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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
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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).
A May Queen of New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada circa 1877. In the British Isles and parts of the Commonwealth, the May Queen or Queen of May is a personification of the May Day holiday of 1 May, and of springtime and the coming growing season. The May Queen is a girl who rides or walks at the front of a parade for May Day celebrations.
He obtained a Queen's Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, London, in 1849 studying under William Sterndale Bennett and developing into an accomplished pianist. In 1857 he travelled to Leipzig to study composition and piano, playing Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor at a Gewandhaus concert on 22 March 1860. [1]
Joan Sterndale-Bennett (1914–1996), British stage and film actress; Sir William Sterndale Bennett (1816–1875), English composer; William Pickford, 1st Baron Sterndale (1848–1923), British lawyer and judge; Dr Leon Sterndale, a fictional character in The Adventure of the Devil's Foot, a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In about 1846 the composer William Sterndale Bennett set the words as a four-part madrigal. [ 10 ] In the 1939 film The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex , both poems are sung as a duet by Mistress Margaret Radcliffe ( Nanette Fabray ), singing Marlowe's original words, and Lady Penelope Gray ( Olivia de Havilland ) taking Raleigh's rebuttal.