The British Musical Biography

[E] Stevens, William Seaman, pianist and
composer, born at Westminster in 1778. He-
studied under R. J. S. Stevens, Dr. Cooke,
and T. Smart. Author of "Treatise on Piano-
forte Expression, containing the Principles of
Pine Playing on that Instrument,". .Loudon,
1811. Composer of Lyric recitation of the
garden scene in Romeo and Juliet [1815] ;
Ladies canzonets, 1795. Songs : Mary, or
the beauty of Buttermere, The Naiad,
etc.

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