Royal College of Music

STANFORD, Sir Charles Villiers (1852-1924)

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1249 MS 4253

Held at: Royal College of Music

Title: STANFORD, Sir Charles Villiers (1852-1924)

Date(s): early19th century-c1918 (predominantly 1880s-1890s)

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume (c180 items)

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, born Dublin, 30 Sep 1852; educated, Henry Tilney Bassett's school, Dublin; entered Queens' College, Cambridge, as choral scholar, 1870; elected assistant conductor to Cambridge University Musical Society (CUMS), 1871; appointed organist of Trinity College, 1873; third class in classical tripos, 1874; studied in Germany with Carl Reinecke, Robert Papperitz and Friedrich Kiel, 1874-1876; received acclaim for a number of his compositions, including his First Symphony (second prize, Alexandra Palace competition, 1876) and incidental music for Tennyson's play Queen Mary (1876); resumed as conductor of CUMS, 1877; used CUMS to bring major artists to Cambridge, performed as pianist in chamber concerts there and conducted first English performances of works by Brahms; as organist of Trinity (resigned 1892), composed some of his most well known sacred music including his Morning, Communion and Evening Services in B flat (1879) and was responsible for bringing major performers to Trinity for organ recitals; appointed Professor of Composition and conductor of the orchestra, Royal College of Music, 1883; appointed Professor of Music, Cambridge University, 1887; oversaw centenary celebrations for CUMS, 1893; conductor of the Bach Choir, (1886-1902), Leeds Philharmonic Society (1897-1909) and Leeds Triennial Festival (1901-1910); knighted, 1902; died, London, 29 Mar 1924. Selected publications: Studies and Memories (London, 1908); Musical Composition: a Short Treatise for Students (London, 1911); Brahms and his Music (London, 1912); Pages from an Unwritten Diary (London, 1914); Interludes, Records and Reflections (London,1922).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Autograph book of Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, early 19th century-c1918 (predominantly 1880s-1890s), mostly comprising short letters addressed to Stanford on musical or personal matters, with a few poems and fragments of manuscript music. The collection also includes a few autographs only, and some fragments not contemporary with Stanford. Correspondents include: Emma Albani; Albert Edward, Prince of Wales; Matthew Arnold; Arthur Balfour; W Sterndale Bennett; Edward W Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury; Arrigo Boito; Hans von Bronsart; J Brahms; Robert Bridges; John Bright MP; Robert Browning; Max Bruch; Alfred Bruneau; John Burns; Joseph Chamberlain; D M Crack; K Crowe; Anton Dvorak; George Eliot; G J Elwey; Franco Faccio; Robert Franz; Alexander Glazunov; John Glover; Arabella Goddard; Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt; Otto Goldschmidt; Edward Grieg; Madge Kendel Grimstone; Eugen Gura; H Rider Haggard; Charles Hallé; Ferdinand Heller; F Halévy; J L Hatton; Henry Irving; Jean Ingelow; Joseph Joachim; Friedrich Kiel; Charles Kingsley; Rudyard Kipling; Marie Krebs; Lord Leighton; Franz Liszt; Henry Longfellow; Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; G Macfarren; A C Mackenzie; Herbert Mackinnon; Norma Mare; Hubert Parry; Adelina Patti; Guido Papini; Alfred Piatti; Maria Piccolomini; Giacomo Puccini; Carl Reinecke; Brinley Richards; Hans Richter; Earl Roberts of Kandahar and Pretoria; Carl Rosa; Christina Rossetti; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Anton Rubenstein; Camille Saint Saens; Prosper Sainton; Charles Santley; Clara Schumann; Robert Schumann; J Palgrave Simpson; Camillo Sivori; Robert Louis Stevenson; Richard Strauss; Arthur Sullivan; Lawrence Alma-Tadema; D Tagliafino; Sigismond Thalberg; Tom Taylor; John Tenniel; Alfred Tennyson; Ellen Terry; P Tchaikovsky; Giuseppe Verdi; Pauline Viardot; Richard Wagner; Walt Whitman; Charles Marie Widor; August Wilhelmj; W G Wills; H F Wilson; Edmund Yates.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Mostly arranged in alphabetical order by surname of correspondent.

Conditions governing access:

Usual conditions of the Library of the Royal College of Music apply. See the RCM website or contact the RCM Library for details.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopying is permitted at the discretion of the Archivist for research purposes only.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

A typescript detailed list of correspondents accompanies the volume.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated to the College by the trustees of the estate of Guy Stanford, 1954.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Compositions by and correspondence of Stanford are held by British Library Music and Manuscript Collections; Cambridge University Library; Trinity College, Cambridge University; National Library of Ireland; Robinson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne University; King's College, Cambridge University; Fitzwiliam Museum, Cambridge University; Brotherton Library, Leeds University. See the National Register of Archives for further details.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Robert Baxter as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. Sources: National Register of Archives; article on Stanford by Jeremy Dibble, Grove Dictionary of Music.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jul 2001

INDEX ENTRIES

Subjects
Classical music | Musical styles
Composers | Musicians | Performers | Artists
Music | Performing arts

Personal names
Albani | Dame | Emma Marie Louise Cecile | 1847-1930 | Canadian soprano
Arnold | Matthew | 1822-1888 | poet and critic
Balfour | Arthur James | 1848-1930 | 1st Earl of Balfour | statesman x Balfour | 1st Earl of
Bartholdy | Jacob Ludwig Felix | Mendelssohn- | 1809-1847 | composer x Mendelssohn | Felix
Bennett | Sir | William Sterndale | 1816-1875 | Knight | composer
Benson | Edward White | 1829-1896 | Archbishop of Canterbury
Boito | Arrigo Enrico | 1842-1918 | Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic
Brahms | Johannes | 1833-1897 | composer and pianist
Brenning | Marie | Krebs- | 1851-1900 | German pianist x Krebs | Mary
Bridges | Robert Seymour | 1844-1930 | Poet Laureate
Bright | John | 1811-1889 | politician
Browning | Robert | 1812-1889 | poet
Bruch | Max | 1838-1920 | composer and conductor
Bruneau | Alfred | 1857-1934 | French composer
Burns | John Elliot | 1858-1943 | politician and trade unionist
Chamberlain | Joseph | 1836-1914 | statesman
Cross | Mary Anne | 1819-1880 | nee Evans | novelist x Eliot | George x Evans | Mary Ann x Evans | Marian x Lewes | Marian Evans
Dvorak | Antonin Leopold | 1841-1904 | Czech composer
Edward VII | 1841-1910 | King of Great Britain and Ireland
Faccio | Franco | 1840-1891 | Italian conductor and composer
Franz | Robert | 1815-1892 | German composer x Knauth | Robert
Glazunov | Aleksandr Konstantinovich | 1865-1936 | Russian composer
Glover | John William | 1815-1899 | Irish conductor, composer and teacher
Goddard | Arabella | 1836-1922 | pianist
Goldschmidt | Otto | 1829-1907 | pianist and composer
Grieg | Edvard Hagerup | 1843-1907 | Norwegian composer
Gura | Eugen | 1842-1906 | German bass-baritone
Haggard | Sir | Henry | Rider | 1856-1925 | Knight | novelist x Rider Haggard | Sir Henry
Halevy | Fromental | 1799-1862 | French composer, teacher and writer on music
Halle | Sir | Charles | 1819-1895 | Knight | pianist and conductor
Hatton | John Liptrot | 1808-1886 | composer
Ingelow | Jean | 1820-1897 | poet and author x Orris
Irving | Sir | Henry | 1838-1905 | Knight | actor
Joachim | Joseph | 1831-1907 | violinist
Kiel | Friedrich | 1821-1885 | German composer
Kingsley | Charles | 1819-1875 | Canon of Westminster | author
Kipling | Rudyard | 1865-1936 | author
Leighton | Frederic | 1830-1896 | Baron Leighton of Stretton | painter x Leighton of Stretton | Baron
Lind | Johanna Maria | 1820-1887 | afterwards Lind-Goldschmidt | Swedish soprano called Jenny Lind x Goldschmidt | Jenny | Lind- x Lind-Goldschmidt | Jenny x Lind | Jenny
Liszt | Franz | 1811-1886 | Hungarian composer, pianist and teacher
Longfellow | Henry Wadsworth | 1807-1882 | American poet
Macfarren | Sir | George Alexander | 1813-1887 | Knight | musical composer
Mackenzie | Sir | Alexander Campbell | 1847-1935 | Knight | composer
Papini | Guido | 1847-1912 | Italian violinist and composer
Parry | Sir | Charles Hubert Hastings | 1848-1918 | Knight | composer and musical writer
Patti | Adelina | 1843-1919 | Italian soprano
Piccolomini | Marietta | 1834-1899 | Italian soprano
Puccini | Giacomo | 1858-1924 | Italian composer
Reinecke | Carl Heinrich Carsten | 1824-1910 | German composer, teacher, administrator, pianist and conductor
Richards | Henry Brinley | 1817-1885 | Welsh pianist
Richter | Hans Baptist Isidor | 1843-1916 | Austro-Hungarian conductor
Roberts | Frederick Sleigh | 1832-1914 | 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford | Field Marshal x Roberts of Kandahar, pretoria and Waterford | 1st Earl
Rosa | Carl August Nikolaus | 1842-1889 | German impresario, violinist and conductor
Rossetti | Christina Georgina | 1830-1894 | poet
Rossetti | Dante Gabriel | 1828-1882 | painter and poet
Rubinstein | Anton Grigoryevich | 1829-1894 | Russian pianist, composer, conductor and teacher
Saens | Charles Camille | Saint- | 1835-1921 | French pianist organist and composer x Saint-Saens | Camille
Sainton | Prosper Philippe Catherine | 1813-1890 | French violinist and composer
Santley | Sir | Charles | 1834-1922 | Knight | singer
Schellendorf | Hans August Alexander | Bronsart von | 1830-1913 | German composer, pianist and conductor x Bronsart von Schellendorf | Hans x von Schellendorf | Hans | Bronsart x von Bronsart | Hans x Bronsart | Hans | von
Schumann | Clara Josephine | 1819-1896 | née Weick | musician x Weick | Clara Josephine
Schumann | Robert | 1810-1856 | German composer
Simpson | John Palgrave | 1807-1887 | dramatist and novelist
Sivori | Camillo | 1815-1894 | Italian violinist and composer
Stanford | Sir | Charles Villiers | 1852-1924 | Knight | composer and conductor
Stevenson | Robert Louis | 1850-1894 | author and traveller
Strauss | Richard Georg | 1864-1949 | German composer
Sullivan | Sir | Arthur Seymour | 1842-1900 | Knight | composer
Tadema | Sir | Lawrence | Alma- | 1836-1912 | Knight | painter x Alma-Tadema | Lawrence
Tagliafico | Joseph Dieudonne | 1821-1900 | French singer
Taylor | Tom | 1817-1880 | dramatist and editor of Punch
Tchaikovsky | Peter Ilyich | 1840-1893 | Russian composer
Tenniel | Sir | John | 1820-1914 | Knight | cartoonist
Tennyson | Alfred | 1809-1892 | 1st Baron Tennyson | poet x Tennyson | 1st Baron
Terry | Dame | Alice Ellen | 1847-1928 | actress
Thalberg | Sigismond Fortune Francois | 1812-1871 | German or Austrian pianist and composer
Verdi | Giuseppe | 1813-1901 | Italian composer and musician
Viardot | Pauline | 1821-1910 | French singer and composer
Wagner | Wilhelm Richard | 1813-1883 | German composer
Whitman | Walt | 1819-1892 | American poet
Widor | Charles Marie Jean Albert | 1844-1937 | French organist, composer and teacher
Wilhelmi | August | 1845-1908 | Vorgeiger of Bayreuther Nibelungen-Orchesters, 1886
Wills | William Gorman | 1828-1891 | Irish playwright
Yates | Edmund Hodgson | 1831-1894 | novelist

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