Simon Preston
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English organist, conductor, and composer (1938–2022)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Il mediterraneo quale elemento del potere marittimo
- Coronation Te Deum
- Fantasia, the Christmas Light
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1938-08-04
- Active to
- 2022-05-13
Discography
- Music of the High Renaissance in England1966
- Symphony of Psalms / Canticum Sacrum1975
- Concerto for Organ, Strings & Timpani / Concert champêtre for Harpsichord & Orchestra1978
- Choral Works1981
- Coronation Anthems1982
- Israel in Egyprt1984
- The Cuckoo and the Nightingale: 4 Organ Concertos1984
- Widor: Symphony no. 5 / Vierne: Carillon de Westminster1984
- Dettingen Te Deum / Dettingen Anthem1984
- Reubke: Organ Sonata "The 94th Psalm" / Liszt: Fantasia and Fugue on "Ad Nos"1985
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 18,570
- Total plays
- 173,851
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Simon Preston (b. 1938) is an internationally acclaimed concert organist. Originally a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, he studied the organ with C. H. Trevor before returning to King's as organ scholar. He was sub-organist of Westminster Abbey from 1962-67, and organist of Christ Church, Oxford from 1970 before returning to Westminster as Organist and Master of the Choristers in 1981. He relinquished his Westminster post in 1987, and has since led an international concert career <a href=
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2
· 2014 · cited 85,603x
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 51,812x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,691x
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 33,813x
- Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis
· 2002 · cited 31,534x
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- date of birth
- 1938-08-04
- date of death
- 2022-05-13
- name in native language
- Simon Preston
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