The British Musical Biography

[E] Wood, Charles, composer and organist,
born at Armagh, Ireland, June 15, 1866, son
of ( 'harles Wood, a lay vicar in the Cathedral.
Obtained the Morlej' Scholarship for compo-
sition, R.C.M., 1883, and was appointed pro-
fessor of harmony, etc., 1888. In 1889, he
won the Organist Scholarship, Caius College,
Cambridge ; and graduated Mus. B. and
B.A., 1890; Mus. D. and M.A., 1894, in
which last year he was made Fellow of Gonville
and Caius College. A.R.C.M. While a stu-
dent at the R.C.M. he wrote a pf. concerto,
string quartet, and other works. He won the
Musical World Prize, 1887, by a setting of
Alex. Grant's "Through the Twilight" ; the
Madrigal Society's prize and gold naedal, 1888,
with five-part madrigal, "Slow, slow, fresh
fount " ; and, in 1889, the prize offered by the
Wind Instrument Chamber Music Society for
a Quintet for wind. He has written inciden-
tal music to Euripides' " Ion," and " Iphig-
enia in Tauris," produced, at Theatre Royal,
Cambridge, 1890 and 1894 ; also set Shelley's
"Ode to the West Wind," for tenor solo,
chorus and orchestra (op. 3, Cambridge,
1889) ; and Swinburne's " Ode to Music," for
soprano solo, chorus and orchestra, written
for. and performed at the opening of the New
Building, R.C.M., May 2, 1894. He has
further published church music, songs, part-
songs, and edited a collection of Irish folk-
songs, Boosey, 1897.

[+] His elder brother, William G. Wood, was
a distinguished organist. He was born at
Armagh, January 16, 1859, and received his
early musical training at the Cathedral, where
he was deputy organist, 1873-7. He afterwards
entered the R.A.M., and won the Lucas Prize
for composition, 1882. Was professor of the
organ, and F.R.A.M., P.R.C.O. While a
student, he was appointed organist of Christ
Church, Woburn Square (1880) : gave frequent
organ recitals, appearing at Bow and Bromley
Institute (1883), and elsewhere; played the
organ at the first concert held in the Queen's
Hall, December 2, 1893. In 1886 he was
appointed organist and music master of High-
gate Grammar School, a post he retained until
his death, September 25, 1895. He composed
an operetta. The Bride of Cambus (1883), and
published three settings of the Magnificat and
Nunc dimittis. He wrote a concert overture
for orchestra, and much music for the organ :
Fantasia and Fugue in C minor ; Sonata in
D minor; Three Canons, etc., etc., by which
he will be long remembered.

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