Editing Royal College of Music (section)

===Early years===
Grove, a close friend of Sullivan, loyally maintained that the new college was a natural evolution from the NTSM.<ref name=wright/> In reality, his aims were radically different from Sullivan's. In his determination that the new institution should succeed as a training ground for orchestral players, Grove had two principal allies: the violinist [[Henry Holmes (composer)|Henry Holmes]] and the composer and conductor [[Charles Villiers Stanford]].<ref name=wright/> They believed that a capable college orchestra would not only benefit instrumental students, but would give students of composition the essential chance to experience the sound of their music.<ref name=wright/> The college's first intake of scholarship students included 28 who studied an orchestral instrument. The potential strength of the college orchestra, including fee-paying instrumental students, was 33 violins, five [[viola]]s, six [[Cello|cellos]], one [[double bass]], one [[flute]], one [[oboe]] and two [[Horn (instrument)|horns]].<ref name=wright/> Grove appointed 12 professors of orchestral instruments, in addition to distinguished teachers in other musical disciplines including [[Jenny Lind]] (singing), [[Hubert Parry]] (composition), [[Ernst Pauer]] (piano), [[Arabella Goddard]] (piano) and [[Walter Parratt]] (organ).<ref name=mt83/>

The old premises proved restrictive and a new building was commissioned in the early 1890s on a new site in [[Prince Consort Road]], [[South Kensington]]. The building was designed by [[Arthur Blomfield|Sir Arthur Blomfield]] in [[Antwerp Mannerism|Flemish Mannerist]] style in red brick dressed with buff-coloured Welden stone.<ref>"State opening of the Royal College of Music", ''Musical Times'', '''35''' (1 June 1894:390); the style was reported as "Renaissance, freely treated"</ref> Construction began in 1892 and the building opened in May 1894.<ref>The date 1892 on a tablet in the peak of the central pavilion. The formal opening was in May 1894.</ref> The building was largely paid for by two large donations from [[Samson Fox]], a Yorkshire industrialist, whose statue, along with that of the Prince of Wales, stands in the entrance hall.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=47530 |title=Royal College of Music &#124; British History Online |publisher=British-history.ac.uk |date=2003-06-22 |access-date=2010-05-02}}</ref>

Grove retired at the end of 1894 and was succeeded as director by Hubert Parry.<ref name=dnb>Young, Percy M. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11680 "Grove, Sir George (1820–1900)"], ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition, May 2006 accessed 2 November 2010 {{subscription required}}</ref>