Charles Villiers Stanford (Composer)
Born: 30th September 1852, Dublin
Died: 29th March 1924, London
Nationality: Irish
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic era. 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.
While still an undergraduate, Stanford was appointed organist of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1882, aged 29, he was one of the founding professors of the Royal College of Music, where he taught composition for the rest of his life.
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Popular Works: Stanford
- A Lullaby Op. 19 No. 2 (Thomas Dekker) (1882) (3)
- A soft day (4)
- A Song of Wisdom Op. 113 (3)
- Beati quorum via, Op. 38 No. 3 (7)
- Benedictus (from the Service in B flat) (3)
- Bible Songs, Op. 113 (3)
- Communion Service in B flat, Op. 10 (4)
- Communion Service in C major, Op. 115 (3)
- Diaphenia (Damelus' Song To His Diaphenia), Op. 49 (3)
- Drake's Drum (3)
- Evening Service (Magnificat & Nunc dimittis) in G major, Op. 81 (3)
- Fantasia and Toccata in D minor, Op. 57 (2)
- Irish Rhapsody No. 1 in D minor Op. 78 'To Hans Richter' (3)
- Justorum animae, Op. 38 No. 1 (3)
- Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B flat, Op. 10 (3)
- My love's an arbutus (5)
- O for a closer walk with God, Op. 113 No. 6 (6)
- Oh praise God in his holiness (Psalm 150) (4)
- Praise to the Lord (3)
- Pray that Jerusalem (3)
- Purest And Highest (4)
- Quick! We have but a second (5)
- Requiem (3)
- Songs of the Fleet, Op. 117 (3)
- Songs of the Sea, Op. 91 (4)
- Symphony No. 3 in F minor 'Irish', Op. 28 (3)
- Symphony No. 4 in F major, Op. 31 (3)
- Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 124 (3)
- Te Deum laudamus (6)
- The Blue Bird, Op. 119 No. 3 (8)
- The Fairy Lough Op. 77 No. 2, from An Irish Idyll in Six Miniatures (1901) (3)
- The Merry Month of May (3)
- The Pibroch Op. 157 No. 1, from Songs of a Roving Celt (Murdoch Maclean) (1918) (3)
- The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet (4)
- Three Latin Motets, Op. 38 (4)
- Trottin' to the Fair (from 'Songs of Erin' Op. 76) (A P Graves) (1900) (3)
- When In Our Music God is Glorified (15)
- When Mary thro' the garden went (3)
- Windy Nights Op. 30 No. 4 (Robert Louis Stevenson) (1885) (3)
- Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem, Op. 123 (4)
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