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
Charles Villiers Stanford
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Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic era. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was educated at the U
Stanford in 1921
Stanford aged 12
The Leipzig conservatory
Stanford as a young man