The symphonies of Charles Villiers Stanford: constructing a national identity?

Thesis

Writing in 2001, musicologist Axel Klein concluded that Stanford’s reception history has been significantly impacted by the complicated national identities surrounding both the composer and his music. A lifelong devotee of the nineteenth-century Austro-Germanic tradition, Stanford’s status as an Irish-born leading figure of the ‘English’ Musical Renaissance has compromised the place that the composer and his musical output occupy within the history of Western music.

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Authors: White, J; Jonathan Paul White

• Publication date: 2014
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: Irish Identity; Charles Villiers Stanford; Anglo-Irish; Anglo-Irish Music; Symphonic Music; Symphony; Anglo-Irish Identity; Nationalism
• Subjects: 19th Century music; Romanticism (music); 20th Century music