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Sir William Sterndale Bennett (13 April 1816 – 1 February 1875) was an English composer, pianist, conductor and music educator. At the age of ten Bennett was admitted to the London Royal Academy of Music (RAM), where he remained for ten years.
Pastoral: The May Queen, Op 39; Sacred Cantata: The Woman of Samaria, Op 44 (Birmingham Festival, 1867) Duet: Remember Now Thy Creator; Exhibition Ode (1862), Op 40; Cambridge Installation Ode, Op 41; Now, my God, Let, I beseech Thee; God is a Spirit; Several other anthems, Hymn and Psalm tunes
Rockstro was born William Smyth Rackstraw in North Cheam, Surrey. (He adopted an older form of his family name from 1846). [ 1 ] He studied composition and piano with William Sterndale Bennett , organ with John Purkis , and from 1845 to 1846 he studied at the Leipzig Conservatory under Felix Mendelssohn (composition and piano).
He succeeded Sir William Sterndale Bennett as principal of the academy in 1876. [18] He was also appointed professor of music at Cambridge University in 1875, [20] again succeeding Bennett. [18] Macfarren founded the Handel Society, [3] which attempted to produce a collected edition of the works of George Frideric Handel (between 1843 and 1858).
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The Chorale Book for England: A Complete Hymn-book for Public and Private Worship, Catherine Winkworth, William Sterndale Bennett and Otto Goldschmidt (1863) Lyra Germanica: the Christian life, Catherine Winkworth (1868) Christian Singers of Germany, Catherine Winkworth (1869) Songs for the household: Sacred poetry, Catherine Winkworth (1882)
She was born in Hackney, London; [1] her German-born grandparents moved to the United Kingdom, where her grandfather Philip Seyler was a merchant in London. Athene Seyler was educated at Coombe Hill School in Surrey, a progressive co-educational school which disliked petitionary prayer and whose advanced biology classes studied Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
Macfarren was born in London in 1826, youngest son of the dramatist George Macfarren, and brother of the musician Sir George Alexander Macfarren.In his fourth year he showed gifts for music; he was a choir-boy at Westminster Abbey under James Turle (1836–41), and sang at the coronation of Queen Victoria.