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Ireland, John Nicholson 1879-1962
English composer
Born in Bowdon, Cheshire, he studied composition under Charles Stanford at the Royal College of Music, London. His poetic feelings, inspired by ancient traditions and places, are in evidence in such works as the orchestral prelude The Forgotten Rite (1913) of the Channel Islands, and the rhapsody Mai-dun (1921) of the Wessex countryside. He established his reputation with his Violin Sonata in A (1917), and between the wars was a prominent member of the English musical renaissance. The piano concerto (1930) and These Things Shall Be (1937) for chorus and orchestra feature strongly among his later works, which include song settings of poems by Thomas Hardy, John Masefield, A E Housman and others.
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