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Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (30 September 1852 – 29 March 1924) was an Anglo-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.
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (born Sept. 30, 1852, Dublin—died March 29, 1924, London) was an Anglo-Irish composer, conductor, and teacher who greatly influenced the next generation of British composers; Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir Arthur Bliss, and Gustav Holst were among his pupils.
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Charles Villiers Stanford (1852- 1924) was one of the leading musicians of his generation and had a profound effect on the development and history of English music as a performer, conductor, composer, teacher and writer.
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852- 1924) was one of the leading musicians of his generation and had a profound effect on the development and history of English music as a performer, conductor, composer, teacher and writer. Born in Dublin to a musical family, his musical gifts were recognized early.
Charles Villiers Stanford taught many of Britain’s finest talents - and deserves far greater recognition as a composer in his own right.
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (30 September 1852 – 29 March 1924) 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.
Jan 17, 2022 · Stanford, who was born in Herbert Street in 1852 and died in London in 1924, was a major musical figure in his lifetime and is still known as the teacher of a generation of British composers ...
Feb 23, 2024 · Today we quite rightly venerate the church music of Charles Villiers Stanford. It is without doubt among the most original liturgical creations of its era, and in conceptual terms, surely surpasses even the great motets of Brahms, Bruckner, Cornelius and Reger in its sheer brilliance of symphonicism, formal dexterity and functionality.
Mar 28, 2024 · In 1883, Stanford was appointed as the first professor of composition at the newly-founded Royal College of Music - a post in which he would teach a host of notable composers including Coleridge-Taylor, Clarke, Bliss, Holst, Howells, Ireland and Vaughan Williams.
