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