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Benjamin Britten - A Life For Music (Paperback)
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Benjamin Britten - A Life For Music (Paperback)
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Benjamin Britten was the greatest English composer of the twentieth
century and one of the outstanding musicians of his age. Born in
Lowestoft, Suffolk, in 1913, Britten was the youngest child of a
dentist father and amateur musician mother. After studying at the
Royal College of Music, he became a vital part of London's creative
and intellectual life during the 1930s, collaborating with W. H.
Auden and meeting his lifelong partner, the tenor Peter Pears. At
the outbreak of the Second World War, Britten and Pears were
already in America, earning a precarious living as freelance
musicians before re-crossing the Atlantic by ship in the perilous
days of 1942. But the east coast of England was where Britten, as
he himself said, belonged: this was where he returned to write his
most famous opera, Peter Grimes, and - with Pears and Eric Crozier
- to found the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948. In the years that
followed, his worldwide reputation grew steadily, helped by a busy
schedule of international tours and, for many, crowned by the
extraordinary success of his War Requiem. Meanwhile, his festival
went from strength to strength, its progress symbolised by the
opening of Snape Maltings Concert Hall in 1967. Britten was a mass
of paradoxes: a solitary, introspective thinker who came to
ebullient life in the company of young people, for whom he composed
some of his most memorable works; a man of the political left who
was on the friendliest terms with members of the royal family; a
composer inspired by some of the twentieth century's deepest
preoccupations who combined innovation with a profound
understanding of musical tradition. Devoted to his friends,
proteges and fellow musicians, he was, above all, someone who lived
for music. Neil Powell's book is the landmark biography for
Britten's centenary year: a subtle and moving portrait of a
brilliant, complex and ultimately loveable man.
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