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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.
Mar 25, 2024 · 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...
Richard Rodney Bennett. Composer: Murder on the Orient Express. 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.
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- Broadstairs, Kent, England, UK
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- Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Dec 25, 2012 · Tue 25 Dec 2012 09.46 EST. Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, one of Britain's most versatile and talented composers and performers, has died peacefully on Christmas Eve in his adopted home city of...
- Charlotte Higgins
Jul 22, 2011 · Richard Rodney Bennett, who had been writing for the screen since he was 18, and who was a technically brilliant classical composer with a deep knowledge of 1930s popular music, was an ideal...
Richard Rodney Bennett | British Music Collection. Biography. As one of Britain’s most respected and versatile musicians, Bennett produced over two hundred works for the concert hall, and fifty scores for film and television, as well as having been a writer and per former of jazz songs for fifty years.
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