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William Sterndale Bennett
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English composer who wrote most of his works while he was studying in Leipzig where he became a close friend of Robert Schumann and Mendelssohn. Bennett’s popularity as a composer was short-lived as he later devoted himself to his work as a professor of music at the University of Cambridge and then as the Principal of the Royal Academy of Music. 
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| Although Bennett’s works have been largely forgotten, there is now some renewed interest in his piano music. Out of his five piano concertos the third and fourth are a good introduction to his music. The former has a romantic slow movement and the latter a Barcarole (Gondolier's Song) slow movement, inserted at the suggestion of Mendelssohn. Bennett’s songs remain an important example of the genre in mid-19th century England
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