June 26, 1834, Shipd­ham, Nor­folk, Eng­land.

Jan­u­a­ry 5, 1923, Nor­wich, Eng­land.

Burnett was a chor­ister at Nor­wich Ca­thed­ral be­gin­ning at age 8. At age 15, he start­ed study­ing the or­gan un­der Ze­cha­riah Buck; he was Buck’s as­sist­ant or­gan­ist from 1855 to 1877. He grad­u­at­ed from Cam­bridge Un­i­ver­si­ty (MusB 1857, MusD 1869), and in 1870 became a Fellow in the College of Organists. He con­duct­ed the Nor­wich Mu­sic­al Un­ion for over two de­cades, and played the or­gan at the Nor­wich Mus­ic­al fes­tiv­al. In the 1849 fes­ti­val, he, Jen­ny Lind and a Miss Dol­by to­ge­ther sang Lift Up Thine Eyes. He served as organist of St. Pe­ter’s, Man­croft, be­gin­ning in 1877, was his bo­rough’s or­gan­ist from 1880, and played at the Lowe­stoft Pier Con­certs at that be­gan in 1890. His pub­lished works in­clude can­ta­tas, an­thems, car­ols, org­an piec­es and some two do­zen hymn tunes.

• Haeussler, p. 572
• Reynolds, p. 260

1. Agnes
2. Kirby Be­don