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Benjamin Britten: A Life For Music

Benjamin Britten: A Life For Music


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Benjamin Britten, the greatest twentieth-century English composer and one of the outstanding musicians of his age, was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, in 1913. The East Anglian coast was to be a constant presence in his life and work - notably in his most famous opera, Peter Grimes - and it was there that he and his partner, the tenor Peter Pears, founded the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948. This insightful new biography follows Britten through school and college days, involvement with the Auden Generation in the 1930s and self-imposed wartime exile in America, to his emergence as a central yet paradoxical figure - both radical and ennobled - in his country's musical life. In Britten- A Life for Music, Neil Powell has written the landmark biography for Britten's centenary year.

About the Author :
Neil Powell is a poet and biographer who has written extensively on literature and music. His previous books include Roy Fuller- Writer and Society (1995), The Language of Jazz (1997), George Crabbe- An English Life (2004) and Amis & Son- Two Literary Generations (2008), as well as seven collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Proof of Identity (2012). He lives in Suffolk.

Review :
Neil Powell is a poet, and it shows. Fluent… intimate… psychologically adept… [Powell does] an exceptional job of bringing this strange, neurotic and evasive man to life. A sensible, well-written book by an author who is a literary scholar: this is the biography to choose if you are new to Britten and want an introduction to his life. Powell carries the torch into the present, naming those singers now performing the work anew, painting a portrait of the Aldeburgh festival as it is today. His account has air and light, and brings alive the sense of landscape – the East Anglian coast, the marshes, the wind and waves – which have coloured so much of Britten's music. [A] fine biography... Powell has a more personal touch... takes a more literary approach, and is good at relating the vocal pieces to their sources. Tightly focused... sympathetic. Powell lives in Suffolk and has a strong understanding of the composer’s cultural rootedness in that part of the world.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780091931230
  • Publisher: Cornerstone
  • Publisher Imprint: Hutchinson
  • Height: 240 mm
  • No of Pages: 528
  • Sub Title: A Life For Music
  • Width: 162 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0091931231
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 2013
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 45 mm
  • Weight: 849 gr


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