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Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39 - Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten (Paperback, Main)
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Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39 - Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten (Paperback, Main)
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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.
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