Tag: Ivor Gurney

  • String quartets, poetry, and cups of tea: Frank Bridge and Ivor Gurney

    String quartets, poetry, and cups of tea: Frank Bridge and Ivor Gurney

    British classical music in the early twentieth century was dominated by the teaching of an Irishman: Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 – 1924), Professor of Composition at the Royal College of Music since its founding in 1883, and Professor of Music at Cambridge University since 1887, where he established Music as an academic subject requiring a…