- Stephens, John
[E] Stephens, John, organist and composer,
was born probably at Gloucester about 1720.
He was a chorister in Gloucester Cathedral,
and in 1746 he succeeded Edward Thomson
as organist there. In 1763 he graduated Mus.
Doc, Cambridge, and in 1766 he conducted
the Gloucester Festival. He died at Salis-
bury, December 15, 1780. A volume of his
compositions for the church was issued at
London in 1805, as Cathedral music, corrected
and published by Highmore Skeats. One of
his pieces called the Chimes of Gloucester
Cathedral, was edited by C. L. Williams.entry id: 393-L-61
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