John Ireland served as organist and choirmaster at St Luke's Church, Chelsea, from 1904, establishing Chelsea as his lifelong base.
Composer Biography
John Ireland's Violin Sonata No. 2, performed in 1917, brought him sudden fame, with a publisher seeking him out the morning after its performance.
Composer's Artistic Vision
John Ireland's former chorister, Charles Markes, believed that for Ireland, love and friendship were synonymous, with friendship being the preferred choice.
Composer Biography
It is generally thought that John Ireland was gay, though there is no evidence of him having had a sexual relationship with a man, which is consistent with the laws and his church position at the time.
Composer Biography
John Ireland's marriage in 1926 to Dorothy Philips, a seventeen-year-old pianist, was brief and ended in divorce in 1928.
Composer Biography
John Ireland moved to London at age fourteen to study at the Royal College of Music, but his early years there were marked by the deaths of both his mother and father.
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