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    Saint Nicolas, Op. 42, is a cantata with music by Benjamin Britten on a text by Eric Crozier, completed in 1948. It covers the legendary life of Saint...
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    creatures. In 1948, Benjamin Britten completed a cantata, Saint Nicolas on a text by Eric Crozier which covers the saint's legendary life in a dramatic...
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    Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central...
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  • name of Drake's Island, Plymouth Sound, England Saint Nicolas, a 1948 cantata with music by Benjamin Britten and text by Eric Crozier St. Nicholas Centre...
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    compositions includes all the published works by English composer Benjamin Britten with opus number. Paul Bunyan, Op. 17: Operetta in two acts, 114'. Libretto...
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    War Requiem, Op. 66, is a choral and orchestral composition by Benjamin Britten, composed mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962. The War Requiem...
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    Tunes, Book 1, George Dyson Saint Nicolas by Benjamin Britten (1948 cantata) – the final movement IX, The Death of Nicolas Joy Beyond the Sorrow: Indelible...
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  • Britten Pears Arts is a large music education organisation based in Suffolk, England. It aims to continue the legacy of composer Benjamin Britten and...
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    the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the 1898 novella The Turn of...
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and set to a libretto adapted by the composer and Peter Pears from William...
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    Aldeburgh Festival (category Benjamin Britten)
    Saint Peter and Saint Paul. It featured a performance of Albert Herring by the English Opera Group; Britten's newly written Saint Nicolas; and performances...
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  • Illuminations (The Illuminations), Op. 18, is a song cycle by Benjamin Britten, first performed in 1940. It is composed for soprano or tenor soloist and...
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  • Eric Crozier (category Benjamin Britten)
    His first opera libretto for Britten was Albert Herring (1947). He wrote the librettos for the cantata Saint Nicolas (1948), the children's opera Let's...
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  • Britten Sinfonia is a chamber orchestra ensemble based in Cambridge, UK. It was created in 1992, following an initiative from Eastern Arts and a number...
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  • Benjamin Britten's Sinfonietta was composed in 1932, at the age of 18, while he was a student at the Royal College of Music. It was first performed in...
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    Peter Pears (category Benjamin Britten)
    modern times. With Britten, Pears was a co-founder of the Aldeburgh Festival in 1947 and the Britten-Pears School in 1972. After Britten died in 1976, Pears...
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    Peter Grimes (category Operas by Benjamin Britten)
    Peter Grimes, Op. 33, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Montagu Slater based on the section "Peter Grimes", in George...
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  • are assigned this number include: Arnold – Homage to the Queen BrittenSaint Nicolas Bruch – Romance in A minor Busoni – Berceuse élégiaque Chopin –...
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    Noye's Fludde (category Operas by Benjamin Britten)
    instead, Britten and Crozier wrote the cantata Saint Nicolas (1948), the first of several works in which Britten combined skilled performers with amateurs...
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    Louis-Nicolas d'Avout (French pronunciation: [lwi nikɔla davu]; 10 May 1770 – 1 June 1823), better known as Davout, 1st Prince of Eckmühl, 1st Duke of...
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  • Canticles constitute a series of five musical works by composer Benjamin Britten. The pieces were written at various points in his career, with three of...
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  • The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (category Compositions by Benjamin Britten)
    Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34, is a 1945 musical composition by Benjamin Britten with a subtitle Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell. It was based...
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  • Nocturne, Op. 60, is a song cycle by Benjamin Britten, written for tenor, seven obbligato instruments and strings. The seven instruments are flute, cor...
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    Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27 is a choral piece by Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), a setting of a poem by W. H. Auden written between 1940 and 1942. Auden's...
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    Scallop (2003) (category Benjamin Britten)
    Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is a tribute to composer Benjamin Britten. Hambling commissioned local business J. T. Pegg & Sons LTD to create the...
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  • Symphony, Op. 68, was written in 1963 by the British composer Benjamin Britten. He dedicated the work to Mstislav Rostropovich, who gave the work its...
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    Albert Herring (category Operas by Benjamin Britten)
    Albert Herring, Op. 39, is a chamber opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten. Composed in the winter of 1946 and the spring of 1947, this comic opera...
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    The Rape of Lucretia (category Operas by Benjamin Britten)
    The Rape of Lucretia (Op. 37) is an opera in two acts by Benjamin Britten, written for Kathleen Ferrier, who performed the title role. Ronald Duncan based...
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    music drama by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by William Plomer. Based on the Biblical story of the Prodigal Son, this was Britten's third "parable for church...
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