1852–1924 British composer Born in Dublin where he studied the organ, Stanford moved to London at the age of 10 to study the piano with Ernst Pauer. At Cambridge he was organist of Trinity College (1873–92) and founder-conductor of the Cambridge University Musical Society, where he gave the premieres of many of Brahms’ works. He also studied in Leipzig ...
passed through filters that can strip away or accentuate certain harmonics. Most analogue synthesizers employ subtractive techniques. • FM (Frequency Modulation): devised in the early 1970s by John Chowning at Stanford University, FM was licensed to Yamaha for use in their DX instruments. FM involves the frequency of one waveform being used to modulate (modify or influence) the frequency of ...
, Serenade in D, Sophie Langdon, Richard Watkins, BBC PO (cond) Odaline de la Martinez (Chandos) Introduction | Late Romantic | Classical Personalities | (Sir) Charles Villiers Stanford | Late Romantic | Classical ...
1879–1962 English composer Ireland’s style is fundamentally English, drawing on his teacher, Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924), and on Edward Elgar (1857–1934), but he was fruitfully aware of Ravel and Debussy and, more guardedly, of the young Stravinsky. His attractive Piano Concerto (1930), London overture (1936) and his Satyricon (1946) have an agreeable wit; in other works he ...
1872–1958 English composer Vaughan Williams studied with Parry, Stanford and, in Berlin, with Bruch, but was slow to find his unique personal voice. This was released by his study of English folksong (which he began collecting in 1903) and of Tudor church music, and by a further period of study with Ravel in 1908. He realized ...
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