Richard Rodney Bennett, English-American composer and academic (born 1936)

Richard Rodney Bennett

English composer and pianist (1936–2012)

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett was an English composer and pianist. He was noted for his musical versatility, drawing from such sources as jazz, romanticism, and avant-garde; and for his use of twelve-tone technique and serialism. His body of work included over 200 concert works and…