Klarinet Archive - Posting 000359.txt from 1996/08

From: Ward Cheney <cheney@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: the Irish Brahms
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:02:58 -0400

Fogle, Bill has written as follows:
>
> In a music store Saturday, a man leafing through the clarinet
> solo drawer started telling me about a composer who has been
> called the "Irish Brahms" (this is not a joke). I lost the name.
> Is anyone familiar with an Irish composer of (among other
> things????) clarinet music who might fit that
> description? ----Bill Fogle
>
Yep, ol' Charlie Stanford WAS Irish. Born in Dublin, 1852.
Brahms and Stanford became friends when Stanford was given leave
to travel in Germany. He was knighted in 1901.

His Clarinet Concerto is op 80., published by J.B.Cramer, London
1977.

His Sonata for Clarinet and Piano is op. 129, published by Stainer
and Bell, 1918.

The name Hurlstone came up in this thread. He wrote "Four Characteristic
Pieces for Clarinet and Piano". Published by Emerson, (in Ampleforth,
Yorkshire, 1978).