Clara Schumann
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Clara Josephine Schumann was a German virtuoso pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course o
Portrait by Franz Hanfstaengl, 1857
Clara Wieck, from an 1835 lithograph
1839 lithograph
Schönefeld church, where the Schumanns married on 12 September 1840
William Sterndale Bennett
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Sir William Sterndale Bennett was an English composer, pianist, conductor and music educator. At the age of ten Bennett was admitted to the London Royal Academy of Music, where he remained for ten yea
William Sterndale Bennett – engraving after a portrait by John Everett Millais, 1873
Sheffield Parish Church in 1819
Bennett in the uniform of a student of the Royal Academy of Music, by James Warren Childe, c. 1832
Felix Mendelssohn (detail) by James Warren Childe, 1839