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An irascible Ulsterman, this composer is probably most widely remembered for his many beautiful anthems and service settings within the cathedral tradition, but he also wrote songs, chamber music and concerti. His greatest musical legacy, though, is perhaps in the roster of next-generation composers whom he nurtured at the Royal College of Music in London ~ where he was a founding Professor ~ among them Holst and Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Bliss and Frank Bridge (later to be a mentor to Benjamin Britten, who became a grand-pupil of this original composer of whom we are currently thinking).
Who was he?
Jack Strachey
John Stainer
Charles Villiers Stanford
Arthur Sullivan