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Author: Vicki P Stroeher
Publisher: Composers in Context
Published: 2022-04-21
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 1108496695
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A thematically organised overview of the musical, social and cultural contexts for the multi-faceted career of this pivotal British composer.
Author: Neil Powell
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-08-06
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 0805097740
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This centenary biography looks at the music, the life, and the legacy of the greatest British composer of the twentieth century, and his life partner, tenor Peter Pears.
Author: Paul Kildea
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 2014-02-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781846142338
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer - now in paperback Benjamin Britten was Britain's greatest twentieth-century composer, who broke decisively with figures such as Elgar and Vaughan Williams and recreated English music in a fresh, modern, European form. Paul Kildea's biography has been acclaimed as the definitive account of Britten's extraordinary life, exploring his deeply held and controversial pacifism; his complex forty-year relationship with Peter Pears; and his creation of an artistic community in Aldeburgh. Above all, however, this book helps us understand the relationship of Britten's music to his life, and takes us as far into its unique alchemy as we are ever likely to go. 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, and lives in Berlin. 'Must now rank as the standard work' Financial Times 'Indispensable ... This is a masterly, highly readable account and the most comprehensive to date of the life and work of one of the 20th century's great musical figures' Barry Millington, Evening Standard ' A] wise, cautious, challenging book ... Kildea's verbal explorations of the music are done with level-headed sensitivity leavened by a quirky lightness of touch' Alexandra Harris, New Statesman
Author: Lucy Walker
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1843835169
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Michael Oliver
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 2008-04-23
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780714847719
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A portrait of the life and work of Benjamin Britten.
Author: Benjamin Britten
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780198167143
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Benjamin Britten was a most reluctant public speaker. Yet his contributions were without doubt a major factor in the transformation during his lifetime of the structure of the art-music industry. This book, by bringing together all his published articles, unpublished speeches, drafts, and transcriptions of numerous radio interviews, explores the paradox of a reluctant yet influential cultural commentator, artist, and humanist. Whether talking about his own music, about the role of the artist in society, about music criticism, or wading into a debate on Soviet ideology at the height of the cold war, Britten always gave a performance which reinforced the notion of a private man who nonetheless saw the importance of public disclosure.
Author: Claire Seymour
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781843833147
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Analysis of Britten's operatic works reveals opera as the natural medium through which he explored his private concerns.
Author: John Bridcut
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2011-04-21
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 0571260926
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Britten's Children confronts the edgy subject of the composer's obsessional yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. One of the hallmarks of Benjamin Britten's music is his use of boys' voices, and John Bridcut uses this to create a fresh prism through which to view the composer's life. Interweaving discussion of the music he wrote for and about children with interviews with the boys whom Britten befriended, Bridcut explores the influence of these unique friendships - notably with the late David Hemmings - and how they helped Britten maintain links with his own happy childhood. In a remarkable part of the book Bridcut tells for the first time the full story of Britten's love affair in the 1930s with the 18-year-old German Wulff Scherchen, son of the conductor Hermann Scherchen. As Paul Hoggart of The Times commented, 'this type of love belonged to an emotional landscape that has vanished for ever, and we are the poorer for it'. Since making the film, the author has extended his research to include friendships Britten had with children which have not previously been documented. The documentary Britten's Children won the Royal Philharmonic Society's 2005 Award for Creative Communication: 'this serious and beautiful film explored one aspect of a composer's life in great depth. Avoiding the temptation of sensationalism, Britten's Children was imaginatively researched and both touching and revelatory'.
Author: John Evans
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2010-10-21
Total Pages: 602
ISBN-13: 0571274641
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Best remembered for his operas and his War Requiem, Benjamin Britten's radical politics and his sexuality have also ensured that he remains a controversial public figure. Journeying Boy is a selection of his diaries that offer the reader an unseen insight into this complex man. Encompassing the years 1928-1938, they explore some key periods of Britten's life - his early compositions, his education first under composer Frank Bridge and then at the Royal College of Music, an unhappy but productive period studying under John Ireland and Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his reluctant and often painful process of parting from the warm, safe environment of his family home and his beloved mother. The diaries cast light on an often misrepresented musician whose technique, originality and musical prowess have entranced audiences for generations and who continues to inspire composers and musicians around the world.
Author: Peter John Hodgson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780815317951
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
