Table of Contents

List of Plates
Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
I. Early Life and Influences 1852-18701: Dublin, Family, and Friends
2: Childhood: Dublin in the 1850s and 60s
II. Formative Years 1870-18873: Cambridge and Wanderjahren (Leipzig and Berlin) (1870-77)
4: A Promising Future: The Cambridge University Musical Society, Opera, and a Revolution in church Music (1877-1882)
5: The Royal College of Music (1883-1887)
III. Recognition 1881-19016: Professorship at Cambridge: National and International Recognition (1888-92)
7: Removal from Cambridge: The Focus of London (1892-5)
8: Shamus O'Brien, the Requiem, and the Leeds Philharmonic Society (1896-1900)
IV. The New Generation 1901-19149: The Leeds Festival, Knightgood, and the New Generation (1901-9)
10: Resignation from Leeds, Patriotism, and Political Isolation (1910-14)
V. War and Decline 1914-192411: The War (1914-1918)
12: The Last Years (1918-1924)
Appendix: List of Works
Bibliography
Index of Works
Index

About the Author

Professor Jeremy Dibble has been Lecturer in Music at both University College, Cork, Ireland and University of Durham as well as Head of Music Department, University of Durham. He is presently Reader of Music, University of Durham. Professor Dibble has written widely on British music of the Victorian, Edwardian, and Georgian eras, has written articles for numerous periodicals, journals, and dictionaries, and has acted as editorial consultant on the music of Parry
and Stanford for various recording companies, including Hyperion, Conifer, Priory, and Nimbus, as well as the BBC.

Reviews

Dibble's writing has genteel passion, and a craftmanship apt for a subject who placed such value on traditional compositional craft. Music & Letters ... does Stanford proud. Times Literary Supplement Stanford emerges triumphant from this massively detailed and gracefully written biography ... Jeremy Dibble has written a book which adds substantially to Stanford's reputation and which greatly enriches both British and Irish musical scholarship. It is brilliantly done. Irish Times Dibble's unnerving and brilliant biography. Irish Times ... excellent ... enthusiastically researched, carefully weighed. Church Times Dibble has cleverly inserted very adequate descriptions of the music into his biographical narrative. Times Higher Education Supplement