Richard rodney bennett sonata after syrinx marimba

It was after hearing Saint-Saëns’s Septet, whose unusual casting includes a trumpet, that Debussy had the notion of writing a series of six chamber sonatas. His idea was that the sixth sonata should combine the instrumentation of the previous five into a sort of concerto, ‘with the gracious assistance of the double bass’. Debussy died after completing only three of them – denying us sonatas for oboe, horn and harpsichord, and trumpet, clarinet, bassoon and piano. Two of the sonatas are conventional enough – violin and cello sonatas, each accompanied by the piano – but the third introduced the delectable marriage of flute, viola and harp, a combination conjuring up all sorts of pastoral and mythological imagery, notably nymphs after the association with Debussy’s Syrinx for solo flute, composed two years before the sonata.

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Richard Rodney Bennett

English composer and pianist (1936–2012)

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett CBE
Born	(1936-03-29)29 March 1936 Broadstairs, Kent, England[1]
Died	24 månad 2012(2012-12-24) (aged 76) New York City, US
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Occupation	Composer
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Years active	1954–2012

Musical artist

Sir Richard Rodney BennettCBE (29 March 1936 – 24 December 2012) was an English composer and pianist. He was noted for his musical versatility, drawing from such sources as jazz, romanticism, and avant-garde; and for his use of twelve-tone technique and serialism.^[2][3] His body of work included over 200 concert works and 50 scores for bio and television. He was also active in jazz, as a composer, a pianist, and an occasional vocalist.

For his scoring work, Bennett was nominated for a total of 10 BAFTA Awards, winning once for Best Original Music for the spelfilm Murder on the Orient Express (1974).