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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
William Sterndale Bennett – engraving after a portrait by John Everett Millais, 1873
Sheffield Parish Church in 1819
Sheffield Parish Church in 1819
Bennett in the uniform of a student of the Royal Academy of Music, by James Warren Childe, c. 1832
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
Felix Mendelssohn (detail) by James Warren Childe, 1839
James William Davison
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James William Davison was an English journalist, known as the music critic of The Times.
William Sterndale Bennett
…Crotch, and then under Cipriani Potter, who took over as principal in 1832. Among the friends Bennett made at the Academy was the future music critic J. W. Davison. Bennett did not study singing, but when the RAM mounted a student production of The Marriage of Figaro in 1830, Bennett, aged fourteen, was cast in…
J W Davison – Pencil sketch of a daguerreotype, c. 1857
J W Davison – Pencil sketch of a daguerreotype, c. 1857