found: His Three carol preludes, c1985:t.p. (Richard Purvis)
found: Gaylord Library on WWW(Purvis, Richard; American organist-choirmaster and composer; b. Aug. 25, 1913, d. Dec. 24 or 25, 1994)
found: Anderson, E.R. Contemporary Amer. composers, 2nd ed.(Purvis, Richard; b. 1915, San Francisco, Calif.)
found: Arnold, C.R. Organ literature, 3rd ed.(Purvis, Richard Irven; b. Aug. 25, 1917, San Francisco, Calif.)
found: Grovemusic WWW site, Apr. 30, 2002(Purvis, Richard (Irven); b. Aug. 25, 1913, San Francisco, d. Dec. 25, 1994, San Francisco; American organist)
found: Henderson, J. Dir. of composers for organ, c1999(Richard Irven Purvis; b. 1913, d. 1994, USA; organist and composer; "sometimes ... used both 1915 and 1917 as his birth year. 1913 is definitely correct")
found: Social Security death index, April 11, 2013(Richard Purvis; born August 25, 1913, died December 25, 1994; last known residence: San Francisco, Calif.)
notfound: Ww in Amer. mus., classical, 1st-2nd eds.;Int. ww in mus., 7th-14th eds.;New Grove dict. of Amer. mus.;Baker, 8th ed.;ASCAP, 3rd-4th eds.
