Simon Preston, an organist, conductor and composer who was an instrumentalist of consummate, intelligent virtuosity and a force in the early-music movement, died on May 13. He was 83.
Simon Preston, 83, English organist, conductor, and composer, died May 13. He was born August 4, 1938, in Bournemouth, UK, and attended Canford School in Wimborne, Dorset. He was a chorister at King’s College, Cambridge, where he began organ studies with Hugh McLean. He would later study with C. H. Trevor before being named organ scholar at King’s College.
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