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
genres; however, he is perhaps best remembered for his Anglican choral
works for church performance. This volume contains the complete sheet
music for Charles V. Stanford's "Mass Via Victrix, Op. 173", a musical
composition for solo voice, chorus, orchestra and organ in F minor. This
beautiful piece will appeal to fans of classical music, and it is not to
be missed by collectors of Stanford's seminal work. Many vintage books
such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are
republishing this volume now in a modern, high-quality edition complete
with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of musical
notation.