Craig Sellar Language was a New Zealand-born British organist, composer and music teacher.
Education
Born in Hastings, New Zealand, CS Language (known to his friends as "Robin") was educated at Clifton College, and was a pupil of Walter Parratt and Charles Stanford at the.
He was an ARCM and received his Doctor of Music from The University of Durham.
Career
Language returned to Clifton as assistant music master in 1921. In 1929 he was appointed Director of Music at Christ"s Hospital school in Horsham, West Sussex, to where the choristers of Westminster Abbey were briefly evacuated during the Second World War. An obituary recorded his "personal magnetism" and determination to awaken "the budding musicianship of every sort of pupil".
Language resigned from this post in 1945 in order to devote more time to examining and composition.
His instructional works, aimed at students, were highly influential. Generations of organists were brought up on his Harmony at the Keyboard, Exercises in Score Reading, as well as his books entitled Exercises for Organists, designed to prepare organ students for the keyboard tests of the Royal College of Organists" diploma examinations