Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- I • 1840–1857 A Musical Youth: St Paul's Cathedral (1)
- II • 1857–1859 ‘I saw the Lord’: Ouseley and Tenbury
- III • 1860–1872 ‘Drop down, ye Heavens, from Above’: Oxford (1)
- IV • 1872–1882 Reform and National Renown: St Paul's Cathedral (2)
- V • 1882–1888 H. M. Inspector of Schools and The Crucifixion
- VI • 1889–1901 ‘Love Divine, all loves excelling’: Oxford (2)
- List of Stainer's Works
- Bibliography
- Index
V • 1882–1888 - H. M. Inspector of Schools and The Crucifixion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- I • 1840–1857 A Musical Youth: St Paul's Cathedral (1)
- II • 1857–1859 ‘I saw the Lord’: Ouseley and Tenbury
- III • 1860–1872 ‘Drop down, ye Heavens, from Above’: Oxford (1)
- IV • 1872–1882 Reform and National Renown: St Paul's Cathedral (2)
- V • 1882–1888 H. M. Inspector of Schools and The Crucifixion
- VI • 1889–1901 ‘Love Divine, all loves excelling’: Oxford (2)
- List of Stainer's Works
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Having accepted Mundella's invitation, Stainer and his wife spent July and part of August 1882 in Holland and Belgium, visiting Rotterdam, Antwerp, Amsterdam, The Hague and Brussels. A few weeks after his return he was asked by Grove to join the staff of the RCM, due to open its doors in 1883:
I write to you by the express desire of the Prince of Wales to convey his hope that you will accept the Professorship of the Organ in the Royal College of Music, and thus aid in carrying on the excellent work with which you are so closely identified at the National Training School. The Prince hopes to open the College early in the spring.
His Royal Highness knows what severe calls are made on your time and strength by your engagements at St Paul's and elsewhere; but he feels convinced that you will see the gravity of this fresh attempt to serve the interests of music in England, and will not refuse him the advantage of your well known devotion to the cause which both he and you have so much at heart. There will be plenty of room for your services in other departments also; but I hope you will agree to take the organ as your leading professorship.
I need not add how sincerely delighted I shall be to receive your assent, and thus secure the prospect of having you for a Colleague.
It was a most tempting offer, not least because Stainer had lent his full support to the Prince of Wales's venture. ‘I should only have been too glad to be attached to the staff of the Royal College, as Sir George Grove asked me to be’, he later admitted, ‘if Mr Mundella ⦠had not asked me to work under the educational department.’
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- John StainerA Life in Music, pp. 214 - 248Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2007