Gordon Saunders

Saunders with student Edith K. Comley (nee Bird), ca.1907–1912 at Trinity College of Music, London.

Joseph Gordon Saunders (183717 January 1912) was an English composer of songs, church music and organ music. He was also a teacher of composition, piano, harmony and counterpoint at the Trinity College of Music. He was known to have conducted ensemble classes.

Saunders studied with the organist and composer Edward John Hopkins at the Trinity College of Music, London, where he was one of the seven founding members of the college.

As part of his role at the Trinity College of Music, Saunders was an examiner and in 1896 he travelled to Australia and New Zealand to conduct numerous graded music examinations in multiple cities, Adelaide, Melbourne, Ballarat, Tasmania, and Brisbane.

He was an associate to the Philharmonic Society. Memories (1868) – song. Verse by J. C. Harman, Esq. (Ashdown and Parry, London) I will give thanks. Thanksgiving anthem (1868) Festal March (1877) The Lord Is in His Holy Temple – Anthem (printed 1881) Polish Dance for pianoforte (1892) Fugue in D-Minor (1897) Prelude and Fugue (1897) Saunders, Gordon (1899) Examples in strict counterpoint (old and new), Ewer Novello Saunders, Gordon (1901) Examples in Strict Counterpoint: Part II Saunders, Gordon (1912) Examples in Strict Counterpoint: Part II Ewer Novello