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Charles Villiers Stanford : man and musician
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- Creator
- Jeremy Dibble
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Revised and expanded edition
- Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, 2024
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- xxvi, 701 pages : illustrations, portraits, music, facsimiles ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1783277955, 9781783277957
- OCLC
- on1430474388
- This revised edition of Dibble's biography of Stanford offers new musical and biographical information, and draws upon a wider range of sources, including recordings which were unavailable at the time of the first edition. With a preface, list of works (p. 607-650), bibliography, and indices. Illustrations, music examples, and tables.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Early Influences and Impressions, 1852-70 -- Dublin, Family, and Friends -- Childhood: Dublin in the 1850s and 1860s -- Formative Years, 1870-87 -- Cambridge and the Wanderjahre (Leipzig and Berlin) (1870-6) -- A Promising Future: The Cambridge University Musical Society, Opera, and a Revolution in Church Music (1877-82) -- The Royal College of Music (1883-7): Disappointment and Revival -- Recognition, 1888-1901 -- The Cambridge Professorship: Reform and International Acclaim (1888-92) -- Removal from Cambridge, the CUMS Jubilee, and the Focus of London (1892-5) -- Shamus O'Brien, the Requiem, and the Leeds Philharmonic Society (1896-1900) -- The New Generation, 1901-14 -- The Leeds Festival, Knighthood, and the New Generation (1901-9) -- Resignation from Leeds, Patriotism, and Political Isolation (1910-14) -- War and Decline, 1914-24 -- The War (1914-18) -- The Last Years (1918-24)