“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.” FirstsPiecesWrittenEncouragementComposerMarvellousInfantile Author:Richard Rodney Bennett
“People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.” PeopleFirstsAsksPieces Author:Richard Rodney Bennett
“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.” FirstsWantedHeardFirst TimeHearing Author:Richard Rodney Bennett
