John Stainer - A Life in Music

This comprehensive re-evaluation of John Stainer's life and work demonstrates that there was a great deal more to admire beyond The Crucifixion.

List of contents

A Musical Youth: St Paul's Cathedral (1) 1840-1857
`I saw the Lord': Ouseley and Tenbury 1857-1859
`Drop down, ye heavens, from above': Oxford (1) 1860-1872
Reform and National Renown: St Paul's Cathedral (2) 1860-1872
H.M. Inspector of Schools and The Crucifixion 1882-1888
`Love Divine, all loves excelling': Oxford (2) 1889-1901
List of Works
Bibliography

About the author

JEREMY DIBBLE is an Emeritus Professor of Music at Durham University where he taught for 30 years. He is the author of C. Hubert H. Parry: His Life and Music (1998), Charles Villers Stanford: Man and Musician (original edition, 2002), Michele Esposito (2010). With the Boydell Press, Dibble has published John Stainer: A Life in Music (2007), Hamilton Harty: Musical Polymath (2013), British Musical Criticism and Intellectual Thought, 1850-1950 (2018) (with Julian Horton) and The Music of Frederick Delius (2021).

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Dibble
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.05.2007
• EAN: 9781843832973
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-297-3
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 948 g
• Series: Music in Britain, 1600-1900; British Music 1600-1900
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; MUSIC / History & Criticism, Music / Songbooks