I recently mentioned 2024 as a year for remembering the centenary of a number of composers’ births or deaths. One such is Charles Villiers Stanford who was born in Dublin’s Herbert Street on September 30, 1852 and died in London on 29 March, 1924. Ideals of Brahms Stanford’s music is akin to the romantic ideals…
The current year celebrates a number of musical centenaries not least those of the deaths of France’s Gabriel Fauré and Dublin-born Charles Villiers Stanford who became a particularly potent figure in the musical life of the UK where he was professor of music at Cambridge from 1887 until his death. Now maybe best remembered for…