William Sterndale Bennett

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Rondo - Allegretto piacevole - Animato 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 1: II. Andante sostenuto 00:00 Tools
Andante grazioso 00:00 Tools
Allegro moderato ma con passione 00:00 Tools
Minuetto caracteristique - Andante grazioso - Minore 00:00 Tools
Piano Sextet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 8: II. Scherzo. Quasi presto 00:00 Tools
Quasi presto 00:00 Tools
Adagio sostenuto - Allegro guisto e legerissimo - Maggiore-Allegro sostenuto 00:00 Tools
Finale: Allegro assai ed energico 00:00 Tools
Andante con moto aus der Sinfonie g-moll 00:00 Tools
No. 4: Piano ed agitato - Moderato 00:00 Tools
Allegro grazioso, Op. 18 00:00 Tools
No. 9: Soave e gentile - Moderato con grazia 00:00 Tools
Rondo piacevole, Op. 25 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 1: I. Allegro con brio 00:00 Tools
Genevieve 00:00 Tools
Capriccio in D minor, Op. 2 00:00 Tools
Scherzo, Op. 27 00:00 Tools
The Millstream 00:00 Tools
No. 1: Agitato in B flat minor 00:00 Tools
No. 5: Pianissimo - Der Schmetterling. Allegro scherzando 00:00 Tools
No. 3: Agitato in G minor 00:00 Tools
No. 20: Allegro deciso - Caprice 00:00 Tools
4 Pieces, Op. 28: I. Introduction 00:00 Tools
The End 00:00 Tools
Lento 00:00 Tools
Pastorale 00:00 Tools
No. 27: Andantino 00:00 Tools
No. 8: Agitato - Moderato con punto 00:00 Tools
Symphony in G Minor, Op. 43: I. Allegro moderato 00:00 Tools
Caprice in E major, Op. 22 00:00 Tools
Presto agitato 00:00 Tools
Serenata: Moderato grazioso 00:00 Tools
Finale: Presto agitato 00:00 Tools
In the Fields 00:00 Tools
No. 1: Andante espressivo in B minor 00:00 Tools
No. 29: Leggierissimo - Scherzetto 00:00 Tools
In the Field 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No.5 in F Minor - I. Allegro moderato [Malcolm Binns, Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Nicholas Braithwaite] 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 1: Allegro Brillante - Moderato Semplice 00:00 Tools
Allegro grazioso Op.18 00:00 Tools
No. 11: Moderato 00:00 Tools
Allegro grazioso op. 18 00:00 Tools
4 Pieces, Op. 28: II. Pastorale 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 9: I. Allegro moderato 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 4: Piano Ed Agitato - Moderato 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 10: Lento E Grave - Lento Sostenuto 00:00 Tools
Piano concerto No. 5 in F minor: I. Allegro moderato 00:00 Tools
No. 23: Andante amabile - Armonioso amabile 00:00 Tools
No. 13: Allegretto amabile 00:00 Tools
Rondino 00:00 Tools
3 Romances, Op. 14: No. 3: Agitato In G Minor 00:00 Tools
3 Impromptus, Op. 12: No. 1: Andante Espressivo In B Minor 00:00 Tools
4 Pieces, Op. 28: III. Rondino 00:00 Tools
4 Pieces, Op. 28: IV. Capriccio 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 5: Pianissimo - Der Schmetterling. Allegro Scherzando 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 3: Legato Espressivo - Molto Tranquillo 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 7: Soave E Gentile - 9/8 00:00 Tools
3 Impromptus, Op. 12: No. 2: Grazioso In E Major 00:00 Tools
The Fountain 00:00 Tools
No. 19: Tempo giusto - Aria. Assai moderato 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 6: Moderato - Minuetto - Quasi Andante 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 8: Agitato - Moderato Con Punto 00:00 Tools
The Prison 00:00 Tools
No. 12: Lento - Allegretto 00:00 Tools
No. 21: Moderato 00:00 Tools
No. 30: 6/8 00:00 Tools
Presto leggiero 00:00 Tools
The Lake 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 15: Riposatamente - Sostenuto Armonioso 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 19: Tempo Giusto - Aria. Assai Moderato 00:00 Tools
Genevieve, Woo 42: Genevieve 00:00 Tools
Piano Sonata No. 2. in A Flat Major, Op. 46, "The Maid Of Orleans": Iv. The End 00:00 Tools
Piano Sonata No. 2. in A Flat Major, Op. 46, "The Maid Of Orleans": Ii. In The Field 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 9: Soave E Gentile - Moderato Con Grazia 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 2: Espressivo - Allegro 00:00 Tools
Capricciosa: Andante - Allegretto leggiero 00:00 Tools
Agitato assai 00:00 Tools
No. 3: Presto in F sharp minor 00:00 Tools
No. 10: Lento e grave - Lento sostenuto 00:00 Tools
No. 18: Agitato 00:00 Tools
No. 2: Grazioso in E major 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 29: Leggierissimo - Scherzetto 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 14: Lento Maestoso - Gemuthsbewegung. Presto Agitato 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 11: Moderato 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 12: Lento - Allegretto 00:00 Tools
Adagio 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 9: III. Allegro agitato 00:00 Tools
No. 28: Cantando - Presto 00:00 Tools
No. 15: Riposatamente - Sostenuto armonioso 00:00 Tools
Capriccio 00:00 Tools
Scherzo: Allegro agitato 00:00 Tools
No. 17: 2/4 (a study in 64th notes) 00:00 Tools
Suite De Pieces, Op. 24: I. Presto Leggiero 00:00 Tools
Suite De Pieces, Op. 24: III. Agitato Assai 00:00 Tools
Piano Sonata No. 1 In F Minor, Op. 13: I. Moderato Espressivo 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 22: Lamentevole 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 20: Allegro Deciso - Caprice 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 16: Adagio Sostenuto - Alla Marcia 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 18: Agitato 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 30: 6/8 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 13: Allegretto Amabile 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 27: Andantino 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 28: Cantando - Presto 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 25: Der Zephyr 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 26: Il Penseroso. Moderato Con Sentimento 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 23: Andante Amabile - Armonioso Amabile 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 24: Plaintivo 00:00 Tools
3 Musical Sketches, Op. 10: No. 2 The Millstream 00:00 Tools
Piano Sonata No. 2. in A Flat Major, Op. 46, "The Maid Of Orleans": I. In The Fields 00:00 Tools
Symphony in G minor, Op.43 - I. Allegro moderato [Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Nicholas Braithwaite] 00:00 Tools
No. 6: Moderato - Minuetto - Quasi andante 00:00 Tools
Symphony in G minor, Op.43 - II. Introduzione al Minuetto. Maestoso [Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Nicholas Braithwaite] 00:00 Tools
No. 2: Moderato grazioso in E flat major 00:00 Tools
Symphony in G minor, Op.43 - IV. Romanza. Larghetto cantabile [Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Nicholas Braithwaite] 00:00 Tools
No. 2: Espressivo - Allegro 00:00 Tools
No. 14: Lento maestoso - Gemuthsbewegung. Presto agitato 00:00 Tools
No. 25: Der Zephyr 00:00 Tools
Suite De Pieces, Op. 24: II. Capricciosa: Andante - Allegretto Leggiero 00:00 Tools
Suite De Pieces, Op. 24: IV. Alla Fantasia: Moderato Quasi Andante 00:00 Tools
Piano Sonata No. 1 In F Minor, Op. 13: IV. Finale: Presto Agitato 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 21: Moderato 00:00 Tools
3 Romances, Op. 14: No. 1: Agitato In B Flat Minor 00:00 Tools
Come live with me 00:00 Tools
Piano Sonata in F Minor, Op. 13: I. Moderato espressivo 00:00 Tools
Symphony in G minor, Op. 43 - I. Allegro moderato [Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Douglas Bostock] 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 1: III. Finale: Presto 00:00 Tools
No. 26: Il penseroso. Moderato con sentimento 00:00 Tools
Symphony in G minor, Op.43 - III. Minuetto. Moderato con grazia [Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Nicholas Braithwaite] 00:00 Tools
Caprice in E, Op. 22: Caprice in E, Op. 22 00:00 Tools
No. 16: Adagio sostenuto - Alla marcia 00:00 Tools
Introduction 00:00 Tools
Moderato espressivo 00:00 Tools
No. 24: Plaintivo 00:00 Tools
"Barcarolle" Andante cantabile aus Klavierkonzert Nr.4 f-moll 00:00 Tools
Suite De Pieces, Op. 24: V. Presto Agitato 00:00 Tools
Suite De Pieces, Op. 24: VI. Lento 00:00 Tools
Piano Sonata No. 1 In F Minor, Op. 13: II. Scherzo: Allegro Agitato 00:00 Tools
Piano Sonata No. 2. in A Flat Major, Op. 46, "The Maid Of Orleans": Iii. The Prison 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No.5 in F Minor - II. Romanza Pastorale [Malcolm Binns, Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Nicholas Braithwaite] 00:00 Tools
"Barcarolle" Andante cantabile aus Klavierkonzert Nr. 4 f-moll 00:00 Tools
Piano Sextet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 8: I. Allegro moderato ma con passione 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 1: III. Finale. Presto - Scherzo 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor, Op.9 - I. Allegro moderato [Malcolm Binns, Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Nicholas Braithwaite] 00:00 Tools
Piano Sonata No. 1 In F Minor, Op. 13: III. Serenata: Moderato Grazioso 00:00 Tools
Capriccio, Op. 2: Capriccio In D Minor, Op. 2 00:00 Tools
3 Musical Sketches, Op. 10: No. 3 The Fountain 00:00 Tools
3 Impromptus, Op. 12: No. 3: Presto in F-Sharp Minor 00:00 Tools
3 Romances, Op. 14: No. 1: Agitato in B-Flat Minor 00:00 Tools
Piano concerto No. 5 in F minor: II. Romanza Pastorale 00:00 Tools
String Quartet in G Major, WoO 17: I. Allegro moderato 00:00 Tools
Andante con moto de la symphonie en sol mineur 00:00 Tools
Symphony in G Minor, Op. 43: III. Romanza 00:00 Tools
No. 7: Soave e gentile - 9/8 00:00 Tools
No. 3: Legato espressivo - Molto tranquillo 00:00 Tools
3 Impromptus, Op. 12: No. 3: Presto In F Sharp Minor 00:00 Tools
3 Musical Sketches, Op. 10: No. 1 The Lake 00:00 Tools
Rondeau à la Polonaise op. 37 - Live 00:00 Tools
3 Romances, Op. 14: No. 2: Moderato Grazioso In E Flat Major 00:00 Tools
Piano Sextet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 8: III. Andante grazioso 00:00 Tools
String Quartet in G Major, WoO 17: III. Menuetto. Allegro 00:00 Tools
String Quartet in G Major, WoO 17: II. Adagio 00:00 Tools
Symphony in G Minor, Op. 43: IV. Intermezzo, Presto 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 4: I. Allegro moderato 00:00 Tools
Symphony in G minor, Op. 43 - II. Introduzione al Minuetto. Maestoso [Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Douglas Bostock] 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 4: II. Adagio espressivo 00:00 Tools
Alla fantasia: Moderato quasi andante 00:00 Tools
Piano Sonata in F Minor, Op. 13: II. Allegro agitato 00:00 Tools
Piano Sonata in F Minor, Op. 13: III. Moderato grazioso 00:00 Tools
3 Romances, Op. 14: No. 2: Moderato grazioso in E-Flat Major 00:00 Tools
No. 22: Lamentevole 00:00 Tools
String Quartet in G Major, WoO 17: IV. Finale. Allegro 00:00 Tools
Piano concerto No. 5 in F minor: III. Presto Agitato 00:00 Tools
Symphony in G Minor, Op. 43: II. Minuetto and Trio 00:00 Tools
The Wood Nymphs, Op. 20: Overture 00:00 Tools
The May Queen, Op. 39: Overture 00:00 Tools
3 Musical Sketches, Op. 10: No. 1. The Lake 00:00 Tools
No. 1: Allegro brillante - Moderato semplice 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes And Lessons, Op. 33: No. 17: 2/4(A Study In 64th Notes) 00:00 Tools
Piano Sextet in F Sharp Minor Op. 8 IV: Finale Allegro assai ed energico 00:00 Tools
Piano Sonata in F Minor, Op. 13: IV. Presto agitato 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No.5 in F Minor - III. Presto Agitato [Malcolm Binns, Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Nicholas Braithwaite] 00:00 Tools
Parisina, Op. 3: Overture 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 9: II. Romanza 00:00 Tools
The Naiades, Op. 15: Overture 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor, Op.9 - II. Romanza. Andante espressivo [Malcolm Binns, Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Nicholas Braithwaite] 00:00 Tools
Symphony in G minor, Op. 43 - III. Minuetto. Moderato con grazia [Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Douglas Bostock] 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat, Op. 4: III. Vivace Giocoso 00:00 Tools
Piano Sextet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 8: IV. Finale: Allegro assai ed energico 00:00 Tools
30 Preludes and Lessons, Op. 33: No. 17: 2/4 (a study in 64th notes) 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, Op. 19: II. Romanza Pastorale 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor, Op.9 - III. Allegro agitato [Malcolm Binns, Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Nicholas Braithwaite] 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, Op.1 - I. Allegro con brio [Malcolm Binns, Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Nicholas Braithwaite] 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, Op. 19: III. Presto Agitato 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 19 00:00 Tools
Piano Sextet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 8: II. Quasi presto 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 9: II. Romanza. Andante espressivo 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No.2 in E-flat major, op.4 - I. Allegro moderato [Malcolm Binns, Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Nicholas Braithwaite] 00:00 Tools
Symphony in G minor, Op. 43 - IV. Romanza. Larghetto cantabile [Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Douglas Bostock] 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 4: I. Allegro moderato 00:00 Tools
Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, Op. 19: I. Allegro moderato 00:00 Tools
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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 be studied in Bennett's Capriccio in D minor. His great success on the continent established his position on his return to England. In 1834 he was elected organist of St Anne's chapel (now church), Wandsworth. In this year he composed his Overture to Parisina, and his Concerto in C minor, modelled on Mozart. An unpublished concerto in F minor, and the overture to the Naiads, impressed the firm of Broadwood and Sons so favourably in 1836 that they offered the composer a year in Leipzig, where the Naiads overture was performed at a Gewandhaus concert on the 13th of February 1837. Bennett visited Leipzig a second time in 1840-1841, when he composed his Caprice in E for pianoforte and orchestra and his overture Die Waldnymphe (The Wood Nymphs). He settled in London, devoting himself chiefly to practical teaching. In 1844 he married Mary Anne, daughter of Captain James Wood, R.N. He was made Professor of Music, Cambridge University in 1856, the year in which he was engaged as permanent conductor of the Philharmonic Society. This latter post he held until 1866, when he became principal of the Royal Academy of Music. Owing to his professional duties, his latter years were not creatively fertile, and what he then wrote was scarcely equal to the productions of his youth. The principal charm of Bennett's compositions (not to mention his absolute mastery of the musical form) consists in the tenderness of their conception, rising occasionally to sweetest lyrical intensity. Except for opera, Bennett tried his hand at almost all the different forms of vocal and instrumental writing. His best works include piano music (his three sketches, The Lake, The Millstream and The Fountain, and his third piano concerto); orchestral music (his Symphony in G minor, and his overture The Naiads); and vocal music (his cantata The May Queen, written for the inaugural Leeds Festival in 1858). For the golden jubilee of the Philharmonic Society he wrote the overture Paradise and the Peri in 1862. He also wrote a sacred cantata, The Woman of Samaria, first performed at the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival in 1867. In 1870 the University of Oxford conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.C.L. A year later he was knighted, and in 1872 he received a public testimonial before a large audience at St James's Hall, London, the money subscribed being devoted to the foundation of a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. Shortly before his death he produced a sonata called The Maid of Orleans, an elaborate piece of programme-music based on Schiller's tragedy. He died at his house in St John's Wood, London. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.