Herbert Norman Howells (b. 1892; d. 1983)

English composer Herbert Howells showed musical promise as a young child, and 
later won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music where his principal teachers were
Charles Villiers Stanford and Charles Wood. In 1920, Howells accepted a teaching
Appointment at the RCM, a post he held well into his 80s. Howells's compositional style is a fusion of many English styles, from the Tudor era to Vaughan Williams. His Requiem is generally considered his masterpiece. The work was written in 1938 after the death of his nine-year-old son. Howells held the Requiem as a private document until 1950, when it was premiered in Gloucester.