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William Sterndale Bennett
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Sir William Sterndale Bennett (April 13, 1816 - February 1, 1875) was an English musical composer. Bennett was born at Sheffield, the son of Robert Bennett, an organist. Having lost his father at an early age, he was brought up at Cambridge by his grandfather, from whom he received his first musical education. He entered the choir of King's College chapel in 1824. In 1826 he entered the Royal Academy of Music, and remained a pupil of that institution for the next ten years, studying pianoforte under W. H. Holmes and Cipriani Potter, and composition under Charles Lucas and Dr Crotch. It was during this time that he wrote several of his most appreciated works, in which may be traced influences of the contemporary movement of music in Germany, which country he frequently visited during the years 1836-1842. At one of the Rhenish musical festivals in Düsseldorf he made the personal acquaintance of Mendelssohn, and soon afterwards renewed it at Leipzig, where the talented young Englishman was welcomed by the leading musicians of the rising generation. At one of the celebrated Gewandhaus concerts he played his third pianoforte concerto, which was received enthusiastically. A laudatory account of the event was written by Robert Schumann, who pronounced Bennett to be the most musikalisch of all Englishmen, and an angel of a musician (copying Gregory's pun on Angli and Angeli). But it was Mendelssohn's influence that dominated Bennett's mode of utterance. A good example of this may b
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Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 1: II. Andante sostenuto
3872Rondo - Allegretto piacevole - Animato
2843Piano Sextet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 8: II. Scherzo. Quasi presto
1984Andante grazioso
1695Allegro moderato ma con passione
1596Minuetto caracteristique - Andante grazioso - Minore
1397Quasi presto
1218When I Was in Trouble, I Called upon the Lord (Psalm 120)
959Adagio sostenuto - Allegro guisto e legerissimo - Maggiore-Allegro sostenuto
8410Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 1: I. Allegro con brio
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BENNETT: Piano Sextet, Op. 8 / Sonata Duo, Op. 32
BENNETT: Preludes and Lessons, Op. 33 / Capriccio, Op. 2 / Romances / Impromptus
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Bennett: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Bennett: Piano Sextet, Chamber Trio & String Quartet
BENNETT: The Maid of Orleans / 4 Pieces, Op. 48 / Musical Sketches, Op. 10
Bennett: Piano Concertos 1 & 3 and Caprice in E Major
BENNETT: Suite de Pieces, Op. 24 / Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 13
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Bennett: Piano Works
William Sterndale Bennett: The Maid Of Orleans / 4 Pieces, Op. 48 / Musical Sketches, Op. 10
Bennett: Piano Sextet, Op. 8 / Sonata Duo, Op. 32
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Bennett: Overtures & Symphony in G Minor
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Bennett: Piano Concerto No. 2 & 5