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Robert Bennett

Short Name: Robert Bennett
Full Name: Bennett, Robert, 1787-1819
Birth Year: 1787
Death Year: 1819

Robert Bennett was born at Bakewell, Derbyshire in 1787. His family moved to Cambridge when he was young and he became a chorister at King's College. He took music lessons from Dr. Clarke Whitfield. In 1811 he was appointed organist of the parish church in Sheffield. He was a close friend of William Sterndale, who he named his son after. (See William Sterndale Bennett) Robert Bennett composed several hymn tunes.

Dianne Shapiro, from "Hymn-Tunes and Their Story" by James T. Lightwood (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1905)


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