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Richard Rodney Bennett
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British composer and pianist (1936-2012)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 80
Top works
- Within the Quota
- Richard Rodney Bennett
- Absolute Beginners - Piano
- Glory and the Dream
- Bennett, RR Choral Collection SATB/Acc
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Broadstairs, Kent, England, UK
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. Description above from the Wikipedia page Richard Rodney Bennett, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
- Making 'Murder on the Orient-Express' — Self2004
- Elizabeth Maconchy — Self1984
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 12,584
- Total plays
- 69,814
Tags
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE (29 March 1936 – 24 December 2012) was a British composer renowned for his film scores and his jazz performance as much as for his challenging concert works. He was based in New York City from 1979. 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 performer of jazz songs for fifty years. <a href="https://www.last.f
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Bennett
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Broadstairs
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- film score composer
- Employer
- Royal Academy of Music
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- piano
- Record label
- EMI Classics
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- birth name
- Richard Rodney Bennett
- writing language
- English language
- place of burial
- Green-Wood Cemetery
- date of death
- 2012-12-24
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Score
- date of birth
- 1936-03-29
- start of work period
- 1954-00-00
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