Sir Richard Rodney Bennett

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Born	March 29, 1936 • England
Died	December 24, 2012 (aged 76) • New York City • New York
Movement / Style	serialism

Igor Stravinsky

Russian composer

Gunther Schuller

American composer

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Russian composer

Sergey Prokofiev

Russian composer

Aaron Copland

American composer

Leonard Bernstein

American composer and conductor

Henri Sauguet

French composer

Arnold Schoenberg

American composer

Alfred Schnittke

Russian composer

Sir Andrzej Panufnik

British composer and conductor

Thea Musgrave

British composer

Sir Eugene Goossens

British conductor

Johannes Brahms

German composer

Felix Mendelssohn

German musician and composer

Maurice Ravel

French composer

Francis Poulenc

French composer

Carlos Surinach

American composer

Alfredo Casella

Italian composer

Jean Françaix

French composer and musician

Pierre Boulez

French composer and conductor

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