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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.

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Richard Rodney Bennett
Age: 76 †
Born: 1936
Born: March 29
Died: 2012
Died: December 24
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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.
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People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.
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I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.
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Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.
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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.
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Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent someextremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement andinterest from her... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me themost.
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