Roland Diggle
1885 — 1954
Roland Diggle was an English-born, American organist and composer who wrote and arranged an enormous number of published pieces, and who served for forty years as organist and choirmaster at St. John’s Episcopal Church of Los Angeles, California.
Adapted from the Wikipedia article on Roland Diggle.
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Roland Diggle, born in England in 1885, established himself as an organist with a career spanning Canada and the United States. According to Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians: American Supplement (1920), he served as an organist in Canada from 1908, before moving to Quincy, Illinois, in 1911, and then to Los Angeles in 1914, where he continued his work. Both Grove’s (1920) and The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1924) note that he undertook numerous concert-tours. His compositional output, as recorded by Grove’s Dictionary (1920), included string-quartets, organ-sonatas, an orchestral ‘Fairy Suite,’ church-music, piano-pieces, and songs. The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1924) similarly lists an orchestral suite, string-quartets, and organ-sonatas among his works.