Bernard William George Rose, OBE, (9 May 1916 – 21 November 1996) was variously a student at the Royal College of Music, 1933–1935, organist, soldier, and composer. A graduate of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, 1935–1939, studying under Hubert Middleton and Edward Joseph Dent, he started his academic career at Queen's College, Oxford, 1939–1940 and 1945–1957, before being appointed Informator Choristarum (organist and master of the choristers) at Magdalen College, 1957–1981: Vice President of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1973–1975. Emeritus Fellow 1981–1996. He was in his later years president of the Royal College of Organists 1974–1976. His Preces and Responses, for use in the Anglican service of evensong, are very widely performed. In 1952 he conducted the premiere of An Oxford Elegy by