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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
The King of Hearts. Illustration by W. W. Denslow. There has been speculation about a model for the Queen of Hearts. In The Real Personage of Mother Goose, Katherine Elwes Thomas claims the King and Queen of Hearts are based on Elizabeth of Bohemia and the events that resulted in the outbreak of the Thirty Years War.
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.
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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 first performance in London on 6 April 1854. He edited the first English edition of Bach's Six Motets (BWV 225–230).
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His libretti included The Amber Witch for composer William Vincent Wallace, The May Queen – A Pastoral (1858) for William Sterndale Bennett, and two for his friend Arthur Sullivan: The Sapphire Necklace and The Masque at Kenilworth. [5]