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Benjamin Britten
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Benjamin Britten

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.

Benjamin Britten in Context
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 427

Benjamin Britten in Context

Benjamin Britten, pianist, conductor, educator, composer of a wide range of music from large-scale operas and choral works to string quartets and songs, is acknowledged as a pivotal figure in mid-twentieth-century Britain. This volume explores the contexts for his multi-faceted career and his engagement with his contemporaries in music, art, literature, and film, British musical institutions, royal and governmental entities, and the church, as well as his ground-breaking projects, philosophical and ideological tenets. The book is thematically structured in five parts: Britten's relationships with Peter Pears, his close friends, mentors, and colleagues; musical life in Britain; his interactions with previous and contemporary generations of composers; his professional work with choreographers, librettists, stage designers, and directors; and his socio-cultural, religious, and political environment. The chapters shed light on the many opportunities and challenges of post-war British musical life that shaped Britten's creative output.

A Life for Music
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 530

A Life for Music

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-02-27
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  • Publisher: Random House

Benjamin Britten was the greatest English composer of the twentieth century and one of the outstanding musicians of his age. Born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, in 1913, Britten was the youngest child of a dentist father and amateur musician mother. After studying at the Royal College of Music, he became a vital part of LondonĂ¢e(tm)s creative and intellectual life during the 1930s, collaborating with W. H. Auden and meeting his lifelong partner, the tenor Peter Pears. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Britten and Pears were already in America, earning a precarious living as freelance musicians before re-crossing the Atlantic by ship in the perilous days of 1942. But the east coast of England...

Benjamin Britten
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

Benjamin Britten

An essay collection which examines Britten's juvenilia, influences such as Shostakovich and Verdi, his opera Owen Wingrave and a libretto written by Australian novelist Patrick White with the hope of a future collaboration.

Benjamin Britten
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 870

Benjamin Britten

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-01-28
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

Published to mark the beginning of the Britten centenary year in 2013, Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer. In the eyes of many, Benjamin Britten was our finest composer since Purcell (a figure who often inspired him) three hundred years earlier. He broke decisively with the romantic, nationalist school of figures such as Parry, Elgar and Vaughan Williams and recreated English music in a fresh, modern, European form. With Peter Grimes (1945), Billy Budd (1951) and The Turn of the Screw (1954), he arguably composed the last operas - from any composer in any country - which have entered both the popul...

Britten, Voice and Piano
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Britten, Voice and Piano

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-10-03
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This collection of eight 'lectures' by internationally acclaimed pianist, Graham Johnson, is based on a series of concert talks given at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama as part of the Benjamin Britten festival in 2001. The focus of the book is on Britten's songs, starting with his earliest compositions in the genre. Graham Johnson suggests that the nature of Britten's creativity is especially apparent in his setting of poetry, that he becomes the poet's alter-ego. A chapter on Britten's settings of Auden and Eliot explores the particular influences these writers brought to bear at opposite poles of the composer's life. The inspiration of fellow musicians is also discussed, with a cha...

Britten's Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 202

Britten's Century

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-01-01
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

November 2013 marks the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. Here is an outstanding collection of essays to mark the event.

The Music of Benjamin Britten
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 574

The Music of Benjamin Britten

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1989
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Benjamin Britten
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

Benjamin Britten

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-08
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This work constitutes the largest and most comprehensive research guide ever published about Benjamin Britten. Entries survey the most significant published materials relating to the composer, including bibliographies, catalogs, letters and documents, conference reports, biographies, and studies of Britten's music.

Remembering Britten
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Remembering Britten

A collection of first-hand accounts from various associates of Benjamin Britten.