By

CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD

30th September 1852   ---   29th March 1924

Charles Villiers Stanford a Irish Composer, was born in Dublin on September 1852.   After studying in London under Ernst Pauer he won in 1870
a scolarship  at Queen's College,  Cambridge,  whence he migrated to Trinity Collage in 1873,  and succeeded J.L.Hopkins as college organist,  a
post he held till 1892. His appointment as conductor of the Cambridge University Musical Society gave him great opportunities. In 1874 to 1877
he visited Germany each year, studying under Reinecke and Kiel.

His first  important composition was incidental music  to Tennyson's Queen  Mary at the Lyceum,  1876.  In 1881 his opera The Veiled Prophet,
was given at Hanover, followed by Savonarola, at Hamburg and Covent Gardens, in 1884, then The Canterbury Pilgrims, at Drury Lane 1884. A
long interval separates these from his later operas, Shamus O'Brien, the least pretending but most successful of his dramtic works, and others
Opera Comique 1896 and Much Ado About Nothing, Convert Gardens 1901.

Meanwhile he had been appointed professor of composition at the Royal College of Music in 1883,  conductor of the bach choir, 1885,  became
professor of music in the university of Cambridge, succeeding Sir G.A.Macfarren, 1887, conductor of the Leeds Philharmonic Society, 1887, and
of the Leeds Festival from 1901.

He was knighted in 1902, died in London in London March 1924.  His instrumental works include six symphonies, many chamber compositions,
among them two string quartets,  also he did many songs and part songs, madrigals etc.  His last operatic work was The Travelling Companion
posthumously produced in 1926, also his church music and editions of Irish and other songs are well known.

Copyright 1953 Encyclopaedia Britannica

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