Augustus Tozer

January 13, 1857 (age 53)

Little Sutton

February 1910) was an English composer and organist. He was sent to attend the City of London School in 1870 and, having shown a talent for music, went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music. His particular skill was with the pipe organ and, having applied for membership of the Royal College of Organists was appointed as a Fellow at the exceptionally young age of 19. Following completion of a degree in music at Durham University, he undertook further studies at Oxford University until, in November 1895, he qualified for his Doctorate. He held this post until close to his death. He also worked with Elgar, whose mother was a Catholic, on several of his Catholic compositions, and included them in his collection "The Complete Benediction Manual", although Elgar later recounted to Hubert Leicester how Tozer had changed the harmonies so that the published version was “absolutely different” from, and inferior to, Elgar’s original. In 1901, Tozer"s health deteriorated and he retired from Hove where he was living “on his own means” to Steyning (later the home of John Ireland) where he died in February 1910.

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Augustus Tozer was born in Little Sutton, at the time a small village on the Wirral Peninsula, but now a suburb of the town of Ellesmere Portuguese.

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Royal College of Music.

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February 1910) was an English composer and organist. He was sent to attend the City of London School in 1870 and, having shown a talent for music, went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music. His particular skill was with the pipe organ and, having applied for membership of the Royal College of Organists was appointed as a Fellow at the exceptionally young age of 19.

Following completion of a degree in music at Durham University, he undertook further studies at Oxford University until, in November 1895, he qualified for his Doctorate.

He held this post until close to his death. He also worked with Elgar, whose mother was a Catholic, on several of his Catholic compositions, and included them in his collection "The Complete Benediction Manual", although Elgar later recounted to Hubert Leicester how Tozer had changed the harmonies so that the published version was “absolutely different” from, and inferior to, Elgar’s original.

In 1901, Tozer"s health deteriorated and he retired from Hove where he was living “on his own means” to Steyning (later the home of John Ireland) where he died in February 1910.

Achievements

He subsequently attained his Licensiateship with the Royal Academy for his ability with the organ in 1882 and was awarded his Associateship of the Royal College of Music for his music theory and composition work in 1887.

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