Benjamin Britten (1913 – 76) began composing at the age of six, and his first compositions were published while he was still a student. He made a living through writing music for documentary films in the 1930s, beginning a collaboration with W H Auden which continued when he and his life-long partner, the singer Peter Pears, moved to the USA in 1939. Returning in 1942 he began work on his operatic masterpiece, Peter Grimes, the first of the many operas that dominated his career.His greatest public success came with the War Requiem in 1962; he died four years after the completion of his final opera, Death in Venice.
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Benjamin Britten: Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39
Volume One of these remarkable letters and diaries opens with a letter from Britten aged nine to his formidable mother, Edith. Music is already at the centre of his life, and it accompanies him throu …
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Benjamin Britten: Letters from a Life Vol 2: 1939-45
In May 1939 Britten and Pears disembarked at Montreal at the start of their American visit, which was to be a period of intense musical activity and new personal relationships. At the same time, the …
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€16.57
Benjamin Britten: Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951)
The third volume of the annotated selected letters of composer Benjamin Britten covers the years 1946-51, during which he wrote many of his best-known works, founded and developed the English Opera G …
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€16.69
Benjamin Britten: Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream was Benjamin Britten’s seventh major opera and had its premiere at Aldeburgh in 1960. Britten and his partner Peter Pears prepared a condensed version of Shakespeare’s much- …
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€12.80
Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes/Gloriana
This is a double volume dedicated to two masterpieces by Benjamin Britten. While Peter Grimes established Britten as a composer of international standing, Gloriana, composed for the coronation of Eli …
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€11.47