Stanley Marchant

Sir Stanley Robert Marchant CVO (15 May 1883 – 28 February 1949) was an English church musician, teacher and composer.

[1] In 1903 he was appointed sub-organist at St Paul's Cathedral,[3] and in 1927 he was made organist in succession to Charles Macpherson.

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians records that Marchant conducted the reopening ceremony in June 1930 and the thanksgiving service for the silver jubilee of King George V in 1935, composing for each occasion a Te Deum.

[2] The Times said of his tenure at the RAM that he "breathed a new atmosphere into the conduct of affairs ... so that technical proficiency and a liberal outlook were happily combined".

[2] Grove says of Marchant's music: "the finest ... inspired by ceremonial occasions at St Paul's, is well crafted, though conservative in idiom, and shows the influence of Stanford and Parry.