Blinded in one eye in a child­hood ac­ci­dent, Stain­er served as chor­ist­er at St. Paul’s, and or­gan­ist at the Coll­ege of St. Mi­chael, Ten­bury, and Christ Church, Ox­ford. He found­ed the Ox­ford Phil­har­mon­ic So­ci­e­ty in 1866, was knight­ed in 1888, and be­came a pro­fes­sor of mu­sic at Ox­ford in 1889. His works in­clude:

• Christmas Car­ols, New and Old, with Hen­ry Bram­ley (Lon­don: No­vel­lo, Ew­er & Co., 1871)
• A Theory of Har­mo­ny, 1871
• The Cru­ci­fix­ion, 1887
• The Pre­sent State of Mu­sic in Eng­land (Ox­ford, Eng­land: Hor­ace Hart, 1889)
• Music in Re­la­tion to the In­tel­lect and Emo­tions, 1892
• The Sto­ry of the Cross, 1893

Sources

Music

1. Ascendit
2. Author of Life
3. Blessed Home, The
4. Charity
5. Credo
6. Cross of Jesus
7. Eucharisticus
8. Evening Pray­er
9. Exsurgat De­us
10. Grandpont
11. In Memoriam
12. Iona
13. Jejunia
14. Jerusalem
15. Jesu Hail! O God Most Ho­ly
16. Laus Matutina
17. Love Divine
18. Lux Prima
19. Magdalena
20. Matrimony
21. Oxford
22. Rest
23. Rex Regum
24. Sons of Labour
25. St. Cyprian
26. St. Francis Xavier
27. St. Hill
28. St. Paul’s
29. Stola Regia
30. Up in Heaven
31. Veni
32. Vesper
33. Virgin Stills the Crying, The
34. Woodlynn