The British Musical Biography

[E] Benson, George, composer and tenor
singer, was born in 1814. He was a gentle-
man of the Chapel Royal, and in 1878 he
graduated Mus. Bac, Cambridge. He died
at London, August 9, 1884. He composed
Glees: If music be the food of love (prize,
1863) ; Orpheus with his lute ; True love to
win. Sleep little baby, sleep, four-part song.
The Wooer, madrigal. My God look upon me ;
I will arise, anthenis. Songs, etc.

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