Harvey Grace

His music education began as a chorister, alongside his four brothers, in the Abbey church at Romsey, his home town. Here was where he first began to play the organ.[1] Grace continued his practical musical education at Southwark Cathedral under Alfred Madeley Richardson (1868–1949). At the same time his academic music education was undertaken by R. J. Pitcher (sometime organist of St Mary Kilburn and Professor of Singing at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama).

• (date?–date?). Organist of All Saints, Binfield, Berkshire.[1]
• (date?)–1905. Organist of St Alphege's, Southwark, London.[1]
• 1905. Grace passed the examinations to become a fellow of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO). He would later become a member of the College's Council.

• 1905–21. Grace was appointed Organist of St Agnes's, Kennington, London, a post he held until 1921 .[1]
• In 1916 he married Dorothy Kirby, and together they had three children, Dorothy, Mary and Robert.[1]
• Between 1918 and 1944 he was editor of The Musical Times.[2] He was one of the longest serving editors there, bringing a new interest in contemporary developments in composition to the publication. He wrote under the pen name 'Feste'.[3]
• 1921–25. Organist of St Mary Magdalene's, Munster Square, London.[1]
• 1925–31. Grace held no organist posts, preferring instead to concentrate on his work as a writer and editor, most notably of The Musical Times.[1]
• 1931–38. Organist of Chichester Cathedral. Grace's years at Chichester saw the introduction there of plainsong (from May 1936) coinciding with a new awareness there of liturgical solemnity.[4]
• 1932. Aawarded the Lambeth degree of Doctor of Music.[1]
• 1935. Grace was elected to the Corporation of Trinity College London, becoming a board member and Professor of organ and theory.[1]
• 1937. During this year Grace was Commissioner of the School of English Church Music, resigning at the end of the year.[4]
• 1941–43. organist of East Grinstead parish church.[1]
• Harvey Grace died in February 1944 in Bromley Hospital while awaiting surgery.[1]

• 1917: Music in Parish Churches. A plea for the simple. (London: Church Music Society).[5]
• 1919: French Organ Music, past and present. (Reprinted from the New Music Review.). (New York : H. W. Gray Co.).[5]
• 1920: The Complete Organist (London : Richards Press).[5]
• 1927: Ludwig van Beethoven (London: Kegan Paul).
• 1928: Editor of A Handbook for Choralists. 34 studies by Edward C. Bairstow and others and 6 rounds by Beethoven. [With musical notes.] (London: Novello).[5]
• 1928: A Musician at Large. (London: Humphrey Milford).[5]
• 1936: Music and worship, with Walford Davies. (London: : Eyre & Spottiswoode).[5]
• 1938: Bach (Novello Short Biographies)
• 1938: The Training and Conducting of Choral Societies. (A collation of articles that appeared in The Musical Times in 1930–31. (London: Novello).[5]
• 1937 The Listener's Guide to the Organ Music of Bach. [With musical notes]. (London: Columbia Graphophone Co.).[5]
• 1943: Music (British Council "Britain Advances" series). Longmans.

• 1932–7. The twenty organ sonatas by Josef Rheinberger.[6]
• 1938. Beethoven. Edward C. Bairstow, Harold E. Darke, T. F. Dunhill, Harvey Grace, Julius Harrison, Geoffrey Shaw. 'Thirty-four Studies in Sight-Singing and Interpretation for Mixed Voices [...] and six Rounds
• 1943–5. The major organ works of César Franck.[7]

• Free scores by Harvey Grace at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
• Harvey Grace. Cradle Song (1922). Andrew Pink (2021) Exordia ad missam.