Christopher Morris

Birth Year: 1922
Death Year: 2015
Notes: Church organist who worked with Sir William Walton and commissioned the Carols for Choirs books . He was also music editor at Oxford University Press. arranged several pieces for the organ, and also created a cantata from Vaughan Williams’s opera A Pilgrim’s Progress. Morris’s own composition Born in a Manger was performed at the King’s College Cambridge Carol Service in 1962, and subsequently recorded by the Bach Choir. He also composed a number of songs.

Edited:

Title Composer(s) Type Arranged For Publisher
A Sixteenth Century Anthem Book Various, Score SATB, a capella Oxford University Press
The Oxford Book of Tudor Anthems Byrd, William; Weelkes, Thomas; Gibbons, Orlando; Tye, Christopher Score Mixed choir and keyboard Oxford University Press