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Sir David Willcocks CBE, MC, was born in Cornwall on 30th December 1919 and was a British choral conductor, organist, and composer.
Willcocks biography
He had an illustrious career, and since 1958 was published by Oxford University Press, with which he enjoyed a long, happy, and fruitful association.
He trained as a chorister at Westminster Abbey before becoming a music scholar at Clifton College, Bristol, after which he was appointed the organ scholar at King's College, Cambridge.
When the Second World War broke out, he interrupted his studies to serve in the British Army, eventually being awarded the Military Cross. He returned to Cambridge in 1945, completing his studies, and in 1947 was elected a Fellow of King's College and appointed conductor of the Cambridge Philharmonic Society.
Subsequent appointments included posts at Salisbury Cathedral and the Salisbury Musical Society, Worcester Cathedral (from where he also directed the Three Choirs Festival in the years 1951, 1954, and 1