Francis Burgess

Francis Henry Burgess (1879-1948) was a leading British proponent of the use of plainsong in Anglican church music. He was born in Marylebone, London. From sometime before 1916 until at least 1921 Burgess lived at 27 Lechmere Road, Willesden Green, London.

Personal life In 1906 he married Mabel Thistleton at St Columb's church, Notting Hill, London. Together they had a daughter Mabel Charlotte. In 1917 for several months he worked at the Royal Navy shore establishment HMS President II. In 1946 he married Freda Bartlett and together they had a son Arthur.

Career Musician 1900: Organist, St. Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill, London, 1902: Organist, St Mark's, Old Marylebone Road. 1904 Organist, St. Columb's, North Kensington. He was still in post there in 1921. He was taken ill and died just days before his induction. Goodwill music : a collection of hymns and tunes, together with a number of alternative tunes to hymns already contained in "Hymns ancient and modern". The office for the dead / set to its ancient music by Francis Burgess. 1906 Night at the Opera: Verdi's Il trovatore. Night at the Opera: Verdi's Rigoletto. 1908 The organ of fifty years hence : a study gathered from its past history and present tendencies. 1913 Benedictus set to the Seventh Gregorian Tone with verses in Faux-bourdon by T. Tallis ... Edited by F. Burgess and R. Shore. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (No.1) set to Gregorian tones with faux-bourdons by L. Viadana; edited by Francis Burgess. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (No. 2) set to Gregorian tones / with verses in faux-Bourdon by Thomas Tomkins; edited by Francis Burgess and Royle Shore. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis : (no. 3) set to Gregorian tones : with verses in faux-bourdon / by John Holmes; edited by Francis Burgess and Royle Shore. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (No.4) set to Gregorian tones with verses in faux-bourdon by T. Morley. / [For S.A.T.B.]; edited by F. Burgess and R. Shore. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (no. 5) set to Gregorian tones / with verses in faux-bourdon by William Byrd (c. 1543-1623); edited by Francis Burgess and Royle Shore. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (no.6) set to Gregorian tones, with verses in Faux-bourdon / by Orlando Gibbons; edited by Francis Burgess and Royle Shore. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (no. 7) set to Gregorian tones, with verses in faux-bourdon by William Whitbroke and Knight. Ed. by Francis Burgess and Royle Shore. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (No. 8) set to Gregorian tones with verses in faux-bourdon / by an unknown Edwardine composer (1547) and Thomas Causton (d. 1569); edited by Francis Burgess and Royle Shore. Night at the Opera: Mozart's Don Giovanni. 1914 The teaching and accompaniment of plainsong (Handbooks for musicians). 1917 The Music of the Serbian Liturgy, arranged for the English Rite; w Voyeslav Yanitch. 1920 The anthems of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Fa-Burden Chant Book for use with the Gregorian Tones. Edited by G. Sceats and F. Burgess. The English gradual : Part 1, the plainchant of the ordinary / edited by Francis Burgess. 2nd ed. 1922 The plainchant of the Missal. part I. The music of Holy week / edited by Francis Burgess. 1924 An English benediction manual. An English kyriale : (ninefold settings). Casciolini's Missa Brevissima. Good Friday tenebrae. Holy Saturday tenebrae. Maundy Thursday tenebrae. Missa pro defunctis : (in simple plainchant). Solemn reception of a bishop Vespers of the dead. Sunday compline. 1930 The English gradual / Part 2, The Proper for the liturgical year. edited by Francis Burgess. Mass responses; Office responses. 1933 The Tenor Tonale for use with the Gregorian Tones. Edited by F. Burgess. 1935 A Liturgical Anthem Book. Edited by F. Burgess. 1936 The ritual music of the prefaces : according to the rite of 1662 with other eucharistic intonations and inflexions and the rules for chanting the collects, epistles & gospels; with sarum note / edited by Francis Burgess. The Sarum chant for the solemn singing of the passion of Our Lord on Palm Sunday and Good Friday: from manuscripts at Salisbury & Lambeth : set to the texts of the Rite of 1662 / by Francis Burgess. 1946 Plainchant evening psalter and canticles / Ed. by F. Burgess. 4th ed. The Plainchant Gradual. Edited by Francis Burgess. (and R.L. Shields).