_Birthday_Honours" title="1999 Birthday Honours">1999 Birthday Honours</a> for services to music.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He received honorary doctorates from the universities of <a href="/wiki/University_of_Strathclyde" title="University of Strathclyde">Strathclyde</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Central_England" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Central England">Central England</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Glasgow" title="University of Glasgow">Glasgow</a> and <a href="/wiki/University_of_St_Andrews" title="University of St Andrews">St Andrews</a>, and from the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Scottish_Academy_of_Music_and_Drama" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama">Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama</a>. He was President of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_College_of_Organists" title="Royal College of Organists">Royal College of Organists</a> in 1992–1994 and of the <a href="/wiki/Incorporated_Society_of_Musicians" class="mw-redirect" title="Incorporated Society of Musicians">Incorporated Society of Musicians</a> in 1994–1995, and a patron of <a href="/wiki/Bampton_Classical_Opera" title="Bampton Classical Opera">Bampton Classical Opera</a>. He was awarded a fellowship by the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Northern_College_of_Music" title="Royal Northern College of Music">Royal Northern College of Music</a> in 1989.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ledger was a <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh">Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh</a> (FRSE).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Philip_Ledger&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/music-obituaries/9688940/Sir-Philip-Ledger.html">"Sir Philip Ledger"</a>. <i>The Telegraph</i>. 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Taverner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Tomkins" title="Thomas Tomkins">Thomas Tomkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Tye" title="Christopher Tye">Christopher Tye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Weelkes" title="Thomas Weelkes">Thomas Weelkes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Mundy_(composer)" title="William Mundy (composer)">William Mundy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:14em"><a href="/wiki/Restoration_(England)" class="mw-redirect" title="Restoration (England)">Restoration</a>/<a href="/wiki/Georgian_era" title="Georgian era">Georgian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Attwood_(composer)" title="Thomas Attwood (composer)">Thomas Attwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Blow" title="John Blow">John Blow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeremiah_Clarke" title="Jeremiah Clarke">Jeremiah Clarke</a></li> <li><a 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Berkeley">Lennox Berkeley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Blair_(composer)" title="Hugh Blair (composer)">Hugh Blair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Boyce_(composer)" title="William Boyce (composer)">William Boyce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Goss_(composer)" title="John Goss (composer)">John Goss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._Tertius_Noble" title="T. Tertius Noble">T. Tertius Noble</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Ouseley" title="Frederick Ouseley">Frederick Ouseley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubert_Parry" title="Hubert Parry">Hubert Parry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Stainer" title="John Stainer">John Stainer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Villiers_Stanford" title="Charles Villiers Stanford">Charles Villiers Stanford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams" title="Ralph Vaughan Williams">Ralph Vaughan Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Attwood_Walmisley" title="Thomas Attwood Walmisley">Thomas Attwood Walmisley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Wesley_(composer,_born_1766)" title="Samuel Wesley (composer, born 1766)">Samuel Wesley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Sebastian_Wesley" title="Samuel Sebastian Wesley">Samuel Sebastian Wesley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Wood_(composer)" title="Charles Wood (composer)">Charles Wood</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:14em"><a href="/wiki/Interwar_Britain" title="Interwar Britain">Interwar</a>/<a href="/wiki/Postwar" class="mw-redirect" title="Postwar">Postwar</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Darke" title="Harold Darke">Harold Darke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Dyson_(composer)" title="George Dyson (composer)">George Dyson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerald_Finzi" title="Gerald Finzi">Gerald Finzi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Harris" title="William Henry Harris">William H. Harris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basil_Harwood" title="Basil Harwood">Basil Harwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Howells" title="Herbert Howells">Herbert Howells</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ireland_(composer)" title="John Ireland (composer)">John Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Jackson_(composer)" title="Francis Jackson (composer)">Francis Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Mathias" title="William Mathias">William Mathias</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Murrill" title="Herbert Murrill">Herbert Murrill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Oldroyd" title="George Oldroyd">George Oldroyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Rose_(musician)" title="Bernard Rose (musician)">Bernard Rose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Shaw_(composer)" title="Martin Shaw (composer)">Martin Shaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Sumsion" title="Herbert Sumsion">Herbert Sumsion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Walton" title="William Walton">William Walton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:14em"><a href="/wiki/Contemporary_classical_music" title="Contemporary classical music">Modern</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_Archer" title="Malcolm Archer">Malcolm Archer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Bramma" title="Harry Bramma">Harry Bramma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Britten" title="Benjamin Britten">Benjamin Britten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Dove" title="Jonathan Dove">Jonathan Dove</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graham_Kendrick" title="Graham Kendrick">Graham Kendrick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Leighton" title="Kenneth Leighton">Kenneth Leighton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Rutter" title="John Rutter">John Rutter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Shephard" title="Richard Shephard">Richard Shephard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Tavener" 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