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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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    compositions includes all the published works by English composer Benjamin Britten with opus number. Paul Bunyan, Op. 17: Operetta in two acts, 114'....
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    Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten (sample) is a short canon in A minor, written in 1977 by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, for string orchestra and...
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    Peter Pears (category Benjamin Britten)
    English tenor. His career was closely associated with the composer Benjamin Britten, his personal and professional partner for nearly forty years. Pears'...
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  • Benjamin Britten Academy (formerly The Benjamin Britten High School) is a coeducational secondary school located in the northern outskirts of Lowestoft...
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    David Hemmings (category Benjamin Britten)
    composer Benjamin Britten, who formed a close friendship with him at this time. Most notably Hemmings created the role of Miles in Britten's chamber opera...
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  • Look up Britten or britten in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. Britten or Benjamin...
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    Segovia, Peter Pears, Benjamin Britten and Francis Poulenc. The Hall maintained a particularly fruitful relationship with Benjamin Britten, both as composer...
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    Scallop (2003) celebrates the composer Benjamin Britten and stands on the beach outside Aldeburgh, Suffolk, near Britten's homes and not far from Hambling's...
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  • 15–16), producer (tracks 1–12, 14–16), performer (tracks 1–12, 14–16) Benjamin Britten – composer (tracks 13–14), conductor (track 13) Jacob Moreno – engineer...
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  • compositions from Alexandre Desplat and supplemented existing music by Benjamin Britten, as well as classical songs from Hank Williams, Leonard Bernstein,...
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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 Benjamin Britten was an international train service linking Amsterdam with London. The train service was named after English composer Benjamin Britten...
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    The 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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  • a 1962 choral and orchestral arrangement of God Save the Queen by Benjamin Britten. The arrangement was written for the Leeds Festival. It has been described...
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    small television roles, he portrayed Benjamin Britten as a schoolboy in the docudrama by Tony Britten, Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict (2013), also featuring...
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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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  • French Foreign Legion. Parts of the soundtrack of the movie are from Benjamin Britten's 1951 opera based on the novella. Adjudant-Chef Galoup of the French...
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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 Crabbe's...
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    Billy Budd (opera) (category Operas by Benjamin Britten)
    Billy Budd, Op. 50, is an opera by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by the novelist E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier, based on the short novel Billy Budd by...
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    Lowestoft (redirect from The Britten Centre)
    several primary and high schools, including four 11–16 high schools: Benjamin Britten Academy, Ormiston Denes Academy, East Point Academy and Pakefield High...
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    W. H. Auden (category Benjamin Britten)
    Fathers (1936, song cycle written for Benjamin Britten) Hymn to St Cecilia (1942, choral piece composed by Benjamin Britten) An Evening of Elizabethan Verse...
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  • singer Hedli Anderson. Both versions were set to music by the composer Benjamin Britten. The second version was first published in 1938 and was titled "Funeral...
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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 was...
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    Frank Bridge (category Benjamin Britten)
    receiving the patronage of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. According to Benjamin Britten, Bridge had strong pacifist convictions, and he was deeply disturbed...
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    influence on his successors Giacomo Puccini, Richard Strauss, and Benjamin Britten. After Verdi, the sentimental "realistic" melodrama of verismo appeared...
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    Imogen Holst (category Benjamin Britten)
    of music education and activity. In the early 1950s Holst became Benjamin Britten's musical assistant, moved to Aldeburgh, and began helping with the...
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    he lived. Benjamin Zander took lessons with Benjamin Britten and became a student of theory of Britten's amanuensis and assistant, Imogen Holst.[citation...
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    Noye's Fludde (category Operas by Benjamin Britten)
    Noye's Fludde is a one-act opera by the British composer Benjamin Britten, intended primarily for amateur performers, particularly children. First performed...
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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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