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272:. He applied to study with Straube for his main study, Organ; but also composition under the Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk David and piano under Prof Robert Teichmueller, who was a pupil of Reinecke and taught Karg-Elert and others. Miles signed up on 28 September 1935. He remained in Germany for a few years, as he is documented living in Mittelweg, Hamburg a year or so later and did some translating work in an advisory capacity for C.F.Peters. 27: 280:
From the 1930s, through recitals and in particular broadcasts, he was virtually alone in representing the continental style of organ playing in Britain, especially in Bach.
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he became established as a devoted and respected teacher through his hundreds of pupils from
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FRCO (23 February 1913 – 26 March 1988) was an English organist and organ teacher based in
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He married Margarete Böhm. They had one son, George Christopher Miles (1942 – 1994).
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He was born on 23 February 1913 to Canon Joseph Henry Miles (1856 - 1935) (Curate of
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from 1931 to 1935, where he studied with George Thalben-Ball.
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Who's Who in Music. First Post War Edition. 1949-50
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