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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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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.
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 ]
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.