{{Short description|English organist, choral conductor and music editor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:The angel gabriel.gif|thumb|200px|Pettman's arrangement of ''Gabriel's Message'']] '''Edgar Pettman''' (1866&ndash;1943)<ref>[http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/c.asp?c=C2233&f=dvd Hyperion Records]</ref> was an English organist, choral conductor and music editor.

Born at Dunkirk, Kent in 1881, Pettman entered the Royal Academy of Music<ref>[http://passageisland.stepcast.com/ComposerBiographies2009.pdf Composer biographies] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716134423/http://passageisland.stepcast.com/ComposerBiographies2009.pdf |date=2011-07-16 }}, accessed 22 November 2010</ref> where he studied under Sir George Macfarren.<ref>Raymond F. Glover, ''The hymnal 1982 companion: Service music and biographies'', Volume 2, 1994, p.565</ref> He was organist at a number of London churches, including St Sepulchre's, Holborn, St Mary's, Kilburn and St James's Church, Piccadilly until his retirement in 1924.<ref name=carol/><ref name=cole>Suzanne Cole, ''Thomas Tallis and his music in Victorian England'', Volume 4 of ''Music in Britain, 1600-1900'', (Boydell Press, 2008) {{ISBN|978-1-84383-380-2}} p.160</ref>

Composer of a number of anthems and other church music,<ref>Musical news: Volume 16, 1899</ref> he is best known for his 1892 book ''Modern Christmas Carols.''<ref name=carol>Edgar Pettman, ''Modern Christmas carols'' (Weekes & Co., 1892)</ref> Pettman harmonized the now popular carols ''I Saw a Maiden'' and ''Gabriel's Message'', both based on Basque carol melodies, publishing the latter in a pamphlet, ''The University Carol Book'' in 1922, with an English rendering by Sabine Baring-Gould.<ref>[https://hymnology.hymnsam.co.uk/t/the-angel-gabriel-from-heaven-came Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, ''The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came'']</ref> He was also an early editor of the works of Thomas Tallis, publishing an edition in 1900.<ref name=cole/>

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