Bennett

Sir william Stern dale, Mus. Doc., D.C.L.,jwas born in 1816. He was a great English pianist and composer who studied at the Royal Academy, London, for ten years, and finished his musical education at Leipzic. He was elected Profe or of Music at Cambridge in 1856, and in 1868 he became Principal of the Royal Academy of Music. He showed his individuality most in his pianoforte compositions, of which the chiet are four concertos, capriccio with orchestra, two sonatas, and several studies. Since Mendel ohn and Schumann recognized him, he has been for some time the only well-known representative of English music on the continent, until lately.