Born: June 13, 1816, So­ho, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Died: Sep­tem­ber 26, 1876, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Rimbault played the or­gan at the St. Pe­ter’s, Vere Street; St. John’s Wood Pres­by­ter­i­an Church; and the Swiss Church in So­ho, Lon­don. He helped found the Mu­sic­al Ant­i­quar­i­an So­ci­e­ty in 1840, and com­posed op­er­et­tas and pop­u­lar and re­li­gious mu­sic. He once re­ceived—and de­clined—a po­si­tion as pro­fess­or of mu­sic at Har­vard Colle­ge. His works in­clude:

• The Organ: Its His­to­ry and Con­struct­ion, with Ed­ward Hop­kins, 1855
• Early Eng­lish Or­gan Build­ers and Their Works, 1865

Sources

Music

1. O Happy Day
2. Rutherford