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{{Short description|British composer}}
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'''Brian Chapple''' (born 1945, London) is a British composer who has won the BBC Monarchy 1000 prize and been featured on the [[BBC Proms]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Chester Novello Biography. |url=http://www.chesternovello.com/default.aspx?TabId=2431&State_2905=2&composerId_2905=252|accessdate=2 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051223200501/http://www.chesternovello.com/default.aspx?TabId=2431&State_2905=2&composerId_2905=252|archive-date=23 December 2005}}</ref> He was educated at [[Highgate School]]{{cn|date=August 2024}} and studied at the [[Royal Academy of Music]] with [[Lennox Berkeley]].

Chapple's "Hymn to God the Father", which was commissioned by [[Wells Cathedral]] for its new music festival 2014, was premiered by the Cathedral Choir on 13 May 2014.

==Compositions include==
*''Green and Pleasant'', prize-winning entry for the BBC Monarchy 1000 prize in 1973
*''Scherzos'' for four pianos
*Choral symphony ''In Ecclesiis''
*''Piano Concerto''
*''In The Pink''
*''Venus Fly Trap''
*''Keeping Busy''
*''Missa Brevis''
*''Tango''
*''Little Symphony''
*''Lamentations of Jeremiah''
*''Ave Verum Corpus'' 
*''Cantica''
*''Magnificat''
*''Songs of Innocence''
*''In Memoriam''
*''Three Motets''
*''Five Blake Songs''
*''Five Shakespeare Songs''
*Five volumes of piano pieces: ''In the Pink, Lazy Days, On the Cool Side, Swing's The Thing, Home and Dry''
*''Bagatelles Diverses''
*''Six Bagatelles for organ''
*''Three Sacred Pieces''
*''Ecce lignum crucis''
*''St Paul's Service''
*''Burlesque''
*''Missa Brevis Exoniensis''
*''What Child is this?''
*''Safe where I cannot lie yet''
*''Praeludiana for Organ (1973)''

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