Introduction

Biography

Brother of Geof­frey Shaw, Mar­tin at­tend­ed the Roy­al Col­lege of Mu­sic, and lat­er worked in the the­ater with Gor­don Craig and Isa­do­ra Dun­can.

He played the or­gan at St. Ma­ry, Prim­rose Hill (1908–20); St. Mar­tin-in-the-Fields (1920–24), Ec­cles­ton Guild House (1924–35), and was di­rect­or of mu­sic for the Ang­li­can dio­cese of Chelms­ford (1935–45), and helped found the Pur­cell Op­er­a­tic So­ci­ety.

In 1924, Shaw be­came one of the first men to broad­cast on the BBC.

His works in­clude:

• Additional Tunes in Use at St. Ma­ry’s, 1915
• The Prin­ci­ples of Eng­lish Church Mu­sic Com­po­si­tion, 1921
• Up to Now, 1929, an au­to­bio­gra­phy