Charles Wood (composer)
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Charles Wood was an Irish composer and teacher; his students included Ralph Vaughan Williams at Cambridge and Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music. He is primarily remembered and performed as
Charles Wood
William Denis Browne
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William Charles Denis Browne, primarily known as Billy to family and as Denis to his friends, was a British composer, pianist, organist and music critic of the early 20th century. He and his close fri
Charles Wood (composer)
…counterpoint and fugue he was unequalled". His pupils at Cambridge included Ralph Vaughan Williams, Nicholas Gatty, Arthur Bliss, Cecil Armstrong Gibbs and W Denis Browne. Dent says that, because Stanford did not reside in Cambridge, Wood took on the real burden of teaching for many years before his own election as…
Portrait photograph of William Denis Browne
The Grantully Castle (pictured c.1887) which transported Browne and Brooke to Gallipoli; Brooke died in transit
Grave of Rupert Brooke on Skyros Island, Greece
Browne is commemorated on the CWGC Helles Memorial in Turkey