Benjamin Britten His Life And Operas
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Benjamin Britten His Life And Operas
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Author : Eric Walter White
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1983
Benjamin Britten His Life And Operas written by Eric Walter White and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Music categories.
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
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Author : Lucy Walker
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2009
Benjamin Britten written by Lucy Walker and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Music categories.
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
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Author : Paul Kildea
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-01-28
Benjamin Britten written by Paul Kildea and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 popular consciousness and the musical canon. He did all this while carrying two disadvantages to worldly success - his passionately held pacifism, which made him suspect to the authorities during and immediately after the Second World War - and his homosexuality, specifically his forty-year relationship with Peter Pears, for whom many of his greatest operatic roles and vocal works were created. The atmosphere and personalities of Aldeburgh in his native Suffolk also form another wonderful dimension to the book. Kildea shows clearly how Britten made this creative community, notably with the foundation of the Aldeburgh Festival and the building of Snape Maltings, but also how costly the determination that this required was. Above all, this book helps us understand the relationship of Britten's music to his life, and takes us as far into his creative process as we are ever likely to go. Kildea reads dozens of Britten's works with enormous intelligence and sensitivity, in a way which those without formal musical training can understand. It is one of the most moving and enjoyable biographies of a creative artist of any kind to have appeared for years. Paul Kildea is a writer and conductor who has performed many of the Britten works he writes about, in opera houses and concert halls from Sydney to Hamburg. His previous books include Selling Britten (2002) and (as editor) Britten on Music (2003). He was Head of Music at the Aldeburgh Festival between 1999 and 2002 and subsequently Artistic Director of the Wigmore Hall in London.
Letters From A Life Vol 2 1939 45
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Author : Benjamin Britten
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-07-07
Letters From A Life Vol 2 1939 45 written by Benjamin Britten and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 relationship between Britten and Pears deepened into a partnership that was to endure for almost forty years.Their absence from England during the first years of the war led to sharp public comment and controversy, much of it documented here. On their return from America in 1942, hostility to their pacifist convictions and to their homosexuality resurfaced. Prejudice and subterfuge even affected the première of Peter Grimes in 1945, although it could not prevent the opera from being an unprecedented success.The letters in this second volume from the years 1939 to 1945 are among the most fascinating of the correspondence, and - supplemented by the editors' detailed commentary and by exhaustive contemporary documentation - offer a unique insight into American history, politics and culture during the Second World War.
Letters From A Life Volume 3 1946 1951
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Author : Benjamin Britten
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2012-08
Letters From A Life Volume 3 1946 1951 written by Benjamin Britten and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08 with Composers categories.
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.
Benjamin Britten
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Author : Neil Powell
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-01-31
Benjamin Britten written by Neil Powell and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 London’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 was where Britten, as he himself said, belonged: this was where he returned to write his most famous opera, Peter Grimes, and – with Pears and Eric Crozier – to found the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948. In the years that followed, his worldwide reputation grew steadily, helped by a busy schedule of international tours and, for many, crowned by the extraordinary success of his War Requiem. Meanwhile, his festival went from strength to strength, its progress symbolised by the opening of Snape Maltings Concert Hall in 1967. Britten was a mass of paradoxes: a solitary, introspective thinker who came to ebullient life in the company of young people, for whom he composed some of his most memorable works; a man of the political left who was on the friendliest terms with members of the royal family; a composer inspired by some of the twentieth century’s deepest preoccupations who combined innovation with a profound understanding of musical tradition. Devoted to his friends, protégés and fellow musicians, he was, above all, someone who lived for music. Neil Powell’s book is the landmark biography for Britten’s centenary year: a subtle and moving portrait of a brilliant, complex and ultimately loveable man.
The Operas Of Benjamin Britten
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Author : Patricia Howard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Operas Of Benjamin Britten written by Patricia Howard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Britten, Benjamin, 1913- categories.
"Benjamin Britten's dramatic works--full operas, chamber operas, and dramas for church performance--dominate the repertoire of contemporary English opera, though they no longer monopolize it. His Peter Grimes will always rank with The Siege of Rhodes as a new beginning for English opera; unlike Sir William D'Avenant's work, the score of Peter Grimes seems likely to survive. Performances of Britten's operas are, however, far from frequent, and the average listener cannot readily form an impression of the scope and development of the series or absorb all the riches of individual works simply from his experiences in the opera house. The majority of British operagoers have a chance to see any one opera by Britten only once or twice in a lifetime. This book is designed to enable them, as well as the thousands of Americans who know Britten's operas exclusively through phonograph records, to make the most of these opportunities; it not only briefs the reader on events on-stage and in the orchestra, but it also prepares him for the experience of becoming involved in the drama. Patricia Howard distinguishes between details that can be perceived by a 'first-time' audience and those that are available only to the listener with an intimate knowledge of the score. Those who already know the operas well can relive them through this book, which has nearly 100 music illustrations. The author's personal approach is stimulating and at times provocative. There is a chapter on each of Britten's dramatic works, including Noye's Fludde and the Parables for Church Performance, but excluding the edited Dido, the revised Beggar's Opera, and the early Paul Bunyan. There is also a general survey of Britten's musicodramatic art throughout the canon. Although it is primarily intended to assist the inexperienced listener and stimulate the confirmed operagoer, Mrs. Howard's book should interest all those concerned with writing, producing, or studying opera of our time."--Dust jacket.
Britten S Century
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Author : Mark Bostridge
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-06-20
Britten S Century written by Mark Bostridge and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
2013 marks the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. Here is an outstanding collection of essays to mark the event. Britten's Century considers various aspects of Britten's life and work. The book is written by biographers, performers and music critics. Here is a wealth of subject matter - Britten's operatic output, his orchestral works, his contribution to the revival of English song. Biographically, this book moves on beyond the relationship with Peter Pears and the salacious speculation about his infatuation with various boys, to a consideration of Britten's experience as a homosexual man living in a largely homophobic society. Another area here which is often overlooked is the view of Britten from outside the British Isles - the USA and Italy, where his operas have long been extremely popular.
Letters From A Life Vol 1 1923 39
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Author : Benjamin Britten
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2011-07-07
Letters From A Life Vol 1 1923 39 written by Benjamin Britten and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
Benjamin Britten The Turn Of The Screw
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Author : Patricia Howard
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1985-09-19
Benjamin Britten The Turn Of The Screw written by Patricia Howard and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985-09-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book is designed to introduce the non-specialist music lover to Britten's opera, The Turn of the Screw. The opening chapters by Vivien Jones and Patricia Howard deal with the literary source of the opera Oames's novella), the structure of the libretto, and the technique by which a short story was transformed into an opera. The central chapter, on the musical style and structures of the opera, includes an account of the composition process deduced from early sketches of the work by John Evans, an analysis of the unique form of the opera with a more detailed examination of the last scene by Patricia Howard, and an account of the significance and effect of the orchestration by Christopher Palmer. Finally, Patricia Howard traces the stage history of the work, from its initial reception in Venice in 1954, through some seminal reinterpretations in the 1960s to its present established position in the repertoire. The book is generously illustrated and there is also a bibliography and discography.