biography
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Bennett, Sir William Sterndale
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| male
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| lived:
| (1816–75)
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| biography:
| Pianist and composer, born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at the Royal Academy, London, and at Leipzig, became professor of music at Cambridge (1856), and in 1868 was appointed principal of the Royal Academy of Music. His compositions include piano pieces, songs, and the cantatas The May Queen (1858) and The Women of Samaria (1867). |
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