‘My English Joy’

Young composer William Sterndale Bennet left Leipzig in 1837 with a mixture of regret for the friends he must part from, especially Robert Schumann, and happy anticipation at returning home to England. A game of cricket had helped to remind him, somewhat to his own surprise, just how much he missed his native heath.

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