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Charles Villiers Stanford
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. 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. From 1887 he was also Professor of Music at Cambridge. As a teacher, Stanford was sceptical about modernism, and based his instruction chiefly on classical principles as exemplified in the music of Brahms. Among his pupils were rising composers whose fame went on to surpass his own, such as Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams. As a conductor, Stanford held posts with the Bach Choir and the Leeds Triennial Music Festival. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Villiers_Stanford) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)
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English Romantic Madrigals: Secular Partsongs from Victorian England 2016
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English Choral Music. Motets and Anthems from Byrd to Elgar 2016
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Canticles from St Paul's: Walmisley, Stanford, Wood, Tippett etc. 2014
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The Feast of St Peter the Apostle at Westminster Abbey 2010
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The Feast of St Michael & All Angels at Westminster Abbey 2007
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The Feast of St Edward at Westminster Abbey 2006
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Trinity Sunday at Westminster Abbey 2005
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The Psalms of David 2002
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The English Hymn 3 – Hills of the North, Rejoice (Hymns for the Church Year) 2002
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The Music of St Paul's Cathedral 2000
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Magnificat in B flat - Stanford morphthing1 • 239K views
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Stanford 3 Motets, Op. 38 - University of Louisville Collegiate Chorale OrangeSodaKing • 18K views
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Quick! We Have But a Second | Charles Villiers-Stanford [NDSU Concert Choir] NDSU Concert Choir • 10K views
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Charles Villiers Stanford: Nunc Dimittis in C, op. 115 | The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford Oxford Choral Recordings • 48K views
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C.V. Stanford: "Beati quorum via" (Stanford Chamber Chorale/Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge) Stanford Chamber Chorale • 47K views
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Sonoro: Beati quorum via (Homage to Stanford) by Janet Wheeler Sonoro • 5.3K views