Symphony in F Minor - The Irish - For Full Orchestra - Op.28 - Paperbackby Charles Villiers Stanford (Author) Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 1924) was an Irish composer, conductor, and teacher of music. He was educated at the University of Cambridge and continued his studies in Berlin and Leipzig. He was a very influential composer, responsible for making Cambridge University Musical Society an internationally acclaimed organisation. Stanford was also a profuse composer, producing a large corpus of work in many