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Richard Rodney Bennett [1936-0] British

Rank: 106
Composer

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE was 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.

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I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.		101
I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.		102
The different parts of my career seemed to take part in different rooms, albeit in the same house. It was just the way things were and I didn't actually think much about it at the time.		103
Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.		104
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.		105
I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.		106
I hated teaching composition. I was playing music I didn't particularly want to play, being on committees I didn't want to be on.		107
People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.		108

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