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Benjamin Britten - New Perspectives on His Life and Work (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,126
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Benjamin Britten - New Perspectives on His Life and Work (Hardcover): Lucy Walker

Benjamin Britten - New Perspectives on His Life and Work (Hardcover)

Lucy Walker; Contributions by Arne Muus, Brian Mcmahon, Claire Seymour, Colin Matthews, David Crilly, Frances Spalding, George Caird, Jane Brandon, Lucy Walker

Series: Aldeburgh Studies in Music

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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. Benjamin Britten: New Perspectives on his Life and Work reveals the extent to which Britten scholarship is reaching outside the confines of Anglo-American criticism. The volume engages with juvenilia and other orchestral works from the 1920s and examines a broad range of influences on Britten, including the works of Shostakovich and Verdi, the poetry of Ovid, and the cinema. Among his operatic works the dramatic qualities of Owen Wingrave arediscussed through a close study of Piper's libretto and we witness the genesis of a libretto written by Australian novelist Patrick White and submitted to Britten with the hope of a future collaboration. The volume uncovers the generally hostile reception Britten's operas received in Paris until around the 1990s. Britten's status as 'outsider' in both the USA and in his own country when he returned in 1942 is discussed: the possibility is that Britten wasbecoming nervous of the gathering US involvement in the war and the real chance he may be called up to serve in the US forces is also discussed here.

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Imprint: The Boydell Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Aldeburgh Studies in Music
Release date: November 2009
First published: 2009
Editors: Lucy Walker
Contributors: Arne Muus • Brian Mcmahon • Claire Seymour • Colin Matthews • David Crilly • Frances Spalding • George Caird • Jane Brandon • Lucy Walker
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 978-1-84383-516-5
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Music > Composers & musicians
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LSN: 1-84383-516-9
Barcode: 9781843835165

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