Richard Rodney Bennett
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Born in Broadstairs and raised in Devon, he studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Howard Ferguson and Lennox Berkeley, attended the 1955 Darmstadt courses and spent two years with Pierre Boulez in Paris, experiences that informed his early modernist style. He wrote over two hundred concert works and fifty film scores, with titles such as Murder on the Orient Express, Far from the Madding Cro…
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