Composer

Composer - see www.likal.com/uk/gloucester/content/john-sanders-organist-and-composer-1933-2003

Composer and poet - see www.likal.com/uk/gloucester/node/293

Composer - see www.likal.com/uk/gloucester/content/capel-bond

Composer and musician

Capel Bond (1730 - 1790) was an organist and composer.

John Sanders

See also the Sanders Society

John Stafford Smith

Who would have guessed that a local boy wrote the American National Anthem!

To be precise - he wrote the tune that later had the words "The Star Spangled Banner" set to it by the American Francis Scott Key.

Oh! say, can you see,by the dawns early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last Gleamings
Whose broad Stripes and bright Stars,thro' the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming
and the rockets red glare,the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.

Gloucester classical composer and poet. 1890-1937.

Audio by Ian Partridge,Tenor and taken from Ivor Gurney - Author, Composer, Soldier-of-a-sort

The Silent One