Sir Charles Villiers Stanford 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.
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Stanford in 1921
Stanford's parents, John and Mary Stanford
Stanford aged 12
The Leipzig conservatory
Stanford as a young man
Performing in Cambridge for Stanford, clockwise from top left: Joachim, Richter, Piatti and Dannreuther
Stanford's pupils included (clockwise from top left) Coleridge-Taylor, Holst, Vaughan Williams and Ireland.
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Sir Charles Villiers Stanford 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. He was instrumental in raising the status of the Cambridge University Musical Society, attracting international stars to perform with it.
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