Charles Stanford - Funeral March, Op. 48 (1892, arr. 1925)

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (30 September 1852 – 29 March 1924) was an Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was educated at the University of Cambridge before studying music in Leipzig and Berlin. He was instrumental in raising the status of the Cambridge University Musical Society, attracting international stars to perform with it.

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Funeral March "The Martyrdom" from Incidental Music to "Becket", Op. 48 (1892, August)
Arranged for organ by in 1925 by Sydney Hugo Nicholson (1875–1947)

1. Organ (0:00)
2. Orchestra (7:07)

1. Daniel Cook at the organ of Westminster Abbey
2. London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Adrian Boult, conductor

Notes from IMSLP
"August [of 1892], spent in Cambridge, was devoted entirely to the composition of [this work]" - Dibble, p.236. Unpublished as of 1921, except for a duet published in 1898. "Is it the wind of dawn?"
The unpublished score is in 10 movements for voices and orchestra with lyrics by Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)