Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic era. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was educated at the University of Cambridge before studying music in Leipzig and Berlin. He was instrumental in raising the status of the Cambridge University Musical Society, attracting international stars to perform with it.
- Occupation
- classical composer, music educator, university teacher, composer
- Position held
- conductor, composer
- Citizenship
- Ireland, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- September 30, 1852, 1852
