Download or read book Benjamin Britten 1913 1976 written by John Evans and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters from a Life Volume 3 1946 1951 written by Benjamin Britten and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Group and the Aldeburgh Festival, and toured widely in Europe and the United States as a pianist and conductor.Correspondents include librettists Ronald Duncan (The Rape of Lucretia), Eric Crozier (Albert Herring, Saint Nicolas, The Little Sweep) and E. M. Forster (Billy Budd); conductor Ernest Ansermet and composer Lennox Berkeley; publishers Ralph Hawkes and Erwin Stein of Boosey & Hawkes; and the celebrated tenor Peter Pears, Britten's partner. Among friends in the United States are Christopher Isherwood, Elizabeth Mayer and Aaron Copland, and there is a significant meeting with Igor Stravinsky.This often startling and innovative period is vividly evoked by the comprehensive and scholarly annotations, which offer a wide range of detailed information fascinating for both the Britten specialist and the general reader.Donald Mitchell contributes a challenging introduction exploring the interaction of life and work in Britten's creativity, and an essay examining for the first time, through their correspondence, the complex relationship between the composer and the writer Edward Sackville-West.
Download or read book Letters from a Life written by Benjamin Britten and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters by the British composer to his friends, family, and colleagues document his life from school days to the end of World War II.
Download or read book Letters from a Life Volume 3 1946 1951 written by Benjamin Britten and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Group and the Aldeburgh Festival, and toured widely in Europe and the United States as a pianist and conductor. Correspondents include librettists Ronald Duncan (The Rape of Lucretia), Eric Crozier (Albert Herring, Saint Nicolas, The Little Sweep) and E. M. Forster (Billy Budd); conductor Ernest Ansermet and composer Lennox Berkeley; publishers Ralph Hawkes and Erwin Stein of Boosey & Hawkes; and the celebrated tenor Peter Pears, Britten's partner. Among friends in the United States are Christopher Isherwood, Elizabeth Mayer and Aaron Copland, and there is a significant meeting with Igor Stravinsky. This often startling and innovative period is vividly evoked by the comprehensive and scholarly annotations, which offer a wide range of detailed information fascinating for both the Britten specialist and the general reader. Donald Mitchell contributes a challenging introduction exploring the interaction of life and work in Britten's creativity, and an essay examining for the first time, through their correspondence, the complex relationship between the composer and the writer Edward Sackville-West.
Download or read book Benjamin Britten written by Charles Pitt and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters from a Life 1923 1939 written by Benjamin Britten and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A landmark: these letters and their extensive annotation provide a virtual biography of the most important British composer since Purcell. . . . All those interested in music in the twentieth century must read these volumes, which also provide intriguing snapshots of the recent British past."--Peter Stansky, Stanford University "This is the composer who turned his paranoia as homosexual and pacifist into the classic 20th-century opera, "Peter Grimes." . . . Now at last we have some really new material about that personal experience. It turns out to be even more fascinating than one could have imagined."--Philip Brett, editor of "Cambridge Opera Handbook Peter Grimes"
Download or read book Benjamin Britten 1913 1976 written by and published by . This book was released on 1978-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Benjamin Britten 1913 1976 Picture from a life written by Donald Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Benjamin Britten His Life and Operas written by Eric Walter White and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition has been thoroughly revised and edited by John Evans (research scholar to the Britten Estate) who has updated the chronological list of published works and included in the bibliography the many books that have been written about the composer since his death in 1976. Although, as the title suggests, this book concentrates on Britten's operatic output, Mr White's account offers insights into the whole range of this prodigious composer's music. The text is lavishly illustrated with plates that reveal both the diversity of his operatic development and comprise a distinctive pictorial bibliography.
Download or read book Benjamin Britten written by Humphrey Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biografie van de Britse componist (1913-1976).
Download or read book Benjamin Britten 1913 1976 written by Edward Benjamin Britten and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Benjamin Britten 1913 1976 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a biography of English composer Edward Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), compiled by Rob Barnett. Discusses his early years and his time at the Royal College of Music in London, England. Lists his principal works and dates of composition and features a chronology and discography. Includes photographs of Britten. Len Mullenger provides the information as part of Classical Music on the Web.
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Download or read book Benjamin Britten written by Humphrey Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Benjamin Britten which presents a panorama of British musical life since the 1920s.
Download or read book Letters from a Life Vol 1 1923 39 written by Benjamin Britten and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-07-07 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 through prep and public school and then to London to the Royal College of Music, where the phenomenally gifted but inexperienced young composer is plunged into metropolitan life and makes influential new friends, among them W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. This was a time of prodigious musical creativity, a growing awareness of his sexuality, and the dawning of his political convictions. Most importantly, during this period Britten met Peter Pears and established the musical and personal relationship that was to last a lifetime. Volume One comes to a close in May 1939, when Britten, accompanied by Pears, departs for North America.The letters and diaries in this illuminating first volume and its successor are supplemented by the editors' detailed commentary and by exhaustive contemporary documentation. Together they constitute a comprehensive portrait not only of the composer but of an age.
Download or read book Letters from a Life 1913 1976 written by Benjamin Britten and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Britten Benjamin 1913 1976 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a biographical sketch of the English composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), presented by HNH International Ltd. Describes operas, as well as orchestral, vocal, choral, and chamber music composed by Britten. Includes a discography of recordings by Britten.
