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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
Extract from manuscript of The May Queen, an 1858 pastoral cantata by William Sterndale Bennett Illustration by Louis Agassiz Fuertes on the frontispiece of William Butts Mershon's 1907 book The Passenger Pigeon. Seven featured articles were promoted this week.
These included choral works like William Sterndale Bennett's The May Queen (1858), [30] Ebenezer Prout's Hereward and King Alfred [31] and cantatas like Sullivan and Henry Fothergill Chorley's The Masque at Kenilworth (1864), [32] John Francis Barnett's Ancient Mariner (1867) [33] and Frederic Hymen Cowen's The Rose Maiden (1870) and Harold ...
She was engaged as the soprano soloist for the premiere of the pastorale May Queen by William Sterndale Bennett, a work commissioned for the opening of the Leeds Music Festival in 1858 and conducted by the composer. Probably the finest revelation of her powers was at the Handel Festival there in June 1859. She then determined to retire.
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The New York Times, citing Social Security Administration death records, also reported Calley's death. Calls to numbers listed for Calley's son, William L. Calley III, were not returned. American ...
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.