Download e-book for kindle: The Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Britten (Cambridge by Mervyn Cooke

By Mervyn Cooke

ISBN-10: 0521574765

ISBN-13: 9780521574761

ISBN-10: 1139002228

ISBN-13: 9781139002226

The Cambridge significant other to Benjamin Britten is a accomplished consultant to the composer's paintings, aimed either on the non-specialist and tune pupil. It sheds mild on either the composer's stylistic and private improvement, providing new interpretations of his operatic works and discussing his attribute operating equipment. themes handled the following intimately for the 1st time contain Britten's paintings within the cinema within the Thirties, his lifelong pacifism and his robust curiosity within the song of the a ways East; different chapters contain reassessments of his courting with W. H. Auden and his angle in the direction of early life, entire analyses of significant works and a concise background of the Aldeburgh pageant. A individual crew of individuals contain a few who labored with the composer in the course of his lifetime, in addition to best representatives of the more youthful new release of Britten students on either side of the Atlantic.

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