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Ireland was born in Bowdon, near Altrincham, Manchester, into a family of Scottish descent and some cultural distinction. His parents died soon after he had entered the Royal College of Music at the age of 14. He studied piano and organ there, and later composition under Charles Villiers Stanford. He subsequently became a teacher at the College himself, his pupils including Ernest John Moeran (who admired him) and Benjamin Britten (who found Ireland’s teaching of less interest). He was sub organist at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, London SW1, and later became organist and choirmaster at St. Luke’s Church, Chelsea, London. Ireland frequently visited the Channel Islands and was inspired by their landscape; he was evacuated from them just before the German invasion during World War II. Ireland retired in 1953, settling at Sussex for the rest of his life. Bowdon is an area in south-west Greater Manchester in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, United Kingdom. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Manchester is a major city in North West England, historically notable for being the worlds first industrialised city, and its subsequent central role in the Industrial Revolution. ... Motto: (Eng: No one provokes me with impunity)1 Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official language(s) English, Gaelic, Scots 2 Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen of the UK Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Jack McConnell MSP Unification    - by... // The Royal College of Music from Prince Consort Road, London The Royal College of Music is a prestigious music school located in Kensington, London. ... Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (September 30, 1852 – 29 March 1924) was an Irish composer. ... Ernest John Moeran (December 31, 1894 - December 1, 1950) was an English composer. ... Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH (November 22, 1913 – December 4, 1976) was a British composer, conductor, and pianist. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... The Channel Islands are a group of islands off the coast of Normandy, France, in the English Channel. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... Sussex is a traditional county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. ...

From Stanford, Ireland inherited a thorough knowledge of the music of Beethoven, Brahms and other German classics, but as a young man he was also strongly influenced by Debussy and Ravel as well as the earlier works by Stravinsky and Bartók. From these influences, he developed his own brand of "English Impressionism", related closer to French and Russian models than to the folk-song style then prevailing in English music. 1820 portrait by Karl Stieler Ludwig van Beethoven (pronounced ) (baptized December 17, 1770[1] – March 26, 1827) was a German composer and pianist. ... Johannes Brahms. ... Claude Debussy, ca. ... Joseph-Maurice Ravel (March 7, 1875 – December 28, 1937) was a French composer and pianist, known especially for the subtlety, richness, and poignancy of his music and generally considered to be one of the major composers of the 20th century. ... Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russian: ́Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, Igor Fëdorovič Stravinskij) (born June 17, 1882, Lomonosov, Russia; died April 6, 1971, New York City) was a Russian-born composer. ... Béla Bartók in 1927 Bartok redirects here. ... The Impressionist movement in music is a movement in music loosely set between the late nineteenth century, up to the middle of the twentieth century. ...

Like most other Impressionist composers, Ireland favoured small forms and wrote neither symphonies nor operas, although his Piano Concerto is among his best works. His output includes some chamber music and a substantial body of piano works, including his best-known piece The Holy Boy, known in numerous arrangements. His songs to poems by A. E. Housman, Thomas Hardy, Christina Rossetti, John Masefield and Rupert Brooke are a valuable addition to English vocal repertoire. Due to his job at St. Luke’s Church, he also wrote hymns, carols and other sacred choral music; among choirs he is probably best known for the anthem Greater Love, often sung in services that commemorate the victims of war. Some of his pieces, such as the popular A Downland Suite, were completed or re-transcribed after his death by his student Geoffrey Bush. Alfred Edward Housman (March 26, 1859 – April 30, 1936), usually known as A.E. Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. ... Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist, short story writer, and poet of the naturalist movement, who delineated characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. ... Christina Rossetti Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was an English poet and the sister of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti as well as William Michael Rossetti and Maria Francesca Rossetti. ... John Edward Masefield, OM, (1 June 1878 – 12 May 1967), was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until his death in 1967. ... A statue of Rupert Brooke in Rugby Rupert Chawner Brooke (August 3, 1887 – April 23, 1915) was a British poet best known for his idealistic War Sonnets written during the First World War. ... Geoffrey Bush (March 23, 1920- February 24, 1998) was a British composer, organist and scholar of 19th century English music. ...

Works

• Alla marcia (organ)
• Almond Tree (piano)
• Aubade (piano)
• April (piano)
• Bagatelle
• Ballad of London Nights (piano)
• Ballade (piano)
• Bed in Summer
• Bells of San Marie
• Benedictus in F
• Berceuse
• Boy Bishop, The (piano)
• Brooks Equinox
• Capriccio (organ)
• Cavatina
• Columbine (piano)
• Comedy Overture
• Communion service in C
• Concertino pastorale
• Concerto for Piano
• Darkened Valley (piano)
• Decorations (piano)
• Downland Suite
• During Music (song)
• Elegiac Meditation
• Elegiac Romance (organ)
• Epic March
• Equinox (piano)
• Fantasy Sonata (clarinet & piano)
• February's Child (piano)
• Forgotten Rite
• Grecian Lad (piano)
• Greater love hath no man (motet)
• Greenways (piano)
• Hawthorn Time (song)
• Heart's Desire, The (song)
• Hills, The (chorus a capella)
• Holy Boy (cello & piano)
• Holy Boy (organ)
• Holy Boy (song)
• Holy Boy (string orch)
• Horn the Hornblower (song)
• I have twelve oxen (song)
• If there were dreams to sell (song)
• If we must part (song)
• In Those Days (piano)
• Island Spell (piano)
• Land of Lost Content (song cycle)
• Leaves from a child's sketchbook (piano)
• Legend (piano & orchestra)
• London Overture
• London Pieces (piano)
• Love and Friendship (song)
• Mai-Dun
• Meditation on John Keble's Rogation Hymn (orchestra)
• Meditation on John Keble's Rogation Hymn (organ)
• Merry Andrew (piano)
• Miniature Suite (organ)
• Month's Mind (piano)
• Mother & Child (song cycle)
• My song is love unknown (hymn)
• My true love hath my heart (song)
• On a Birthday Morning (piano)
• Orchestral Poem
• Overlanders (film score)
• Phantasie Trio
• Poem (orchestral)
• Prelude in E flat (piano)
• Preludes (1913-5) (piano)
• Puck's Birthday (piano)
• Rhapsody (piano)
• Salley Gardens (song)
• Santa Chiara (song)
• Sarnia (piano)
• Satyricon - Overture
• Scherzo & Cortege
• Sea Fever (song)
• Sea Idyll (piano)
• Sextet
• Solioquy (piano)
• Sonata for cello & piano
• Sonata for violin & piano No 1
• Sonata for violin & piano No 2
• Sonata in E (piano)
• Sonatina (piano)
• Songs (boxed set)
• Song from o'er the hill
• Songs of the Wayfarer (song cycle)
• Songs Sacred and Profane (song cycle)
• Spring sorrow (song)
• Spring will not wait (piano)
• Summer Evening (piano)
• Sursum corda (organ)
• Symphonic Rhapsody
• Symphonic Studies
• Te Deum in F
• These things shall be
• Thomas Hardy Songs
• Three Pastels (piano)
• Three Ravens (song)
• Towing Path, The (piano)
• Trellis, The (song)
• Trio No 2 (violin, cello & piano)
• Trio No 3 (violin, cello & piano)
• Tritons
• Tryst (in Fountain Court) (song)
• Two pieces (1921) (piano)
• Two Pieces (1924) (piano)
• Two Symphonic Studies
• Vagabond, The (song)
• Vexilla Regis (hymn)
• What art thou thinking of? (song)
• When I am dead, my dearest (song)

Greenways is a set of three short atmospheric piano works composed by John Ireland in 1937; entitled The Cherry Tree, Cypress and The Palm and May. ...

External link

• The John Ireland Trust