Despite performing his Caprice in E in London and Leipzig, Bennett never actually wrote down the solo piano part for the piece.
Composer Biography
Bennett founded the Bach Society in 1849 and conducted the English premiere of Bach's St. Matthew Passion in 1854.
Composer Biography
William Sterndale Bennett, the composer, was orphaned at a young age and raised by his grandfather, a lay clerk at Cambridge University.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Robert Schumann, a famous composer and critic, described Bennett as a "simple-minded, inwardly poetic character" and a "genuine, deeply-feeling poet."
Composition History
The first Piano Concerto in D minor was originally planned with four movements, but Bennett was persuaded to omit the finale, resulting in a work that unusually ends with a scherzo.
Composer Biography
Mendelssohn, a renowned composer, invited Bennett to Germany, telling him, "you must come to be my friend" rather than his pupil.
Composer Biography
Bennett became a boarder at the Royal Academy of Music in London at the age of ten.
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