biography
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Ireland, John (Nicholson)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1879–1962)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Bowdon, Greater Manchester, NW England, UK. He studied under Charles Stanford at the Royal College of Music, London, where he later became a teacher of composition. He established his reputation with his Violin Sonata in A (1917), and between the wars was a prominent member of the English musical renaissance. He is best known for his picturesque orchestral pieces The Forgotten Rite (1913) and Mai-dun (1921), the piano concerto (1930), and These Things Shall Be (1937) for chorus and orchestra. |
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