Lectures on Musical Life: William Sterndale Bennett

Bys: Bennett, William Sterndale and Nicholas Temperley, Nicholas

Lectures by leading Victorian conductor and composer reveal much about musical life at the time.

An annotated critical edition of twelve lectures by William Sterndale Bennett [1816-75], the foremost English musician of the mid-Victorian period, principal of the Royal Academy, and conductor of the Philharmonic Society. Delivered at the London Institution and Cambridge University between 1858 and 1871, they are valuable both as representative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843832720
• ISBN13: 9781843832720
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.1" x 6.3"