Charles Wood (composer)

Charles Wood ( born June 15, 1866 in Armagh, † July 12, 1926 in Cambridge ) was an Irish composer.

Wood studied at the Royal College of Music under Charles Villiers Stanford and the University of Cambridge, where he obtained his doctorate in 1894. He then became assistant to Stanford at the Royal College of Music, whom he succeeded after his death in 1924 as professor of harmony and counterpoint. In addition, he looked like his brother William Wood (1859-1895) as an organist.

In 1904, Wood was one of the founders of the Irish Folk Song Society in London. Many of his songs were based on Irish Volksmusikgut. He also wrote chamber music and is best known for his sacred music such as the Sixteen Preludes for Organ from 1912 or the St. Mark Passion of 1920. Among his students there are well-known musicians such as Herbert Howells, Sir Arthur Bliss, Sir Thomas Beecham and Ralph Vaughan Williams and the musicologist Edward Dent.

• Composer ( romance )
• Irish composer
• Born in 1866
• Died in 1926
• Man