Benjamin Rogers

Life

Born: May 1614

Died: June 1698

Biography

Rogers was organist at Christ Church, Dublin in his early career, an employment cutailed by the outbreak of the Irish rebellion, 1641. Except for a short interlude at Eton in the early years of the Restoration, Rogers spent most of the rest of his life in Oxford (Magdalen). He was a quintessential Oxfordian of the seventeenth century: informant to Anthony a Wood, composer of music played at the dedication ceremonies of the Sheldonian Theatre, and composer of the Hymnus Eucharisticus, sung on May Morning from Magdalen Tower (probably from the 1670s, although the ritual was not formalised until about 1844).

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List of choral works

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• Hymnus Eucharisticus     (   Sibelius 2 )
• Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in A minor   ( )
• Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in D   ( )
• Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in F   ( )

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