STANFORD, SIR Charles Vii liers, English composer: b. Dublin, 30 Sept. 1852. He was educated at Cambridge, and continued his musical studies at Leipzig and Berlin. In 1877 a festival overture in B flat by him was performed at the Gloucester Festival, and a symphony at the Crystal Palace. Since that date he has produced numerous compositions in different styles, several of which have achieved a considerable degree of popularity. His best-known work is probably his choral setting of Tennyson's ballad of 'The Revenge,' which was produced at the Leeds Festival in 1886. His operas include 'The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan' (1::1) ; (1884) ; 'Shamus O'Brien' (1896)' and 'Much Ado About Nothing' (1901). In oratorio he has produced 'The Three Holy Children' (1885), and 'Eden' (1891), both written for Birmingham Festivals. His symphonies are an 'Elegiac Symphony' (1882) ; an 'Irish Symphony> (1887) ; a 'Sym phony in F> (1888) ; and 'L'Allegro ed it Pen seroso> (1895). The most important of his
other works may be thus enumerated: a setting of Whitman's elegiac ode on the death of Lin coln (1884) ; settings of the three cavalier songs by Browning (1884) ; music for tEschylus' 'Eumenides' (1885) and Sophocles' Rex' (1887) ; settings of some psalms; a violin suite (1888) ; 'The Battle of the Baltic' (1891), a ballad for chorus and orchestra; string quar tets; pianoforte sonatas; an ode on the opening of the Chicago Exhibition, the words being by Swinburne; masses, and Irish fantasies for the violin (1894). On the foundation of the Royal College of Music, in 1883, Dr. Stanford was ap pointed professor of composition and orchestral playing, and in 1887 professor of music at Cam bridge. He was knighted in 1902.