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Stanford, Sir Charles Villiers 1852-1924
Irish composer
Born in Dublin, he studied at Cambridge, Leipzig and Berlin, and became organist at Trinity College (1872-93), and a professor at the Royal College of Music (1882). As Cambridge Professor of Music (1887), he taught generations of young British composers. Among his works are choral settings of Tennyson's Revenge (1886) and Voyage of Maeldune (1889); the oratorios The Three Holy Children (1885) and Eden (1891); the operas The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan (1881), Savonarola, The Canterbury Pilgrims (1884), Shamus O'Brien (1896), Much Ado About Nothing (1901) and The Critic (1916); and church music, notably his church service in B flat (1879, revised 1910).
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