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Britten / David Matthews.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML410.B853 M386 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matthews, David.
- Series:
- Life & times (London, England)
- Life and times
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
- Britten, Benjamin.
- Composers--Great Britain--Biography.
- Composers.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 182 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Haus, 2003.
- Summary:
- Benjamin Britten was the most prolific and celebrated English composer of the 20th century. He shot to international fame with his operas, for which he formed the English Opera Group in 1947. With unprecedented access to the Britten archive and estate, David Matthews sheds new light on the work of this much-admired composer. As a colleague and friend of Britten, he has produced a uniquely personal, sensitive, and authoritative account. David Matthews spent three years as an assistant to Benjamin Britten in the late 1960s. He is a composer, academic, and author of Michael Tippett: An Introduction.
- Contents:
- A Boy Was Born 1
- Go Play, Boy, Play 17
- Coldest Love Will Warm to Action 29
- America Is What You Choose to Make It 51
- What Harbour Shelters Peace? 68
- Our Firm-United Souls 83
- On the Infinite Sea 100
- Sleep's Healing Power 119
- In Peace I Have Found My Image 129
- Death Will Give Me Freedom 145.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 190434139X
- 1904341217
- OCLC:
- 57699002
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