Introduction

Biography

John was the hus­band of Eli­za C. (Sis­sey) Ran­dall (mar­ried 1865), and (possibly) the fa­ther of C. L. Stain­er.

Blinded in one eye by a child­hood ac­ci­dent, he served as cho­ris­ter at St. Paul’s, and or­gan­ist at St. Mi­chael’s Col­lege, 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.

Works

• Christmas Car­ols, New and Old, with Hen­ry Bram­ley (Lon­don: No­vel­lo, Ew­er, 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