Richard Rodney Bennett
Richard Rodney Bennett
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBEwas an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist. He was based in New York City from 1979 until his death there in 2012...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth29 March 1936
Richard Rodney Bennett quotes about
nice writing play
I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.
encouragement firsts pieces
Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.
writing want strings
I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.
hearing firsts first-time
When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.