Portrait photo by Maull and Polyblank. Matted.
London: 1856. Bennett, William Sterndale (1816-75). Composer, conductor, pianist and music educator, called “the most distinguished composer of the early Victorian era” (Temperley, Lectures on Musical Life—William Sterndale Bennett [2006], p. 3); professor of music at the University of Cambridge; friend of Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann; founding president of..... More