Charles Villiers Stanford: Man and Musician

Substantially revised and expanded edition that sheds new light on Stanford's career as composer, conductor and teacher, as well as promoter of opera in English and arranger of Irish folk music.

I. Early Influences and Impressions, 1852-1870
1 Dublin, Family and Friends
2 Childhood: Dublin in the 1850s and 1860s

II. Formative Years, 1870-1887
3 Cambridge and the Wanderjahre (Leipzig and Berlin, 1870-1876)
4 A Promising Future: The Cambridge University Musical Society, Opera and a Revolution in Church Music (1877-1882)
5 The Royal College of Music (1883-1887): Disappointment and Revival

III. Recognition, 1888-1901
6 The Cambridge Professorship: Reform and International Acclaim (1888-1892)
7 Removal from Cambridge, the CUMS Jubilee and the Focus of London (1892-1895)
8 Shamus O'Brien, the Requiem and the Leeds Philharmonic Society (1896-1900)

IV. The New Generation, 1901-1914
9 The Leeds Festival, Knighthood and the New Generation (1901-1909)
10 Resignation from Leeds, Patriotism and Political Isolation (1910-1914)

V. War and Decline, 1914-1924
11 The War (1914-1918)
12 The Last Years (1918-1924)