About Robert James Stove

I’m an organist and (ahem) musicologist. Born in Sydney, I moved to Melbourne in 2001.

For most of the last two decades, COVID permitting, I’ve played the

organ regularly in churches. In 2017 I completed my BMus at Monash

University. Four years later I was awarded a PhD in musicology at the

Sydney Conservatorium.

My book César Franck: His Life and Times was the first study in

English of this great composer in nearly four decades. It was

published in 2012 by Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland. Most of

my musical compositions are published by Wirripang, of Wollongong,

New South Wales. These are predominantly choral though with the

occasional solo vocal work and organ work also.

The first CD which I issued was a collection of baroque organ music

entitled The Gates of Vienna. It was released in July 2018 on the Ars

Organi label. Then came (likewise on Ars Organi) Pax Britannica

(2019), devoted to composers from Victorian and Edwardian Britain;

French Romantic Church Music (2021), which is adequately described

by its title; and most recently – as of June 2022 – Undertones of War.

Feel free to mosey around the site, which is very much a work-in-

progress.