Britten, Benjamin 1913-1976
Overview
| Works: | 11,489 works in 31,635 publications in 13 languages and 280,362 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Musical settings Operas Chamber operas Biography Opera adaptations Criticism, interpretation, etc Live sound recordings Requiems Scores Vocal scores |
| Roles: | Author, Conductor, Composer, Instrumentalist, Performer, Arranger, Librettist, Editor, Compiler, Adapter, Musician, Singer, Other, Creator, Contributor, Author of introduction, Director, Dedicatee, msd, Bibliographic antecedent, Artist, Restager , Interviewee, Printer, Speaker, Recipient, Honoree |
| Classifications: | ML410.B853, 782.1 |
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Most widely held works about
Benjamin Britten
- Britten's musical language by Philip Ernst Rupprecht( )
- Benjamin Britten : the spiritual dimension by Graham Elliott( )
- The music of Benjamin Britten by Peter Evans( Book )
- Benjamin Britten : a biography by Humphrey Carpenter( Book )
- The lives and times of the great composers by Michael Steen( Book )
- Benjamin Britten : a bio-bibliography by Stewart R Craggs( )
- February house by Sherill Tippins( Book )
- Benjamin Britten : his life and operas by Eric Walter White( Book )
- Britten and the Far East : Asian influences in the music of Benjamin Britten by Mervyn Cooke( )
- Britten by Michael Kennedy( Book )
- Britten by Imogen Holst( Book )
- The Cambridge companion to Benjamin Britten by Mervyn Cooke( Book )
- The music of Britten and Tippett : studies in themes and techniques by Arnold Whittall( Book )
- Britten by Christopher Headington( Book )
- Rethinking Britten by Philip Ernst Rupprecht( )
- The Britten companion by Christopher Palmer( Book )
- Benjamin Britten, his life and operas by Eric Walter White( Book )
- Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten by Daniel Albright( )
- Britten and Auden in the thirties : the year 1936 by Donald Mitchell( Book )
- Benjamin Britten : a life for music by Neil Powell( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Benjamin Britten
War requiem by
Benjamin Britten(
)
277 editions published between 1963 and 2016 in 9 languages and held by 4,790 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Public awareness of Benjamin Britten's person and works advanced dramatically -- even explosively -- twice during his lifetime. The first time was in 1945, when his opera Peter Grimes was produced for the postwar reopening of Sadler's Wells Theatre in London. The second time followed the premier at Coventry and the subsequent series of performances all across Europe and North America of the War Requiem. Except to those provincials who thought that milky pastoral was the only idiom appropriate for an Englishman and who also found the young Britten too clever by half, the triumph of Peter Grimes marked not just the confirmation of a prodigious talent; it represented a moment of hope that, for the first time since the death of Henry Purcell in 1695, England had produced a composer of international stature. The impact the War Requiem made 17 years later was wider and deeper by far. Britten, approaching 50, had become an artist whose every new utterance was awaited with the most lively interest and the highest expectations. The War Requiem, moreover, was tied to a pair of events that were heavily freighted with history and emotion: the destruction of Coventry Cathedral in an air raid during the night of November 14-15, 1940, and its reconsecration more than 21 years later. Its first performance was planned as an international event with respect both to participants and audience. Most importantly, the War Requiem was a weighty and poignant statement on the subject of piercingly urgent concern to much of humankind. In the War Requiem, Britten drew on forces larger and more complex than in any previous work of his. The basic division of the performers is into two groups, reflecting the dual source of the words; the libretto stands in a relation of text (the Latin Missa pro defunctis) and commentary (the nine Owen poems). The Latin text is essentially the province of the large mixed chorus, but from this there is spillover in two opposite directions: the solo soprano represents a heightening of the choral singing at its most emotional, while the boys' choir represents liturgy at its most distanced. The mixed chorus and solo soprano are accompanied by the full orchestra; the boys' choir, whose sound should be distant, is supported by an organ. All this constitutes one group. The other group consists of the tenor and baritone soloists, whose province is the series of Owen songs; they are accompanied by the chamber orchestra. - Program notes / Michael Steinberg
277 editions published between 1963 and 2016 in 9 languages and held by 4,790 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Public awareness of Benjamin Britten's person and works advanced dramatically -- even explosively -- twice during his lifetime. The first time was in 1945, when his opera Peter Grimes was produced for the postwar reopening of Sadler's Wells Theatre in London. The second time followed the premier at Coventry and the subsequent series of performances all across Europe and North America of the War Requiem. Except to those provincials who thought that milky pastoral was the only idiom appropriate for an Englishman and who also found the young Britten too clever by half, the triumph of Peter Grimes marked not just the confirmation of a prodigious talent; it represented a moment of hope that, for the first time since the death of Henry Purcell in 1695, England had produced a composer of international stature. The impact the War Requiem made 17 years later was wider and deeper by far. Britten, approaching 50, had become an artist whose every new utterance was awaited with the most lively interest and the highest expectations. The War Requiem, moreover, was tied to a pair of events that were heavily freighted with history and emotion: the destruction of Coventry Cathedral in an air raid during the night of November 14-15, 1940, and its reconsecration more than 21 years later. Its first performance was planned as an international event with respect both to participants and audience. Most importantly, the War Requiem was a weighty and poignant statement on the subject of piercingly urgent concern to much of humankind. In the War Requiem, Britten drew on forces larger and more complex than in any previous work of his. The basic division of the performers is into two groups, reflecting the dual source of the words; the libretto stands in a relation of text (the Latin Missa pro defunctis) and commentary (the nine Owen poems). The Latin text is essentially the province of the large mixed chorus, but from this there is spillover in two opposite directions: the solo soprano represents a heightening of the choral singing at its most emotional, while the boys' choir represents liturgy at its most distanced. The mixed chorus and solo soprano are accompanied by the full orchestra; the boys' choir, whose sound should be distant, is supported by an organ. All this constitutes one group. The other group consists of the tenor and baritone soloists, whose province is the series of Owen songs; they are accompanied by the chamber orchestra. - Program notes / Michael Steinberg
Peter Grimes by
Benjamin Britten(
)
298 editions published between 1945 and 2014 in 9 languages and held by 4,692 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Set in a small fishing community on the east coast of England, the story of conflict between an individual and a society that sees him as an outsider
298 editions published between 1945 and 2014 in 9 languages and held by 4,692 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Set in a small fishing community on the east coast of England, the story of conflict between an individual and a society that sees him as an outsider
The turn of the screw by
Benjamin Britten(
)
214 editions published between 1954 and 2016 in 7 languages and held by 3,366 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Recorded Mar. 1981 in London
214 editions published between 1954 and 2016 in 7 languages and held by 3,366 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Recorded Mar. 1981 in London
Albert Herring by
Benjamin Britten(
)
122 editions published between 1964 and 2016 in 4 languages and held by 2,255 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Recorded Aug. 11-15, 1996, All Saint's Church, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
122 editions published between 1964 and 2016 in 4 languages and held by 2,255 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Recorded Aug. 11-15, 1996, All Saint's Church, Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Peter Grimes : an opera in three acts and a prologue derived from the poem of George Crabbe : op. 33 by
Benjamin Britten(
)
151 editions published between 1941 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 2,046 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
151 editions published between 1941 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 2,046 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A midsummer night's dream by
Benjamin Britten(
)
28 editions published between 1960 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 1,718 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
One of opera's most original Shakespeare adaptations comes to live in this broadcast with James Conlon conducting a youthful ensemble cast of rising stars, led by Iestyn Davies and Kathleen Kim as Oberon and Tytania, King and Queen of the fairies. The quartet of lovers is portrayed by Elizabeth DeShong (Hermia), Joseph Kaiser (Lysander), Erin Wall (Helena), and Michael Todd Simpson (Demetrius). Matthew Rose sings the donkey-headed Bottom and Riley Costello is the mischievous Puck
28 editions published between 1960 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 1,718 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
One of opera's most original Shakespeare adaptations comes to live in this broadcast with James Conlon conducting a youthful ensemble cast of rising stars, led by Iestyn Davies and Kathleen Kim as Oberon and Tytania, King and Queen of the fairies. The quartet of lovers is portrayed by Elizabeth DeShong (Hermia), Joseph Kaiser (Lysander), Erin Wall (Helena), and Michael Todd Simpson (Demetrius). Matthew Rose sings the donkey-headed Bottom and Riley Costello is the mischievous Puck
Billy Budd by
Benjamin Britten(
)
98 editions published between 1960 and 2013 in 6 languages and held by 1,589 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A moving performance ..."--Gramophone
98 editions published between 1960 and 2013 in 6 languages and held by 1,589 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A moving performance ..."--Gramophone
War requiem : op. 66 by
Benjamin Britten(
)
106 editions published between 1362 and 2014 in 7 languages and held by 1,554 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
106 editions published between 1362 and 2014 in 7 languages and held by 1,554 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Young person's guide to the orchestra ; Simple symphony ; Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge by
Benjamin Britten(
Recording
)
69 editions published between 1954 and 2003 in 5 languages and held by 1,492 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
69 editions published between 1954 and 2003 in 5 languages and held by 1,492 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Death in Venice by
Benjamin Britten(
Recording
)
85 editions published between 1974 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 1,437 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Thomas Mann's celebrated tale of unrequited love and death is given a new perspective in Benjamin Britten's final opera, first performed just a year and a half before this Met broadcast. The composer's long-time companion, tenor Peter Pears, reprises his world-premiere portrayal of Gustav von Aschenbach, the elderly and solitary novelist at the center of the story, who tragically falls in love with the beautiful youth Tadzio (played by a dancer). Pears is joined by two other veterans of the opera's world premiere--John Shirley-Quirk, who plays the seven characters that propel Aschenbach to his destiny, and conductor Steuart Bedford
85 editions published between 1974 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 1,437 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Thomas Mann's celebrated tale of unrequited love and death is given a new perspective in Benjamin Britten's final opera, first performed just a year and a half before this Met broadcast. The composer's long-time companion, tenor Peter Pears, reprises his world-premiere portrayal of Gustav von Aschenbach, the elderly and solitary novelist at the center of the story, who tragically falls in love with the beautiful youth Tadzio (played by a dancer). Pears is joined by two other veterans of the opera's world premiere--John Shirley-Quirk, who plays the seven characters that propel Aschenbach to his destiny, and conductor Steuart Bedford
Violin concerto by
Benjamin Britten(
)
35 editions published between 1978 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,426 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
35 editions published between 1978 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 1,426 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A ceremony of carols by
Benjamin Britten(
)
160 editions published between 1950 and 2014 in 6 languages and held by 1,247 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A Ceremony of Carols for boys' choir and harp, op. 28. Text: various poets / A Boy was Born: Choral variations for chorus a cappella, op. 3. Text: var.poets / Rejoice in the Lamb: Cantata for soloists, chorus & organ, op. 30. Text: C. Smart
160 editions published between 1950 and 2014 in 6 languages and held by 1,247 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A Ceremony of Carols for boys' choir and harp, op. 28. Text: various poets / A Boy was Born: Choral variations for chorus a cappella, op. 3. Text: var.poets / Rejoice in the Lamb: Cantata for soloists, chorus & organ, op. 30. Text: C. Smart
The wonderful world of music by
Benjamin Britten(
Book
)
29 editions published between 1958 and 1979 in English and Serbian and held by 1,225 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A discussion of music, its terminology, history, theory, styles, appreciation, and means used to produce it
29 editions published between 1958 and 1979 in English and Serbian and held by 1,225 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A discussion of music, its terminology, history, theory, styles, appreciation, and means used to produce it
A ceremony of carols : op. 28 by
Benjamin Britten(
)
167 editions published between 1934 and 2005 in 7 languages and held by 1,217 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
167 editions published between 1934 and 2005 in 7 languages and held by 1,217 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A ceremony of carols ; Hymn to St. Cecilia ; Rejoice in the lamb ; Te deum ; Jubilate deo ; Missa brevis by
Benjamin Britten(
)
31 editions published between 1972 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 1,189 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
31 editions published between 1972 and 2007 in 3 languages and held by 1,189 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
War requiem : op. 66 by
Benjamin Britten(
Recording
)
96 editions published between 1963 and 2013 in 6 languages and held by 1,174 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The horrors of war and pacifist sentiments are expressed in Benjamin Britten's War Requiem
96 editions published between 1963 and 2013 in 6 languages and held by 1,174 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The horrors of war and pacifist sentiments are expressed in Benjamin Britten's War Requiem
The young person's guide to the orchestra : variations and fugue on a theme of Purcell : op. 34 by
Benjamin Britten(
)
69 editions published between 1595 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 1,118 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
69 editions published between 1595 and 2010 in 5 languages and held by 1,118 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The turn of the screw : op. 54, an opera in a prologue and two acts by
Benjamin Britten(
)
91 editions published between 1954 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 1,087 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
91 editions published between 1954 and 2015 in 5 languages and held by 1,087 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Serenade : for tenor solo, horn, and strings, op. 31 by
Benjamin Britten(
)
90 editions published between 1939 and 2005 in 4 languages and held by 1,074 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
90 editions published between 1939 and 2005 in 4 languages and held by 1,074 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Curlew River by
Benjamin Britten(
Recording
)
74 editions published between 1964 and 2014 in 6 languages and held by 1,040 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Curlew River: A Church Parable in One Act, op. 71. Text: William Plomer
74 editions published between 1964 and 2014 in 6 languages and held by 1,040 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Curlew River: A Church Parable in One Act, op. 71. Text: William Plomer
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Related Identities
- Pears, Peter 1910-1986 Other Singer Translator Performer Librettist Vocalist Author Editor Instrumentalist Narrator
- English Chamber Orchestra Other Performer Instrumentalist Musician
- London Symphony Orchestra Other Performer Musician Conductor Instrumentalist
- Crozier, Eric Other Librettist Lyricist Bibliographic antecedent Author Contributor Creator Editor Composer
- Bedford, Steuart Other Arranger Performer Conductor Editor Instrumentalist
- Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh) 1907-1973 Other Bibliographic antecedent Librettist Lyricist Author
- Shirley-Quirk, John Other Singer Performer Musician Vocalist
- Piper, Myfanwy Other Librettist Adapter Author Contributor Creator
- Rostropovich, Mstislav 1927-2007 Other Arranger Performer Conductor Author Editor Instrumentalist
- London Symphony Chorus Other Singer Performer Musician
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B. Britten
Baron Britten of Aldeburgh
Bendžamin Britn
Bendžamins Britens angļu komponists, diriģents un pianists
Beniaminus Britten
Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten angol zeneszerző, karmester, zongorista
Benjamin Britten Brits dirigent (1913-1976)
Benjamin Britten brittiläinen säveltäjä ja pianisti
Benjamin Britten brytyjski kompozytor i pianista
Benjamin Britten compositeur, chef d'orchestre, altiste et pianiste britannique
Benjamin Britten compositor, director de orquesa y pianista británico
Benjamin Britten compositore, direttore d'orchestra e pianista britannico
Benjamin Britten en änglische Komponist
Benjamin Britten englischer Komponist
Benjamin Britten English composer, conductor, and pianist
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בנג'מין בריטן
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בריטן, בנג'מין 1913-1976
بنجامين بريتن
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벤저민 브리튼
브리튼, 벤자민 1913-1976
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Latin (172)
German (64)
Multiple languages (23)
French (9)
Miscellaneous languages (6)
Dutch (4)
Spanish (3)
Russian (2)
English, Middle (2)
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Chinese (1)
Italian (1)
Latin (172)
German (64)
Multiple languages (23)
French (9)
Miscellaneous languages (6)
Dutch (4)
Spanish (3)
Russian (2)
English, Middle (2)
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Chinese (1)
Italian (1)