George Job Elvey (1816 - 1893)

Born in­to a mu­sic­al fam­i­ly, El­vey start­ed his ca­reer as a boy, sing­ing at Can­ter­bury Ca­thed­ral. La­ter, he re­ceived more for­mal train­ing at the Roy­al Acad­e­my of Mu­sic. Around 1835, he was ap­point­ed ?mas­ter of the boys? and or­gan­ist at St. George?s Cha­pel, Wind­sor, Eng­land (one of his tunes, ?St George?s Wind­sor? takes its name from this lo­ca­tion). He served at St. George?s for al­most half a cen­tu­ry. He was knight­ed in 1871 for his Fes­tiv­al March, played at the wed­ding of Princ­ess Lou­ise.

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