Stanford, Sir Charles Villiers, 1852-1924 (Knight, composer and conductor)
Dates
- Existence: 1852 - 1924
Biography
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) was born in Dublin on 30 September 1852. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became the organist, and studied music in Germany. He was Professor of Composition and Orchestral Playing at the Royal College of Music, London, 1887-1924, and conductor of the Bach Choir, London, 1885-1902. Stanford composed seven symphonies for orchestra, and was a prolific writer of chamber music. He was knighted in 1902, and died in Cambridge on 29 March 1924.
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence of Sir Charles V. Stanford (1852-1924), 10 Apr. 1888-21 Dec. 1914 (Circa)
Corrrespondence of Sir Charles V. Stanford (1852-1924), 26 Oct. 1894-12 Nov. 1894 (Circa)
Hugh Fraser Stewart and family: Correspondence and Papers
Letter from C.V. Stanford and G.W. Prothero to J. Peile, 18 June 1892
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Includes correspondence, verses, notes and miscellaneous papers.
Letter from Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, 22 Dec. 1919
Letters to Owen Seaman, many accepting or declining invitations to a dinner of the Royal Literary Fund in 1912.
Letter from Sir Charles Villiers Stanford to John Willis Clark, 14 June 1893
He left various things at Clark's, including proof sheets of 'The Veiled Prophets'
Letter from Sir Charles Villiers Stanford to John Willis Clark, 6 Feb. 1893
Invitation to Clark and Mrs Clark to meet him in Paris
Letter from Sir Charles Villiers Stanford to John Willis Clark, 5 Mar. 1894
Programme for his visit to Cambridge
Memorial to the Vice Chancellor, 16 June 1892
Sir Charles V. Stanford: Letters to Alfred Littleton
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: Correspondence to John Peile and Francis Jenkinson, 1893-1921
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: Notes on first Bayreuth Festival
Pencil notes on the first Bayreuth Festival in 1876.
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: Symphony no. 7, Op. 124.
Autograph. 58 folios
STANFORD, Charles Villiers, 31 Jan. 1892
Single letter from Charles Stanford to Horace Darwin dated 31 January 1892 in which Stanford sets out the difficulties and his objections to a proposed marriage between Francis Jenkinson and Mildred Wetton, the sister of Jenkinson's late wife Marian Wetton. Marriage between a man and his dead wife's sister was then forbidden until the passing of The Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act in 1907.
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