A Britten Sourcebook

This source book seeks to place in the public domain detail concerning Benjamin Britten's life, public career and compositions which until now was available only in scattered form or known only to those with access to the composer's private papers and composition manuscripts.Contact with primary sources makes it possible, for example, to enumerate for the first time an unprecedentedly detailed list of Britten's vast juvenilia in the Chronology. The Catalogue Raisonné of the composer's...
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This source book seeks to place in the public domain detail concerning Benjamin Britten's life, public career and compositions which until now was available only in scattered form or known only to those with access to the composer's private papers and composition manuscripts.Contact with primary sources makes it possible, for example, to enumerate for the first time an unprecedentedly detailed list of Britten's vast juvenilia in the Chronology. The Catalogue Raisonné of the composer's incidental music for the media of film, theatre and radio is the most thorough-going survey of the field incorporating recent research. The bibliography is the largest since Mitchell and Keller's pioneering work of 1952. We hope that the putting together of all these data into a handy, sturdy form will please and benefit Britten students whether they listen, play, write or teach.