Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (September 30, 1852 - 29 March 1924) was an Irish composer. Stanford was born in Dublin, the only son of John Stanford, examiner in the Court of Chancery (Dublin) and clerk of the Crown, County Meath. Both parents were accomplished amateur musicians; his father sang bass and his mother was a pianist. Charles trained under R. M. Levey (violin), Miss Meeke, Mrs Joseph Robinson, … Wikipedia
Even those listeners with little more than a nodding acquaintance of Stanford's music may have reflected that the works they know often seem to have a doppelgnger elsewhere in his vast output. www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/2003/Oct03/Stanford_Couples.htm
Stanford: Symphony No. 3 in F minor, Op. 28, "Irish" (1887) by Jeremy Dibble, University of Durham, England www.americansymphony.org/dialogues_extensions/2003_04seas...
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