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==Life== | ==Life== | ||
'''Born:''' 13 April 1816 | '''Born:''' 13 April 1816 | ||
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'''Died:''' 01 February 1875 | '''Died:''' 01 February 1875 | ||
'''Biography''' | |||
William Sterndale Bennett was born 13th April 1816 in Sheffield and died 1st February 1875 in London. | |||
He came from a musical family, his father was the organist of Sheffield Parish Church. He became a chorister at King's College, Cambridge aged 8 years and at 10 passed to The Royal Academy of Music where, at 17, Mendelssohn found him and impressed by his power, invited him to Leipzig in Germany. Here Schumann wrote enthusiastically about him and dedicated his Etudes Symphoniques for piano to him. | |||
Unfortunately, later life did not fulfil earlier promise due, no doubt, to the pressure of teaching pianoforte, the Principalship of The Royal Academy, the Professorship of Music at Cambridge (1856 - 75) and a heavy commitment to conducting, to all of which he gave himself tirelessly. He was knighted in 1871. He is buried in Westminster Abbey. | |||
Works include: 'The Woman of Samaria', the incidental music to Sophocles' Ajax, odes for International Exhibition (Tennyson), Cambridge Installation of the Chancellor (Kingsley), anthems, Symphony in G Minor, Fantasy Overture on Moore's Paradice and the Peri, four piano concerti, pieces and songs, but the earlier works some 30 years before are the best he composed. They include the delicate overtures 'The Naiads' (1836) and 'The Wood-Nymphs' (1837) and Cantata 'May Queen' composed for the opening of Leeds Town Hall in 1858 which remained popular for many years. | |||
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Latest revision as of 01:00, 22 September 2023
Life
Born: 13 April 1816
Died: 01 February 1875
Biography
William Sterndale Bennett was born 13th April 1816 in Sheffield and died 1st February 1875 in London.
He came from a musical family, his father was the organist of Sheffield Parish Church. He became a chorister at King's College, Cambridge aged 8 years and at 10 passed to The Royal Academy of Music where, at 17, Mendelssohn found him and impressed by his power, invited him to Leipzig in Germany. Here Schumann wrote enthusiastically about him and dedicated his Etudes Symphoniques for piano to him.
Unfortunately, later life did not fulfil earlier promise due, no doubt, to the pressure of teaching pianoforte, the Principalship of The Royal Academy, the Professorship of Music at Cambridge (1856 - 75) and a heavy commitment to conducting, to all of which he gave himself tirelessly. He was knighted in 1871. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
Works include: 'The Woman of Samaria', the incidental music to Sophocles' Ajax, odes for International Exhibition (Tennyson), Cambridge Installation of the Chancellor (Kingsley), anthems, Symphony in G Minor, Fantasy Overture on Moore's Paradice and the Peri, four piano concerti, pieces and songs, but the earlier works some 30 years before are the best he composed. They include the delicate overtures 'The Naiads' (1836) and 'The Wood-Nymphs' (1837) and Cantata 'May Queen' composed for the opening of Leeds Town Hall in 1858 which remained popular for many years.
View the Wikipedia article on William Sterndale Bennett.
List of choral works
Sacred works
Secular works
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Publications
External links
- Works by William Sterndale Bennett in the Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)