Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (30 September 185229 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. He was instrumental in raising the status of the Cambridge University Musical Society, attracting international stars to perform with it. Contents include:- Some notes upon musical education.--English orchestras.--On some conductors and their methods.--Beethoven's ninth (choral) symphony and some common misreadings of its pace.--The composition of music.--A sketch of the symphony.--On some recent tendencies in composition.--Music and the war.--Three centenaries: Jenny Lind, Pauline Viardot-Garcia, George Grove.--Baireuth in 1876.--Upon some amateurs.--William Sterndale Bennett Excellent pages for its age, some edge and board wear.