biography
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Stanford, Sir Charles (Villiers)
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| (1852–1924)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Dublin, Ireland. He studied at Cambridge, Leipzig, and Berlin, and became organist at Trinity College (1872–93), professor in the Royal College of Music (1883), and professor of music at Cambridge (1887). He wrote several major choral works, six operas, seven symphonies, and a great deal of chamber music, songs, and English Church music. He was knighted in 1901. |
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