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| Genre/Form: | Journaux intimes |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Letters from a life. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1991-<2004> (OCoLC)649245850 |
| Named Person: | Benjamin Britten; Benjamin Britten; Benjamin Britten; Benjamin Britten; Benjamin Britten |
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Benjamin Britten; Donald Mitchell; Philip Reed; Mervyn Cooke; Britten-Pears Foundation. |
| ISBN: | 0520065204 9780520065208 0520242599 9780520242593 1843833824 9781843833826 1843835916 9781843835912 9781843837251 1843837250 |
| OCLC Number: | 22181055 |
| Notes: | Subtitle, v. 3-6: the selected letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976. Vol. 3-4 edited by Donald Mitchell, Philip Reed, and Mervyn Cooke; v. 5-6 edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke. Vols. 4-6 published: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell Press, in association with the Britten-Pears Foundation. |
| Description: | 6 v. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | v. 1. 1923-1939 -- v. 2. 1939-1945 -- v. 3. 1946-1951 -- v. 4. 1952-1957 -- v. 5. 1958-1965 -- v. 6. 1966-1976. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Donald Mitchell ; assistant editor, Philip Reed ; associate editors, Rosamund Strode, Kathleen Mitchell, Judy Young. |
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(T)he importance of both this volume, with extensive indexes, and the entire series of Britten Letters cannot be valued highly enough, and it is essential for any Britten enthusiast to have them in his and her library. Highly recommended. BMS News Britten could be alternately ice cold, stout-hearted, sly, courageously forthright and psychically tormented, but was always brilliantly creative, as these letters reveal. INTERNATIONAL PIANO (T)his is a gripping account of Britten's final years. (...) Reed and Cooke have honoured (Britten's) legacy brilliantly by amassing and annotating this material and giving us the best record of the composer's life. CLASSICAL MUSIC(A) superb edition of Britten's correspondence, now completed with a sixth 800-page volume covering the decade before his death in 1976 (...) the magnificent accompanying annotation and detailed apparatus make them richly revealing. SPECTATOR (M)ost engaging and informative. Led by Britten's musicologist acolyte Donald Mitchell and his successors, the Britten-Pears Foundation has spent the past 20 years combing an extensive legacy of documents. The aim has been to trace Britten's life and activities through his own words, free of the gossip and speculation that surrounded the composer in his lifetime and grew after his death. FINANCIAL TIMES As he (Britten) declines it becomes evident how much he is cherished himself, and by how many. BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE Read more...
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