Possible Clues:

• Composer and bard is oddly after tax rises
• Composer attacked by insects, crossing river
• British, composed, no wife — that's him
• Composer the nation listened to
• Composer runs inside, attacked by dog maybe
• Benjamin --, co-founder of the Aldeburgh festival
• Sound of country music writer
• British composer Benjamin
• Hearing of our nation, this English composer
• Benjamin —, composer