Letters from a life : the selected letters and diaries of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976

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Letters from a life : the selected letters and diaries of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976

edited by Donald Mitchell ; assistant editor, Philip Reed ; associate editors, Rosamund Strode, Kathleen Mitchell, Judy Young

University of California Press, 1991-

  • : vols 1 and 2
  • v. 1
  • v. 2
  • v. 3

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Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, p. [1293]-1331) and indexes

Title on v. 3: Letters from a life : the selected letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976 / edited by Donald Mitchell, Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke ; co-ordinating editor, Jill Burrows

収録内容

  • v. 1. 1923-1939
  • v. 2. 1939-1945
  • v. 3. 1946-1951

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: vols 1 and 2 ISBN 9780520065208

内容説明

These remarkable letters, never before published, constitute a comprehensive biography told largely in Britten's own words. Volume 1 accompanies him through prep and English public school and then to London to the Royal College of Music, where the young composer is plunged into metropolitan life and makes influential new friends, among them Auden and Isherwood. This was a time of prodigious musical creativity, a growing awareness of his homosexuality, and the dawning of his political convictions. It was during this time that Britten met Peter Pears, the partner with whom his musical and personal relationship was to last a lifetime. This volume closes in May, 1939, when Britten and Pears depart for the United States. Volume 2 offers an overview of a crucial period in American and British history, politics, and culture. Britten's experience of exile, his return with Pears to England to face recriminations as a Conscientious Objector and prejudice as a brilliant gay artist, and the triumph of his first major opera, Peter Grimes, are all outlined in letters which are a fascinating mix of the public and private. These first two volumes of the Selected Letters and Diaries--a further two are in preparation--make a fundamental contribution to Britten studies and to twentieth-century cultural history.
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v. 3 ISBN 9780520242593

内容説明

This long-awaited third volume of composer Benjamin Britten's remarkable letters covers the years 1946-51. Fresh from the astonishing success of his great first opera, Peter Grimes, Britten was vital to the post-war rebuilding of the arts in Great Britain with his visionary work as a composer, conductor, and performer. With his partner, the celebrated tenor Peter Pears, he founded the Aldeburgh Festival, which eventually grew into the international festival that it is today, and the English Opera Group. He also toured widely in Europe and the United States as a pianist and conductor. During this time he wrote many of his best-known works, including the operas Billy Budd, Albert Herring, and The Rape of Lucretia. Britten's correspondents include literary figures such as Christopher Isherwood, Edith Sitwell, E. M. Forster (the librettist for Billy Budd), and Edward Sackville-West, as well as musical colleagues from around the world including Ernest Ansermet, Francis Poulenc, Aaron Copland, and Igor Stravinsky. This volume of selected letters represents one of the richest and most innovative periods of the composer's creative life. His daily concerns and the unique era in which he lived are vividly evoked by the comprehensive and scholarly annotations, which offer a wide range of detailed and fascinating information. Donald Mitchell contributes a superb introduction.

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