Composer Portraits: Richard Rodney Bennett

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music, Instruments & Instruction, Piano & Keyboard, Songbooks, Musical Scores

• Author: Wise Publications
• ISBN: 9781783232666
• Publisher: Music Sales Limited
• Publication: February 25, 2014
• Imprint: Wise Publications
• Language: English

The Composer Portraits series offers unique and original monographs on individual composers. Text and music introductions written by experts are combined with carefully chosen selections of newly-engraved music to give a concise but informed overview of the life and work of each composer.

This edition focuses on the life and works of the English composer Richard Rodney Bennett, with notes by Anthony Meredith.

Songlist:

- Eustace And Hilda (Theme)
- Excursions - II. Andante lento
- Impromptu on the name of Haydn
- Little Elegy
- Memento
- Partridge Pie - VIII. Eight Maids a-Milking
- Rosemary's Waltz (from Tender Is The Night)
- Tango After Syrinx
- Three Romantic Pieces - III. Andante semplice