Charles Villiers Stanford
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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David Parry on Stanford's Shamus O'Brien
The conductor discusses his recent recording of Stanford's tuneful 1896 opera, set in the Cork mountains during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 - enormously popular in the early years of its life, the work was withdrawn by the composer in the years leading up to the Easter Rising.
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Stanford String Quartets from the Dante Quartet
David talks to violinist Krysia Osostowicz and musicologist Jeremy Dibble about the final volume in the Dante Quartet's Stanford cycle.
Popular Genres: Stanford
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Popular Works: Stanford
- A soft day (7)
- A Song of Peace, Op. 113, No. 4 (6)
- A Song of Wisdom Op. 113 (7)
- An Irish Idyll (6)
- Beati quorum via, Op. 38 No. 3 (46)
- Clarinet Concerto in A Minor, Op. 80 (7)
- Clarinet Sonata, Op. 129 (12)
- Coelos Ascendit Hodie, Op. 38 No. 2 (29)
- Complete Morning & Evening Service in G major, Op. 81 (11)
- Evening Service (Magnificat & Nunc dimittis) in G major, Op. 81 (14)
- Evening Service in G, Op. 81: Magnificat (7)
- Fantasia and Toccata in D minor, Op. 57 (16)
- For lo, I raise up, Op. 145 (28)
- How beauteous are their feet (8)
- Hymns (6), Op. 113 (6)
- Intermezzi (3), Op. 13 (7)
- Justorum animae, Op. 38 No. 1 (33)
- La Belle Dame sans merci (John Keats) (1877) (11)
- Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in A, Op. 12 (6)
- Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B flat, Op. 10 (6)
- Magnificat in B flat for double choir, Op. 164 (9)
- Morning, Evening and Communion Services in C Op. 115 (12)
- O for a closer walk with God, Op. 113 No. 6 (10)
- Oh praise God in his holiness (Psalm 150) (8)
- Organ Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 151 'Eroica' (6)
- Organ Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 152 'Britannica' (6)
- Organ Sonata No. 4, Op. 153 'Celtica' (6)
- Part-songs (8), Op. 119 (18)
- Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op. 126 (6)
- Six Short Preludes & Postludes Set 2 Op. 105 (7)
- Songs of the Fleet, Op. 117 (7)
- Songs of the Sea, Op. 91 (8)
- Symphony No. 3 in F minor 'Irish', Op. 28 (6)
- Te Deum (from Service in C major, Op 115) (9)
- Te deum in B flat (10)
- The Blue Bird, Op. 119 No. 3 (33)
- The Fairy Lough Op. 77 No. 2, from An Irish Idyll in Six Miniatures (1901) (9)
- The Lord is my shepherd (12)
- Three Latin Motets, Op. 38 (15)
- Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem, Op. 123 (13)
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