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Also known as Simon John Preston

English organist, conductor, and composer (1938–2022)

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  • Il mediterraneo quale elemento del potere marittimo
  • Coronation Te Deum
  • Fantasia, the Christmas Light

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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=

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date of birth
1938-08-04
date of death
2022-05-13
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