Bennett, William Sterndale

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Basic data

  1. April 13, 1816 in Sheffield
  2. February 1, 1875 in London
  3. Pianist, Dirigent, Komponist
  4. Wandsworth, London, Cambridge

Iconography

William Sterndale Bennett – engraving after a portrait by John Everett Millais, 1873 (Source: Wikimedia)
Sheffield Parish Church in 1819 (Source: Wikimedia)
Bennett in the uniform of a student of the Royal Academy of Music, by James Warren Childe, c. 1832 (Source: Wikimedia)
Felix Mendelssohn (detail) by James Warren Childe, 1839 (Source: Wikimedia)
Robert Schumann, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber, in 1839 (Source: Wikimedia)
Mary Anne Wood, whom Bennett married in 1844 (Source: Wikimedia)
Bennett aged about 35 (Source: Wikimedia)
Bennett circa 1860 (Source: Wikimedia)
Michael Costa – photograph c. 1855 (Source: Wikimedia)
John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland, by Julia Goodman, c. 1855 (Royal Academy of Music) (Source: Wikimedia)
Bennett in the 1860s (Source: Wikimedia)
Extract from manuscript of overture to The May Queen, 1858 (Source: Wikimedia)
Memorial in Sheffield Cathedral (until 1914 Sheffield Parish Church). It quotes the opening bars of "God is a Spirit". (Source: Wikimedia)

Biographical information from the WeGA

  • Sohn des Organisten Robert Bennett; wuchs nach dem Tod des Vaters bei den Großeltern in Cambridge auf
  • musikalische Ausbildung u. a. ab 1826 an der Royal Academy of Music
  • ab 1833 Organist in Wandsworth
  • zwischen 1836 und 1842 mehrere Deutschlandaufenthalte; Kontakt zu Mendelssohn und Schumann
  • gründete 1849 die Bach Society in London
  • ab 1855 Professor für Musik in Cambridge, ab 1856 leitender Dirigent der Philharmonic Society in London
  • ab 1866 Direktor der Royal Academy of Music

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