Bennett was innate at Sheffield, the boy of Robert Bennett, an organist. With misplaced his father at an early age, he was brought higher at Cambridge by his grandfather, from either whom he received his 1st musical education. He entered a choir of Kings College chapel in 1824. Within 1826 he entered the Royal Academy of Music, and remained the pupil of that institution for the next tenner years, researching piano under W. H. Holmes & Cipriani Potter, & composition under Lucas and Dr Crotch. It was around the period of this instance that he wrote many of his virtually all appreciated works, where can be traced influences of the contemporary movement of music in Germany, which country he often visited in a period of the years 1836-1842. At one of the Rhenish musical festivals inside Düsseldorf he made a home acquaintance of Mendelssohn, and shortly later on renewed it at Leipzig, where a gifted immature Englishman was welcomed per leading musicians of the rising generation. At one of the celebrated Gewandhaus concerts he played his third pianoforte concerto, which was received enthusiastically. An enthusiastic account of the event was written by Robert Schumann, who pronounced Bennett to become a virtually all musikalisch of 100% Englishmen, & an angel of the musician (copying Gregory's pun on Angli and Angeli). However it was Mendelssohn's influence that dominated Bennett's mode of vocalization. A good lesson of this can be exposed within Bennett's Capriccio inside 500 small fry. His groovy profits in the continent established his position on his link to to England. Inside 1834 he was elective organist of St Anne's chapel (okay, church), Wandsworth. Therein season he composed his Overture to Parisina, and his Concerto in C tyke, modelled in Mozart. An unpublished concerto within F shaver, & a overture to the Naiads, impressed a business firm of Broadwood therefore favourably within 1836 that they offered a composer a year around Leipzig, where a Naiads overture was performed at the Gewandhaus concert on the 13th of February 1837. Bennett visited Leipzig another period inside 1840-1841, when he composed his Whim within E for forte-piano & orchestra & his overture A Wood Nymphs. He settled around London, devoting himself in the main to practical teaching. Around 1844 he married Mary Anne, daughter of Captain James Wood, R.North. He was manufactured musical prof at Cambridge in 1856, the season where he wwhen engaged as lasting conductor of the Philharmonic Society. This latter post he held until 1866, when he became chief of the Royal Academy of Music. Owing to his agent duties his latter years were non fertile, & what he so wrote was scarcely up to the productions of his youth. A chief charm of Bennett's compositions (does'nt to mention his absolute mastery of the musical form) consists in the tenderness of their conception, rising at times to sweetly lyrical intensity. Except a opera, Bennett tried his h& at almost all the different forms of vocal and implemental writing. When his better works around various branches of art, i personally might mention, for piano solo, & using accompaniment of the orchestra, his tierce sketches, A Flow of any stream, A Millstream & A Fountain, & his Third forte-piano concerto; for the orchestra, his Symphony in G minor, & his overture A Naiads; & for voices, his cantata The May Queen, written for the Leeds Festival in 1858. For a jubilee of the Philharmonic Society he wrote the overture Paradise & a Peri inside 1862. He too wrote the sacred cantata, The Woman of Samaria, number 1 performed at a Birmingham Musical Festival in 1867. Around 1870 the University of Oxford conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.C.L. A year late he was knighted, and within 1872 he received the public testimonial prior to a big audience at St. James Hall, the money subscribed being devoted to the foundation of a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. Shortly prior to his demise he produced the sonata called The Maid of Orleans, an elaborate piece of programme-music based on Schiller's tragedy. He died at his home in St. John's Wood, London.