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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett CBE (29 March 1936 – 24 December 2012) was an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist and occasional vocalist. He was based in New York City from 1979 until his death there in 2012.
IMDb profile of Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012), a versatile composer of orchestral, jazz and film music. See his biography, awards, credits, photos and videos.
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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (born March 29, 1936, Broadstairs, Kent, England—died December 24, 2012, New York, New York, U.S.) was a prolific and highly versatile British composer and pianist known for his innovative approach to 12-tone and serial composition—particularly in his concert works.
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Dec 30, 2012 · Richard Rodney Bennett, the British composer who in a long, distinguished career moved with ease among classical concert music, jazz and film, died on Dec. 24 in New York, where he had lived...
Goodbye for Now – In Memory of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett. The fates have been cruel to music recently, not least as far as composers are concerned – in the last few weeks of 2012 we lost Hans Werner Henze, Elliott Carter and Jonathan Harvey, as well as Dave Brubeck and Ravi Shankar.
Richard Rodney Bennett was an eclectic composer of serious orchestral works, jazz songs and music for stage and screen. Of the former, his most famous compositions include a First Symphony, a piano concerto and four string quartets.
Dec 27, 2012 · Sir Richard Rodney Bennett has died aged 76. The British composer was based in New York City until he died there on Christmas Eve. Born in Kent, Sir Bennett went on to win a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, having turned down a place at Oxford University.
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