After the death of Purcell there were no significant English-born composers of international stature until the twentieth century. The most successful of the latenineteenth-century composers was:
a. Charles Villiers Stanford
b. Edward Elgar
c. Arthur Sullivan
d. C. Hubert H. Parry
c
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