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“ Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley (12 May 190326 December 1989) was an English composer.

Biography
He was born in Oxford, England, and educated at the Dragon School, Gresham's School and Merton College, Oxford. His father was Hastings George Fitzhardinge Berkeley, a captain in the Royal Navy and illegitimate son of George Lennox Rawdon Berkeley, 7th Earl of Berkeley (1827–1888).
In 1927, he went to Paris to study music with Nadia Boulanger, and there he became acquainted with Francis Poulenc, Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger and Albert Roussel. Berkeley also studied with Maurice Ravel, often cited as a key influence in Berkeley's technical development as a composer. The French influence would continue to be felt in his music.
He worked for the BBC during the Second World War, and later became president of the Performing Rights Society.
He enjoyed a long association with Benjamin Britten, another old boy of Gresham's School, with whom he collaborated on a number of works; these included Mont Juic, and Variations on an Elizabethan Theme (the latter also with four other composers).
He was also often associated with the pianist Colin Horsley, who commissioned the Horn Trio and some piano pieces, and gave the first performances and/or made [......] ”

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