# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-rodney-bennett
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:02:20.350Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-rodney-bennett"
name: "Richard Rodney Bennett"
slug: "richard-rodney-bennett"
description: "Sir Richard Rodney Bennett 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. His body of work included over 200 concert works and 50 scores for film and television. He was also active in jazz, as a composer, a pianist, and an occasional vocalist."
tagline: "British composer and pianist (1936-2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/Sir-Richard-Rodney-Bennett.jpg"
gender: "male"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1936-03-29"
deathDate: "2012-12-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump