The British Musical Biography

[E] Stirling, Elizabeth, Mrs. P. A. Bridge,
organist and composer, born at Greenwich,
February 26, 1819. Studied under W. B.
Wilson, Edward Holmes, J. A. Hamilton, and
G. A. Macfarren. In 1839, she was appointed
organist of All Saint's, Poplar, an office she
retained until 1858. In 1856, she presented
an Exercise, Psahn 130, for 5 voices, and
orchestra, for the degree of Mus. Bac. at
Oxford ; but though it passed the examiners,
there was no power to confer the degree. She
was organist of St. Andrew's, LTndershaft,
from 1858 to 1880, when she resigned. An
expert organist, she was one of the earliest to
play Bach's fugues, and gave performances at
the ApoUonicon, in different London Churches,
and at the International Exhibition of 1862.
As a composer she will be known by her Six
Pedal fugues, and slow movements for the
organ, but more for her part-songs of which
" All among the barley " achieved remarkable
popularity. Her marriage with Mr. F. A.
Bridge took place May 16, 1863. She died in
London, March 25, 1895.

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