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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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  • 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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    The Benjamin Britten was an international train service linking Amsterdam with London. The train service was named after English composer, conductor and...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • Tony Britten is a British composer, best known for adapting the music and writing the text of the UEFA Champions League Anthem. Britten was educated at...
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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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    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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    Requiem, Op. 66, is a large-scale setting of the Requiem composed by Benjamin Britten mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962. The War Requiem was performed...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The Canticles constitute a series of five musical works by composer Benjamin Britten. The pieces were written at various points in his career, with three...
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    University. Benjamin Breedlove (1993–2011), American YouTube and internet personality Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), British composer Benjamin Burnley (born...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    influence on his successors Giacomo Puccini, Richard Strauss, and Benjamin Britten. After Verdi, the sentimental "realistic" melodrama of verismo appeared...
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    Primrose. English composers Arthur Bliss, York Bowen, Benjamin Dale, Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten, Rebecca Clarke and Ralph Vaughan Williams all wrote...
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    Music of Benjamin Britten. (2nd Ed. – Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 349–353. ISBN 978-0-19-816590-3; White, Eric Walter. Benjamin Britten: His Life...
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    Hurt served as the narrator. Benjamin Britten – Peace and Conflict, a British feature film written and directed by Tony Britten – narrator. Narrator for the...
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