In 1938, he was appointed organist and head of the choir school at All Saints, Margaret Street, in the Marylebone district of London. Lloyd Webber's earliest known composition is the 'remarkably assured' Fantasy Trio in B minor for violin, cello and piano of 1936 (which didn't receive its premiere until 1995). Because there was already another student at the college with the name William Webber, William continued to use his second middle name 'Lloyd' from then on as part of his last name.

He won an organ scholarship to the Mercers' School, later winning a further scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music, where he studied with Ralph Vaughan Williams and gained his FRCO diploma at nineteen. īy the age of 14, William Lloyd Webber had already become a well-known organ recitalist, giving frequent performances at many churches and cathedrals throughout Great Britain. Often he would take his son with him and, before long, young William started to play the organ himself and developed a keen interest that bordered on the obsessional. The son of William Charles Henry Webber, a self-employed plumber, he was fortunate that his father was a keen organ ' buff' who spent what little money he had travelling to hear various organs in and around the capital. He also notably served as a teacher, instructing pupils on music theory at the Royal College of Music for many years until his death in 1982. Besides his long and prestigious career, composing works ranging from choral pieces to instrumental items and more, he is known for being the father of both fellow composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and virtuoso cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. William Southcombe Lloyd Webber CBE (11 March 1914 – 29 October 1982) was an English organist and composer, who achieved some fame as a part of the modern classical music movement whilst commercially facing mixed opportunities.

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