Sir William Sterndale Bennett
Posts in The Copybook credited to ‘Sir William Sterndale Bennett’
In The Copybook
Posts in The Copybook credited to ‘Sir William Sterndale Bennett’
In The Copybook
In 1837 William Sterndale Bennett, then regarded as England’s most exciting young composer, made history in quite another... field.
German club cricket began in 1858, courtesy of British and American expatriates living in Berlin. But there is a much earlier game on record, played in Leipzig on June 10th, 1837. One of the participants was William Sterndale Bennett, a young and promising composer, and inevitably perhaps, a Yorkshireman.