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For more men known as Robert Bennett, view Robert Bennett (disambiguation).
Robert Russell Bennett (June 15, 1894 - August 18, 1981)
was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of numerous easily-known Broadway musicals by other composers like Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers.
He exposed composition within Paris using Nadia Boulanger 1926-1929.
His autobiography "Nor Is Not Moved—A Music Arranger's Story" was about complete at a instance of his dying, & was edited & published late (1999) in the book "The Broadway Sound" ISBN One-58046-022-Four.
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