Sir Richard Rodney Bennett

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(1935) Werner Egk: Premiere of Die Zaubergeige, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

(1950) Richard Strauss: Premiere of Vier Letzte Lieder, in London, England.

(1960) Hans Werner Henze: Premiere of Der Prinz von Homburg, in Hamburg, Germany.

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[details ←] Piano Concerto, Study Score, piano,

[details ←] Suite For Skip And Sadie For Piano Duet, piano,

[details ←] Concerto For Stan Getz (Saxophone/Piano), Tenor saxophone, piano, sax, saxophone,

[details ←] A Good Night (SATB), choral, vocal,

[details ←] Five Charols for SATB Cappella, choral, vocal,

[details ←] Impromptus, Gtr

[details ←] Conversations, 2 Clarinets, clarinet,

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Born: 29 March 1936 — Broadstairs, Kent — England

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Music

Instrumental works

Impromptus (for guitar) (1968)
Concerto for alto saxophone
Concerto for Stan Getz (ten sax & piano)
Elegy for Davis
A Little Suite, based on selections from his song cycles The Insect World and The Aviary.
Farnham Festival Overture (1964) for orchestra
Morning Music for wind band
Reflections on a Sixteenth Century Tune for string orchestra or double wind quintet (1999)
Sonata for solo guitar (1983)
Sonatina for solo clarinet
Summer Music for flute and piano
Trumpet Concerto for trumpet and wind orchestra

Operas

The Ledge — 1961
The Midnight Thief (with libretto by Ian Serraillier) — 1964
The Mines of Sulphur — 1965
A Penny for a Song — 1967
Victory — 1970

Choral works

Missa Brevis — 1990
Sea Change — 1983
Spells, written for soprano Jane Manning
Out of Your Sleep
On Christmas Day to My Heart, written in 1998 for the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge in 1999.
The Garden — A Serenade to Glimmerglass, commissioned by Nicholas Russell for Glimmerglass Opera in honour of Stewart Robertson for its Young American Artists Program — 2006

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