 Sir Charles Villiers Stanford ( 30 September 1852 – 29 March 1924 ) was an Irish composer , music teacher , and conductor . 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 (CUMS) , and became a professor of music at Cambridge in 1882 . He is best known for his large-scale choral works and his oratorios .
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