The "Te Deum" is from Morning, Evening and Communion Service in B flat Major first performed in Trinity College Chapel,Cambridge on 25th May 1879. "O for a closer walk with God" is Op 113 No 6.
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) thought to be one
of our great British composers was actually Irish, born in Dublin, although
educated at The University of Cambridge and then studied music in Leipzig and
Berlin.
Whilst an undergraduate, he was appointed organist of
Trinity College, Cambridge and was one of the founding professors of the Royal
College of Music, where he taught composition for the rest of his life. He was also Professor of Music at Cambridge. His pupils included Gustav Holst and Ralph
Vaughan Williams whose fame went on to surpass his own.
He is best remembered for his sacred choral compositions for
church performance in the Anglican tradition. Along with Hubert Parry and
Alexander Mackenzie, he was thought responsible for the renaissance of music in
the British Isles.
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