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Alan Ridout

Alan Ridout (1934–1996) was a British composer and teacher. His prolific output spanned church, orchestral and chamber music, much of it written for amateurs, students and children.

Trained in London and later a teacher at the Royal College of Music and several universities, he wrote in a largely tonal idiom and produced a large body of shorter concertinos, unaccompanied pieces and liturgical works.

His Introit in D Minor appears among the short organ works on Organ Miniatures (MD 3292).

Compositions by Alan Ridout appear on

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Organ Miniatures

A collection of 33 short organ works on the 1882 T.C. Lewis organ at St George’s Uniting Church, East St Kilda. The programme samples music written for small pipe organs and harmoniums, from Baroque chorales to twentieth-century miniatures.

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