Blinded in one eye in a child­hood ac­ci­dent, Stain­er served as chor­ist­er at St. Paul’s, and or­gan­ist at the Coll­ege of St. Mi­chael, 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. His works in­clude:

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

Sources

Music

1. Ascendit
2. Author of Life
3. Blessed Home, The
4. Charity
5. Children’s Offerings
6. Credo
7. Cross of Jesus
8. Eucharisticus
9. Evening Pray­er
10. Exsurgat De­us
11. Grandpont
12. In Memoriam
13. Iona
14. Jejunia
15. Jerusalem
16. Jesu Hail! O God Most Ho­ly
17. Laus Matutina
18. Love Divine
19. Lux Prima
20. Magdalena
21. Matrimony
22. Ox­ford
23. Rest
24. Rex Regum
25. Sons of Labour
26. St. Cyprian
27. St. Francis Xavier
28. St. Hill
29. St. Paul’s
30. Stola Regia
31. Up in Heaven
32. Veni
33. Vesper
34. Virgin Stills the Crying, The
35. Woodlynn