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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, CBE (29 March 193624 December 2012) 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.〔Zachary Woolfe ("Richard Rodney Bennett, British Composer, Dies at 76", ) ''New York Times'', 30 December 2012〕 == Life and career == Bennett was born at Broadstairs, Kent, but was raised in Devon during World War II.〔 His mother, Joan Esther (Spink), was a pianist who had trained with Gustav Holst and sang in the first professional performance of ''The Planets''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sir Richard Rodney Bennett - Writer - Films as Composer:, Publications )〕 His father, Rodney Bennett, (1890-1948) was a children's book author and poet, who worked with Roger Quilter on his theatre works and provided new words for some of the numbers in the ''Arnold Book of Old Songs''. Bennett was a pupil at Leighton Park School. He later studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Howard Ferguson, Lennox Berkeley and Cornelius Cardew. Ferguson regarded him as extraordinarily brilliant, having perhaps the greatest talent of any British composer in his generation, though lacking in a personal style. During this time, Bennett attended some of the Darmstadt summer courses in 1955, where he was exposed to serialism. He later spent two years in Paris as a student of the prominent serialist Pierre Boulez between 1957 and 1959.〔Robert Ponsonby ("Sir Richard Rodney Bennett: Composer whose work encompassed serialism, tonality and popular music", ) ''The Independent'', 26 December 2012〕 He always used both his first names after finding another Richard Bennett active in music. Bennett taught at the Royal Academy of Music between 1963 and 1965, at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, United States from 1970 to 1971, and was later International Chair of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music between 1994 and the year 2000. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1977, and was knighted in 1998. Bennett produced over two hundred works for the concert hall, and fifty scores for film and television. He was also a writer and performer of jazz songs for fifty years. Immersed in the techniques of the European avant-garde via his contact with Boulez, Bennett subsequently developed his own dramato-abstract style. In his later years, he adopted an increasingly tonal idiom. Bennett regularly performed as a jazz pianist, with such singers as Cleo Laine, Marion Montgomery (until her death in 2002), Mary Cleere Haran (until her death in 2011), and more recently with Claire Martin,〔 performing the great American songbook. Bennett and Martin performed at such venues as The Oak Room at The Algonquin in New York (which closed in 2012), and The Pheasantry and Ronnie Scott's in London. In later years, in addition to his musical activities, Bennett became known as an artist working in the medium of collage. He exhibited these collages several times in England, including at the (Holt Festival, Norfolk )〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Holt Festival 2011 | Fine Art )〕 in 2011, and at the Swaledale Festival, Yorkshire, in 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=music, poetry, visual arts, walks, exhibitions, workshops )〕 The first ever exhibition of his collages was in London in 2010, at the South Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Centre, curated by the Nightingale Project, a charity that takes music and art into hospitals. Bennett was a patron of this charity.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Nightingale Project )〕 Bennett is honoured with four photographic portraits in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. Anthony Meredith's biography of Bennett was published in November 2010. Bennett is survived by his sister Meg (born 1930), the poet M. R. Peacocke, with whom he collaborated on a number of vocal works. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Rodney Bennett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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