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	Benjamin Britten - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH (November 22, 1913 – December 4, 1976) was a British composer, conductor, and pianist.
		Britten was born in Lowestoft in Suffolk, the son of a dentist and a talented amateur musician.
		Britten was made a life peer on 2 July 1976 as Baron Britten, of Aldeburgh in the County of Suffolk.
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	Benjamin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The tribe of Benjamin at the Exodus was the smallest aside from Manasseh, which was split off from Joseph (Numbers 1:34-1:37; Psalms 68:27).
		The tribe of Benjamin was famous for its archers (1 Sam.
		It is called by Jeremiah (20:2) "the high gate of Benjamin"; also "the gate of the children of the people" (17:19).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benjamin (491 words)

	Benjamin Britten - MSN Encarta
		Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), British composer, whose operas are among the finest English-language operas of the 20th century.
		From 1939 to 1942 Britten lived in the United States and produced a violin concerto (1939), the Sinfonia da Requiem (1941), and his first opera, Paul Bunyan (1941), which drew on the legends of the North American folk hero of the lumber camps.
		Britten termed some of his later works chamber operas, because they require an orchestra of only 12 pieces.
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	Britten Snapshot - brittenpears.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Benjamin Britten was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, on 22 November 1913.
		The importance of Britten and Pears in post-War British cultural life was enhanced by their involvement in the founding of the English Opera Group in 1946 and the Aldeburgh Festival two years later.
		Britten’s career as a composer was matched by his outstanding ability as a performer: he was a refined accompanist, especially in his partnership with Pears, and a fluent and authoritative conductor – his interpretations of Mozart were particularly highly esteemed.
	www.brittenpears.org /?page=britten (465 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Britten, Benjamin, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BRITTEN, BENJAMIN, BARON BRITTEN OF ALDEBURGH [Britten, Benjamin, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh] 1913-76, English composer.
		Britten is considered the most significant British composer since Purcell.
		Britten's great War Requiem (1962), based on the bitter war poems of Wilfred Owen, was sung at the dedication in England of the reconstructed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed during World War II.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/britten.asp (309 words)

	Colorado Britten Society-Biography
		Kennedy believes Britten to be a "key figure in the growth of British music culture in the second half of the twentieth century, and his effect on everything from opera to the revitalization of music education is hard to overestimate".
		Britten was the one Western composer with whom Shostakovich felt a genuine rapport and kinship.
		Benjamin Britten's desire for a festival rooted in English village life and the work of amateurs, yet capable of attracting performers of high international acclaim, led to the establishment of the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948.
	coloradobrittensociety.homestead.com /cbsbbio.html (813 words)

	Benjamin Britten
		Britten did not write church music because he had services to fill; nor did he write symphonies because it was a standard form that required attention, nor piano music just because he played the piano.
		Britten and Pears were returning to England from America in the early spring of 1943, aborting what they thought might be a permanent move from Britain's "provincialism and lack of vitality" to a land they perceived as holding "infinite promise." But, on a visit to California, the critical turning point in Britten's life came.
		Britten never quite let go of his childhood, and one of its manifestations was a children's sidewalk game, which he often played while on one of his frequent walks.
	www.classicstoday.com /features/f1_0701.asp (3381 words)

	Benjamin Britten
		Benjamin Britten was born in Lowestoft, England, a fishing port and seaside resort about 100 miles northeast of London.
		Britten was an outstanding student at the Royal college of Music; he won the Earnest Farrar Prize for composition and, as a pianist, was awarded the title of Associate of the Royal College of Music.
		Britten stated that he tried to model himself on Stravinsky, whom he regarded as a composer who had freed himself from the tyranny of the purely personal.
	www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/appendix/Composers/B/BenjaminBritten.html (809 words)

	Benjamin Britten: Ripoe for Reassesment? Roy Brewer : MusicWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Britten was never a "modern" in the sense that Schoenberg and Stravinsky were so regarded, nor was he interested in the musical "isms" that invaded the post war European scene.
		Britten's acute sensitivity to language uncovers new dimensions, even in the folk song accompaniments, and his orchestration in works such as the Serenade and Our Hunting Fathers illustrate, in various ways, how Britten's awareness of words, and even syllables, allows the verse to find its own space within the music.
		Britten did not write a great deal that could be called religious in an orthodox sense, though humanistic reverence is plainly present in such choral works as A Boy was Born, A Ceremony of Carols, Rejoice in the Lamb, the Missa Brevis.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2001/Sept01/Britten_Brewer.htm (1951 words)

	Benjamin Britten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Benjamin Britten was born in Lowestoft, England, on November 22, 1913 - St.
		Britten began composing at the age of five and continued throughout his childhood.
		As a composer Britten was an important British musical leader in the last half of the 20th century.
	www.uky.edu /~deen/Philharmonic/Britten/britten.html (239 words)

	BookRags: Benjamin Britten Summary
		Britten's performance skills were impressive, but even more so were the amount and variety of music he composed.
		Britten's strengths are his masterful handling of choral sonorities, alone or in conjunction with instruments, his imaginative treatment of the word-music relationship, his sharp sense for the immediate theatrical effect, and his unusual interest and skill in writing music for children.
		Britten's example stimulated English composition, particularly in the operatic field, as it had not been stirred for ages.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/benjamin-britten (692 words)

	Britten Biographical Information
		When he was eleven, Britten was discovered by Frank Bridge, a composer who had recently become interested in experimental styles and the work of Bartók and Schoenberg.
		He did not find the RCM to be very helpful; in his later years Britten remarked that he "did not learn much." This was partially because the director was Sir Hugh Allen, an associate of Ralph Vaughan Williams, who was a professor there.
		Britten went to the United States out of discontent; he was also a conscientious objector.
	www.its.caltech.edu /~tan/Britten/britbio.html (1043 words)

	Britten, Benjamin (1913 - 1976)
		Britten's subsequent operas, including the Church Parables that draw inspiration from Japan and the remarkable operatic version of Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, Britten's last opera, constitute a very significant element in dramatic and operatic repertoire.
		Britten's Simple Symphony, for string orchestra, based on tunes written by the composer in childhood, is a useful element in string orchestra repertoire.
		Britten was strongly influenced in his music and in his life by the tenor Peter Pears.
	www.naxos.com /composer/britten.htm (457 words)

	Classical Net - Britten - Pas de Six from Prince of the Pagodas
		Benjamin Britten, an original and prolific composer throughout his sixty-three years, was born in 1913 in Lowestoft, East Anglia and died in 1976 in Aldeburgh.
		In addition to his operas, several of which have become fixtures in modern opera houses, Britten wrote a large body of orchestral music, chamber music, songs and song arrangements, secular and church cantatas and non-operatic music dramas, concertos for violin and piano, works for solo instruments, and incidental music for films, radio dramas, and plays.
		By this time, however, Britten had developed an aversion to the work, and his negative attitude contributed to the lack of performances after 1960.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/works/britten/pagoda1.html (983 words)

	Benjamin Britten News
		Benjamin Britten, a lifelong pacifist, was commissioned in 1958 to create a large scale choral work for the dedication of the rebuilt Coventry...
		Both the composer and the librettist for Benjamin Britten's 'War Requiem' were reacting to conflicts that are now long past, yet the choral masterwork still resonates in Indianapolis every generation or so.
		"Benjamin Britten, one of the best-known British composers of the twentieth century, began his prolific career in the 1930s by composing scores for documentaries produced by the General Post Office Film Unit.
	www.topix.net /who/benjamin-britten (654 words)

	Benjamin Britten
		Its central character, the first of many roles written for Pears, struck a new operatic tone: a social outcast, he is fiercely proud and independent, but also deeply insecure, providing opportunities for a lyrical flow that would be free but is not.
		Britten's gift for characterization was also displayed in the wide range of sharply defined subsidiary roles and in the orchestra's sea music.
		Britten was appointed a Companion of Honour in 1952, to the Order of Merit in 1965, and was awarded a life peerage in 1976.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/britten.html (522 words)

	Benjamin Britten
		When he was eleven, Britten was discovered by Frank Bridge, a composer who had recently become interested in experimental styles and the work of Bartók and Schoenberg.
		Benjamin Britten must be accepted as the most outstanding English composer working in the mid-20th century, winning a significant international reputation, while remaining thoroughly English in inspiration, a feat his immediate predecessors had been unable fully to achieve...
		Britten was born, by happy coincidence, on St. Cecilia's Day, at the family home in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/b/britten_benjamin.htm (738 words)

	Benjamin Britten Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Britten's music there are moments of overwhelming grandeur and anguish such as the passion of the suffering Peter Grimes and the outstanding and harrowing wail from Aschenbach 'I -- love you' at the end of Act one of 'Death in Venice'.
		Edward Benjamin Britten began to compose at the age of nine.
		The tenor Pears had a light voice of beautiful tone and it is the benchmark for the realisation of the works of Benjamin Britten, who obviously wrote for and was influenced by that voice that he loved so much.
	members.tripod.com /Barry_Stone/britten.htm (902 words)

	Biography: Benjamin Britten
		Britten and Pears worked on the scenario during their return voyage to England in March, 1942.
		During the early 40s, Britten produced a number of works, outstanding among them the Hymn to St. Cecilia, A Ceremony of Carols, Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Serenade (for tenor, horn, and strings), Rejoice in the Lamb, and the Festival Te Deum.
		Britten was awarded the Order of Merit in March 1965; he was created a Life Peer, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh in the County of Suffolk, in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, June, 1976.
	opera.stanford.edu /Britten/bio.html (792 words)

	On An Overgrown Path: Music will rise from the wreckage.....
		Through superhuman efforts by Britten, Pears and the Festival committee, Idomeno was transferred to a hastily constructed stage in Blythburgh Church.
		It was conducted by its dedicatee Britten, and performed with the two soloists for whom it was written, Galina Vishnevskaya and Mark Rezhetin.
		The definitive life is Benjamin Britten,A Biography by the late lamented Humphrey Carpenter who I paid tribute to in Death of a renaissance man.
	theovergrownpath.blogspot.com /2005/09/music-will-rise-from-wreckage.html (1483 words)

	James Wierzbicki / Benjamin Britten
		Most of the ''sleep'' passages that Britten chose to set, however, are focused clearly enough on sleep of the sort that had actually been experienced by Britten and his various poets.
		Britten and Slater altered him considerably not just by bringing him to a more conclusive end but by giving him a conscience and other redeeming qualities.In the opera, Grimes is a vulnerable figure, even a romantic figure.
		Britten was in California in the summer of 1941 when he came across an article by E.M. Forster in the BBC's weekly magazine.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /jameswierzbicki/britten.htm (3477 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		Benjamin Britten is born at Lowestoft, 22 November 1913, and died at Aldeburgh, 4 December 1976.
		The next year he began working for the GPO Film Unit, where one of his collaborators was Auden: together they worked on concert works as well, Auden's social criticism being matched by a sharply satirical and virtuoso musical style (orchestral song cycle Our Hunting Fathers 1936).
		Stravinsky and Mahler were important influences, but Britten's effortless technique gave his early music a high personal definition, notably shown in orchestral works (Bridge Variations for strings, 1937; Piano Concerto, 1938; Violin Concerto, 1939) and songs (Les illuminations, setting Rimbaud for high voice and strings, 1939).
	www.karadar.it /Dictionary/britten.html (451 words)

	3quarksdaily
		Britten was lucky that one of his earliest friendships was with Auden, and, naturally enough, being with a poet of this stature couldn’t help but rub off on a sensitive and intelligent personality like Britten’s.
		Britten and Auden had a falling out later on, but I don’t think Britten ever forgot what he learnt from Auden about the intimacies possible when music and poetry work in harmony.
		Britten played with Menuhin at the end of the war for survivors of the concentration camps, and the memories he brought back from that time prompted the song cycle he composed not long after, The Holy Sonnets of John Donne.
	3quarksdaily.blogs.com /3quarksdaily/2005/11/poetry_and_cult.html (1556 words)

	Benjamin BRITTEN: Biographical Outline (1):Introduction and reputation by Rob Barnett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Leonard Bernstein, interviewed for Tony Palmer’s Britten documentary, ‘A Time There Was’ said: “He was a man at odds with the world … [his music] was dark, there are gears grinding and not quite meshing … making great pain.” He was also marked about because of his class origin.
		Britten’s success gave him a level of exposure to the media.
		All of this was the envy of composers everywhere.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /britten (656 words)

	Benjamin Britten biography - 8notes.com
		Here Britten composed his first opera to Auden's libretto and the first of many song-cycles for Pears; the period was otherwise remarkable for a number of orchestral works, including concertos for piano and violin, and the Sinfonia da Requiem.
		Another influence was the music of the East, an interest fostered by a tour with Pears in 1957, when Britten was much struck by the music of the Balinese gamelan and by Japanese Noh plays.
		Britten died of heart failure at his house in Aldeburgh, shortly after being made a life peer in 1976.
	www.8notes.com /biographies/britten.asp (1148 words)

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