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Charles Villiers Stanford

1852 - 1924

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Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (30 September 1852 – 29 March 1924) was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic era. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was educated at the University of Cambridge before studying music in Leipzig and Berlin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Villiers Stanford has received more than 388,331 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Charles Villiers Stanford is the 844th most popular composer (down from 814th in 2019), the 122nd most popular biography from Ireland (up from 126th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Irish Composer.

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

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Over the past year Charles Villiers Stanford has had the most page views in the with 50,411 views, followed by German (5,653), and Japanese (5,253). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (133.33%), Latin (83.60%), and Danish (73.36%)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Charles Villiers Stanford ranks 844 out of 1,451Before him are Simon Sechter, André Caplet, André Cardinal Destouches, Edward MacDowell, Franz Anton Hoffmeister, and Stanley Myers. After him are Louis Niedermeyer, Heinrich Bach, Bohuslav Matěj Černohorský, Henri-Montan Berton, Meredith Monk, and Marco da Gagliano.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1852, Charles Villiers Stanford ranks 68Before him are Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, Robert Hausmann, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, William Stewart Halsted, Tadeusz Ajdukiewicz, and Moritz von Auffenberg. After him are Princess Marie of Battenberg, Émile Fayolle, Mikoláš Aleš, Meijer de Haan, Prince Arnulf of Bavaria, and Gertrude Käsebier. Among people deceased in 1924, Charles Villiers Stanford ranks 73Before him are Florence Harding, Cipriano Castro, Emma Eckstein, Jacob Israël de Haan, Pavel Urysohn, and Xaver Scharwenka. After him are Klara Zamenhof, Wilhelm Roux, Curt von Bardeleben, Kuroda Seiki, E. D. Morel, and Jacques Loeb.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Charles Villiers Stanford ranks 122 out of 549Before him are Grace O'Malley (1530), George Abraham Grierson (1851), Daniel O'Connell (1775), William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne (1737), Jim Sheridan (1949), and Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946). After him are Coloman of Stockerau (1000), Kevin of Glendalough (498), Dan O'Herlihy (1919), Turlough O'Carolan (1670), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751), and William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker (1620).

Among COMPOSERS In Ireland

Among composers born in Ireland, Charles Villiers Stanford ranks 2Before him are John Field (1782). After him are Turlough O'Carolan (1670), Michael William Balfe (1808), and Victor Herbert (1859).