Benjamin Britten (1913–1976)
Autore di The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra [sound recording]
Sull'Autore
Considered the most significant British composer since seventeenth-century composer Henry Purcell, Benjamin Britten excelled in composing series of songs, operas, and other types of vocal music. Pursuing a youthful interest in the piano, Britten studied at the Royal College of Music in London. His mostra altro work drew the favorable attention of critics with the premiere of his Fantasy Quartet for Oboe and Strings in 1934. A conscientious objector in World War II; Britten composed War Requiem (1962) as a tribute to the victims of war everywhere. The composition, which incorporates parts for soloists, choruses, and orchestra, is based on the Latin text of the Mass for the Dead and verses by Wilfred Owen, a young English soldier killed in World War I. Following its first performance at Coventry Cathedral in Coventry, England, it received worldwide acclaim. After World War II, Britten devoted himself principally to composing operas. His first operatic work was Paul Bunyan (1941), a choral operetta about a lumberjack who likes to sing ballads. Britten's two most successful operas are Peter Grimes (1945) and The Turn of the Screw (1954). Other operas by Britten include Rape of Lucretia (1946), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960), and Death in Venice (1973). Using a remarkable sensitivity to text, Britten evolved vocal melodic lines followed by orchestral interludes that punctuate and enhance the dramatic flow of his operas. Britten died in 1976. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Benjamin Britten
A Ceremony of Carols: for treble voices and harp or piano, op. 28 [score] (1942) — Compositore — 47 copie
Peter and the Wolf / The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra / Carnival of the Animals (1991) — Compositore — 18 copie
Noye's Fludde (vocal score) 13 copie
String quartet no. 3 ; Simple symphony ; Quartettino ; Alla marcia (sound recording) (1999) 10 copie
Billy Budd [programme book] 9 copie
Yo-Yo Ma: Cello Concerto 8 copie
Holiday Diary 8 copie
Peter Grimes [programme book] 8 copie
Letters from a Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 1: 1923-1939 and Vol. 2: 1939-1945 (1991) 8 copie
The Rape of Lucretia: a symposium by Benjamin Britten, Ronald Duncan, John Piper, Henry Boys, Eric crozier & Angus… (1948) 7 copie
String Quartet No. 2 (Score) 7 copie
Rejoice in the Lamb / Hymn to St. Cecilia / Missa Brevis & Other Choral Works [sound recording] (2000) 7 copie
Cello Symphony, op. 68 / Sinfonia da Requiem, op. 20 / Cantata misericordium, op. 69 [sound recording] (1989) 6 copie
Five Flower Songs, Op. 47; A.M.D.G; A Hymn to the Virgin; Choral Dances from 'Gloriana'; Chorale after an Old French… (2003) 6 copie
Friday afternoons 6 copie
The Operas of Benjamin Britten: The Complete Librettos : Illustrated With Costume and Set Designs of the First… (1979) 6 copie
Paul Bunyan [sound recording] — Compositore — 5 copie
Billy Budd [vocal score] 5 copie
The Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra / Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge / Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia… (2002) 5 copie
Britten : St. Nicolas + Howells : Three carol anthems [sound recording] (2009) — Compositore — 5 copie
Albert Herring [programme book] 5 copie
Night-Piece (Notturno) 5 copie
Britten : Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, op.31 + Elgar : Serenade for strings in E minor, op.20 + Vaughan… (1938) — Compositore — 5 copie
This Little Babe 5 copie
Our Hunting Fathers 4 copie
Hymn to Saint Peter 4 copie
Simple Symphony / Temporal Variations / Suite on English Folk Tunes [sound recording] (2005) 4 copie
Rattle Conducts Britten [sound recording] — Compositore — 4 copie
Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge / Matinees Musicales / Soirees Musicales [sound recording] — Compositore — 4 copie
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra / Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia [sound recording] (1990) 4 copie
String Quartet No. 2 (Parts) 4 copie
Billy Budd 4 copie
Orchestral Anthology - Volume 2: The Masterworks Library (The Boosey & Hawkes Masterworks Library) (1998) 4 copie
Sinfonietta 4 copie
Sinfonia Da Requiem, Op. 20 / 4 Sea Interludes, Op. 33a / Passacaglia / An American Overture [sound recording] (1995) 4 copie
A Ceremony of Carols / Rejoice in Lamb / Missa Brevis / Te Deum / Jubilate [sound recording] (1991) 3 copie
Sinfonia da Requiem / Sea interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes [sound recording] (2005) 3 copie
Phaedra. Dramatic cantata for mezzo-soprano and small orchestra. Op. 93. Words from a verse translation of… (1998) 3 copie
Four Burns Songs. For high voice and piano. From 'A Birthday Hansel' ... Settings of poems by Robert Burns. The piano… (1998) 3 copie
Symphony No. 2. Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings. Knussen: Symphony No. 3/Ashkenazy, Royal Phil. — Compositore — 3 copie
Owen Wingrave (Vocal Score) 3 copie
Song Cycles: Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo / Winter Words / Who Are the Children? / Tit for Tat / Let the florid music… (2006) 3 copie
Prokofiev: Peter And The Wolf / Lieutenant Kije / Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1996) — Compositore — 3 copie
Piano concerto, Op.13 [score] — Compositore — 3 copie
Our Hunting Fathers / Quatre Chansons Françaises / Folksongs / Sinfonietta, Op. 1 [sound recording] (1998) 3 copie
Psalm 150 (vocal score) 3 copie
A Ceremony of Carols / A Boy Was Born / Friday Afternoons / Psalm 150 [sound recording] (1997) 3 copie
Simple Symphony, Op.4 / Prelude and Fugue, Op.29 / Lachrymae, Op.48a / Chacony in G minor [sound recording] (1989) — Compositore — 3 copie
String Quartet No. 1 (Parts) 3 copie
The young person's guide to the orchestra,op.34 : Variations and fugue on a theme of purcell 3 copie
The Golden Vanity, op.78 : a vaudeville for boys and piano after the old English ballad (1998) 3 copie
String Quartet No. 3 (Parts) 3 copie
Antiphon 3 copie
Death in Venice [programme book] 3 copie
String Quartet No. 1 (Score) 3 copie
Four Sea Interludes / Passacaglia / Young Apollo / Lachrymae / Simple Symphony / Suite from 'Death in Venice' /… (1999) 2 copie
Instruments of the Orchestra 2 copie
Warlock: Capriol Suite / Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad / Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge [sound… — Compositore — 2 copie
Strauss: Horn Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 / Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings [sound recording] (2013) — Compositore — 2 copie
5 Classic Albums: Britten / Schubert: Lieder & Winterreise / Wolf Lieder / Händel [sound recording] (2010) — Compositore — 2 copie
I Lov'd a Lass 2 copie
Noye's Fludde (full score) 2 copie
Violin concerto in D minor, Op.15 [sound recording] — Compositore — 2 copie
Three Suites, Opp. 72, 80 & 87: Transcription of Three Suites for Cello, Parts (Faber Edition) (2013) 2 copie
Britten : Sinfonia da Requiem + Tchaikovsky : Symphony no.6 in B minor, Op.74 [sound recording] — Compositore — 2 copie
Britten : Simple Symphony + Britten : Violin concerto, Op.15 + Vaughan Williams : Concerto Accademico [sound recording] (1991) 2 copie
Owen Wingrave [programme book] 2 copie
"Wolcum Yole!" (from "A Ceremony of Carols") (SSS with harp/piano accompaniment) (Winthrop Rogers Edition, OCTB1755B /… (1943) 2 copie
Simple Symphony / Piano Concerto, Op. 13 / Young Person's Guide to the Opera [sound recording] (2007) 2 copie
Britten: Sinfonia Da Requiem / The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra / Four Sea Interludes, Passacaglia (Peter… (1993) 2 copie
Five Flower Songs 2 copie
Britten : Young person's guide to the orchestra + Holst : The planets [sound recording] (2009) — Compositore — 2 copie
Britten : Symphony for cello and orchestra, Op.68 + Elgar : Cello concerto in E minor, Op.85 [sound recording] — Compositore — 2 copie
Winter Words / On This Island / Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo / Folksong Arrangements / Canticles I–III [sound… (2000) — Compositore — 2 copie
Canticle IV: Journey of the Magi, Op. 86 [for counter-tenor, tenor, baritone & piano] [score] (1998) 2 copie
Choral Edition v.3 2 copie
Part Songs 2 copie
Noye's Fludde [sound recording] 2 copie
Song from the Chinese 2 copie
The Birds 2 copie
The Evening Primrose Op.47 No.4 2 copie
Britten Songs [CD] 2 copie
A Hymn of St Columba 2 copie
Cello Symphony / Symphonic Suite From Gloriana/ Four Sea Interludes from 'Peter Grimes' (2011) 2 copie
PROKOFIEV: PETER AND THE WOLF / BRITTEN: YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA - vinyl lp. — Compositore — 1 copia
Three Two-part Songs 1 copia
Advance Democracy 1 copia
Psalm 150 (full score) 1 copia
Benjamin Britten — Compositore — 1 copia
Twelve Variations for Piano 1 copia
Benjamin Britten - Gebundeld 1 copia
Sacheverell Sitwell - Lambert: The Rio Grande / Britten: Four Sea Interludes [sound recording] 1 copia
The Sally Gardens [score] 1 copia
Music for Recorders: Scherzo 1 copia
Violin Concerto / Double Concerto / Lachrymae [sound recording] — Compositore — 1 copia
A tragic story 1 copia
English Music for Strings 1 copia
A Time Was Theere 1 copia
Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem & Four Interludes and Passacaglia / Holst: Ballet 'The Perfect Fool' - Egdon Heath [sound… (2008) 1 copia
Britten: The Turn of the Screw (Toby Spence, Miah Persson, Susan Bickley, Giselle Allen - Glyndebourne Production)… (2012) 1 copia
Lost is my quiet 1 copia
Compositores 1 copia
Four Sea Interludes / The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra / Simple Symphony — Compositore — 1 copia
Escolania de Montserrat: Britten, Mendelssohn, Cererols — Compositore — 1 copia
Young Person's Guide. Suite on English Folk Tunes. Johnson Over Jordan, etc/Hickox, Bournemouth SO 1 copia
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / Saint-Saens: Carnaval des animaux, zoological fantasy No 1-14 / Britten: The Young… (1998) — Compositore — 1 copia
Beethoven : Violin concerto + Britten : Violin concerto, Op.15 [sound recording] — Compositore — 1 copia
Bax : Tintagel + Britten : Storm {Four Interludes from Peter Grimes} + Elgar : Sea pictures, Op.37 + Stanford : Songs… — Compositore — 1 copia
BBC Proms 2005 : Prom 05 : Michael Berkeley, Benjamin Britten and Vaughan Williams [video recording] (2005) — Compositore — 1 copia
BBC Proms 2020 : Prom 06 : Proms at ... Salford Quays [sound recording] (2020) — Compositore — 1 copia
BBC Proms 2020 : Prom 06 : Proms at ... Salford Quays [video recording] (2020) — Compositore — 1 copia
Metmorphoses for oboe solo; Fantasy quartet for oboe, violin, viola and cello; String Quartet 1 copia
From Brighton to Brooklyn [sound recording] — Compositore — 1 copia
Saint Saëns: Christmas Oratorio / Britten: A Ceremony of Carols [sound recording] — Compositore — 1 copia
British Solo Cello Music [sound recording] — Compositore — 1 copia
On this Island. [Songs.] Words by W. H. Auden. Texte frana̧is by Maurice Pourchet. (Op. 11.) 1 copia
A Wedding Anthem (Amo ergo sum). Soprano and tenor soli, choir and organ. Words by Ronald Duncan 1 copia
Julian Bream Edition Vol 12 1 copia
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra / Four Sea Interludes / Cello Symphony [sound recording] 1 copia
Sinfonia da Requiem + Four Sea Interludes + Young Person' Guide to the Opera [sound recording] 1 copia
Britten: Death in Venice 1 copia
Friday Afternoons Volume 2 1 copia
The ploughboy (Sheet music) 1 copia
The Prince of the Pagodas [1990 TV movie] — Compositore — 1 copia
The holy sonnets of John Donne 1 copia
The little sweep : Sammy's bath 1 copia
The Little Sweep (vocal score) 1 copia
Guida del giovane all'orchestra op. 34 - Sinfonia semplice op. 4 - Sei Metamorfosi da Ovidio 1 copia
THE WORLD OF BRITISH CLASSICS Vl 1 copia
The Winter [score] 1 copia
The World Of Benjamin Britten 1 copia
A Boy Was Born. Rejoice in the Lamb/Britten, Purcell Singers. Hartnett, Steele, Todd, Francke 1 copia
String Quartet No.1 in D major, Op 25 / Shostakovich - Piano Quintet in G major, Op.57 (2007) 1 copia
Britten : The young person's guide to the orchestra, Op.34 + Elgar : Cello concerto in E minor, Op.85 + Vaughan… — Compositore — 1 copia
Sinfonia da Requiem / Occasional Overture / American Overture / Suite on English Folk Tunes [sound recording] (1989) 1 copia
Songs and folksongs 1 copia
Four Sea Interludes / Gloriana Suite / The Prince of the Pagodas: Pas de six [sound recording] 1 copia
Parfum 1 copia
The National Anthem 1 copia
Agnus Dei 1 copia
Oliver Cromwell 1 copia
Quartettino 1940 1 copia
Jubilate in E flat 1 copia
Four Sea Interludes & Passacaglia From "Peter Grimes" / Sinfonia da Requiem [sound recording] (1976) 1 copia
Venite 1 copia
Britten: Symphony for Cello & Orchestra / Bridge: Oration - Concerto Elegiaco - for Solo Cello & Orchestra [sound… — Compositore — 1 copia
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra / Peter Grimes: Sea Interludes / Gloriana: Courtly Dances / A Time There Was:… (1991) 1 copia
In the Beginning — Compositore — 1 copia
Shepherd's Carol 1 copia
Benjamin Britten : The Collector's Edition ; The Masterpieces ; The Greatest Artists (37 CDs) 1 copia
Britten : Young person's guide to the orchestra + Elgar : Variations on an original theme 'Enigma', Op.36 [sound… — Compositore — 1 copia
Britten : Violin concerto, Op.15 + Heming : Threnody for a Soldier Killed in Action + Rubbra : Symphony No. 5 + Rubbra… — Compositore — 1 copia
Britten: Four Sea Interludes + Haydn: Symphony No.104 + Shostakovich: Symphony no.1 in F minor, Op.10 [sound recording] (2006) — Compositore — 1 copia
Britten : The young person's guide to the orchestra, Op.34 + Mussorgsky : Pictures at an exhibition {orch. Ravel}… — Compositore — 1 copia
Britten: Spring Symphony, War Requiem [Disc 2] — Compositore — 1 copia
Britten: Spring Symphony, War Requiem [Disc 1] — Compositore — 1 copia
Britten the Performer~Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes; Tchaikovsky / Rossini: Songs&Duets (1999) 1 copia
A Chrsitmas Sequence 1 copia
Paul Bunyan (Vocal Score) 1 copia
Benjamin Britten - The Turn of the Screw / Eilene Hannan, Margaret Haggart, Anson Austin, Wendy Dixon, The West… (2008) 1 copia
Britten - Peter Grimes 1 copia
Missa Brevis: Kyrie [score] 1 copia
Boosey and Hawkes The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books Series by… (2014) 1 copia
Peter Grimes 1 copia
To Daffodils Op.47 1 copia
Works for Solo Organ [score] 1 copia
Britten: String Quartets Nos. 1-3 & Three Divertimenti / Purcell: String Fantasias in Four Parts [sound recording] (2019) 1 copia
Marsh Flowers Op.47 No.3 1 copia
Opere correlate
An ABC of Music: A Short Practical Guide to the Basic Essentials of Rudiments, Harmony, and Form (1963) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni — 111 copie
Wolcum Yule: Celtic and British Songs and Carols - Anonymous 4 with Andrew Lawrence-King (2011) — Compositore — 15 copie
Tavener: The Protecting Veil; Thrinos / Britten: Third Suite for Cello, op. 87 [sound recording] (1996) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
Great British Orchestras: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Volume 1 [sound recording] — Compositore — 4 copie
História da Música, 1935-1950: música para antes e depois de uma guerra (1997) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Perspectives [sound recording] — Compositore — 2 copie
Leonard Bernstein, an American life [music from the radio documentary] — Compositore — 2 copie
BBC Proms 2019 : Prom 03 : CBeebies: A Musical Trip to the Moon [sound recording] (2019) — Compositore — 1 copia
BBC Proms 2021 : Prom 46 : Last Night of the Proms 2021 [sound recording] (2021) — Arranger — 1 copia
Best of British : 29 British gems arranged for the intermediate pianist (2012) — Compositore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Britten, Benjamin
- Nome legale
- Britten, Edward Benjamin
- Altri nomi
- Baron Britten of Aldeburgh
- Data di nascita
- 1913-11-22
- Data di morte
- 1976-12-04
- Luogo di sepoltura
- St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, UK
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, UK
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, UK - Istruzione
- Royal College of Music (BA|1933)
- Attività lavorative
- composer
conductor
pianist - Relazioni
- Pears, Peter (life partner)
Bridge, Frank (composition teacher)
Ireland, John (composition teacher)
Benjamin, Arthur (piano teacher) - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary ∙ Music ∙ 1957)
Peace Pledge Union - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Order of Merit (1965)
Order of the Companions of Honour (1953)
Life Peerage (1976)
Commander, Royal Order of the Polar Star (1962)
Hanseatic Goethe Prize (1961)
Royal Philharmonic Society's Gold Medal (1964) (mostra tutto 12)
Wihuri Sibelius Prize (1965)
Mahler Medal (1967)
Léonie Sonning Music Prize (1968)
Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (1974)
Ravel Prize (1974)
Grammy Awards (1963, 1977)
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- Opere
- 613
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- Utenti
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- Popolarità
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- Voto
- 4.2
- Recensioni
- 45
- ISBN
- 153
- Lingue
- 8
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