Concert Piece for Organ, Brass, Tympani and Strings by C.V. Stanford
Includes 3 files:MP4 file with visual and aural click track; MP4 file with visual click track only; PDF score for practice
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Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 – 1924) was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic period. He was born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin.
While still an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, Stanford was appointed organist of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1882, aged 29, he was one of the founding professors of the royal College of Music, where he taught composition. Among his pupils were rising composers whose fame went on to surpass his own, such as Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Stanford's Concert Piece for Organ and Orchestra was written in 1921 just three years before the composer's death. The mood is majestic and the organ is often at the forefront. In Stanford's day, it was rejected by a number of publishers, perhaps a victim of the changing tastes in music.