Charles Villiers Stanford
- Author: Rodmell, Paul
Rodmell [...] makes one feel that the music [...] is actually worth hearing —
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Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Life and Work: An Anglo-Irish childhood
- Early years at Cambridge
- From proud marriage to operatic fall
- At Cambridge triumphant
- A man about London town
- Appendix: The relationship of the Fifth Symphony to Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso
- A long Edwardian summer
- Last years
- Appraisal and Conclusions: Stanford the pedagogue: conductor and writer
- 'Damned ugly me bhoy' - Stanford the teacher
- Stanford the composer: Every inch an (Anglo-)Irishman?
- Reception, perception and legacy
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index of compositions by Stanford
- General Index.