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Benjamin Britten

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1990 - A Ceremony of Carols

1990 - The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (London Philharmon

1990 - The Complete Suites for Solo Cello

1990 - A Midsummer Night's Dream (London Symphony Orchestra & Choir

1990 - The Turn of the Screw (English Opera Group Orchestra feat. c

1989 - Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge / Les Illuminations /

1989 - Albert Herring, Op. 39 (The English Chamber Orchestra feat.

1989 - Music for Oboe & Strings

1989 - Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra / Symphon

1989 - Cello Symphony / Sinfonia da Requiem / Cantata misericordium

1989 - Barber: Cello Concerto / Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orc
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1989 - Les Illuminations / Bridge Variations / Simple Symphony (The

1989 - Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / Britten: Young Person's Guid

1989 - War Requiem, Op. 66

1988 - Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge / Tchaikovsky

1988 - The Three Cello Suites

1988 - Neil MacKie Sings Britten

1988 - A.M.D.G. / Hymn to St Cecilia / A Boy Was Born / A Shepherd'

1987 - Music for Voice and Piano

1986 - Britten: Four Sea Interludes / Passacaglia / Bridge: The Sea

1985 - War Requiem

1985 - Peter Grimes (Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, C
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1982 - Symphonic Suite Gloriana / Prelude and Dances from the Princ
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1981 - Our Hunting Fathers (Peter Pears, Helen Watts Acc. Benjamin

1973 - Peter und der Wolf (feat. conductor: Herbert Kegel, narrator

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Lowestoft, United Kingdom

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1913

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Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM, CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera Peter Grimes (1945), the War Requiem (1962) and the orchestral showpiece The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1945).
Born in Suffolk, the son of a dentist, Britten showed talent from an early age. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and privately with the composer Frank Bridge. Britten first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to international fame. Over the next 28 years, he wrote 14 more operas, establishing himself as one of the leading 20th-century composers in the genre. In addition to large-scale operas for Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden, he wrote "chamber operas" for small forces, suitable for performance in venues of modest size. Among the best known of these is The Turn of the Screw (1954). Recurring themes in the operas are the struggle of an outsider against a hostile society, and the corruption of innocence.
Britten's other works range from orchestral to choral, solo vocal, chamber and instrumental as well as film music. He took a great interest in writing music for children and amateur performers, including the opera Noye's Fludde, a Missa Brevis, and the song collection Friday Afternoons. He often composed with particular performers in mind. His most frequent and important muse was his personal and professional partner, the tenor Peter Pears; others included Janet Baker, Dennis Brain, Julian Bream, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Mstislav Rostropovich. Britten was a celebrated pianist and conductor, performing many of his own works in concert and on record. He also performed and recorded works by others, such as Bach's Brandenburg concertos, Mozart symphonies, and song cycles by Schubert and Schumann.
Together with Pears and the librettist and producer Eric Crozier, Britten founded the annual Aldeburgh Festival in 1948, and he was responsible for the creation of Snape Maltings concert hall in 1967. In his last year, he was the first composer to be given a life peerage.