11 FEBRUARY 1854, Page 13

Mr. Sterndale Bennett gave the first of his annual concerts

of classical pianoforte music, at the Hanover Square Rooms, on Tuesday evening. Mr. Bennett was the originator of this description of concert ; but, though he has many followers, his performances still maintain their preeminence, and no other person has had so great an influence in main- taining the great and pure school of the pianoforte against the corruptions of the day. On Tuesday evening he gave several of the finest solo and concerted pieces of Dussek, Mozart, and Beethoven, with fugues of Handel and Mendelssohn, and several short but exquisite movementsof his own, composed for the use of Queen's College. A fashionable au- dience, sufficient to fill the great room, assembled to hear this severe and learned music.