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Sir William Sterndale Bennett (13 April 1816 – 1 February 1875) was an English composer, pianist, conductor and music educator. ... The May Queen, Op. 39, ...
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
In 1851 he became assistant professor at the RAM, and later full professor. In 1867 he succeeded Sterndale Bennett as conductor of the Philharmonic Society and remained in this post until 1883. [1] He was appointed Master of the Queen's Musick by Queen Victoria in 1870, succeeding George Frederick Anderson, who had retired.
William Sterndale Bennett composed music for the opening ceremony. [2] The opening took place on 1 May 1862. Queen Victoria, still in mourning for her consort Prince Albert, did not attend; instead her cousin the Duke of Cambridge presided from a throne sited beneath the western dome.
As its first Hon Secretary, he played an important role under William Sterndale Bennett to form the Bach Society, forerunner to the Bach Choir in London. [4] He taught organ studies to Helen Johnston (a student at Queen's College, London ) whom Sterndale Bennett had chosen to translate the St Matthew Passion from German into English for the ...
Reeves, Clara Novello, Mme Sainton-Dolby and Weiss gave the premiere of William Sterndale Bennett's cantata The May Queen at the founding of the Leeds Festival, in 1858. In January 1861 he sang the Messiah at St Paul's Cathedral , the first oratorio to be heard there, with Reeves, Helen Lemmens-Sherrington and Mrs Lockey.
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Matthay was born in Clapham, Surrey, in 1858 to parents who had come from northern Germany and eventually became naturalised British subjects. [1] He entered London's Royal Academy of Music in 1871 and eight months later he received the first scholarship given to honour the knighthood of its principal, Sir William Sterndale Bennett. [2]