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Letters from a Life: the Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976: Volume Four: 1952-1957 (Selected Letters of Britten, 4) by Donald Mitchell; assistant editor: Philip Reed; associate editors: Rosamund Strode, Kathleen Mitchell, Judy Young. Vol.1, 1923-1939 is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Letters from a Life: the Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976: Volume Four: 1952-1957 (Selected Letters of Britten, 4) about?

This fifth volume of Britten's letters covers a period of intense activity in his life and works, culminating in his great pacifist choral masterpiece, War Requiem. The fifth volume of the annotated selected letters of Benjamin Britten - edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke - covers the years 1958-65, during which he wrote two major operatic works, A Midsummer Night's Dream and the ground-breaking Curlew River, and his pacifist choral masterpiece, War Requiem. Other significant compositions from the period include the orchestral song-cycle Nocturne, the first of the cello pieces for Rostropovich, and settings of poems by Blake and Pushkin. Correspondents include friends, fellow artists and collaborators such as William Plomer (librettist of Curlew River), Edith Sitwell, E. M. Forster, Christopher Isherwood, Robert Graves, the Earl of Harewood, Yehudi Menuhin, Mstislav Rostropovich, Galina Vishnevskaya, Dmitri Shostakovich, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Barbara Hepworth and Duncan Grant, as well as Britten's partner and principal interpreter, Peter Pears. The volume charts the peak of Britten's position as one of the leading figures of the international musical establishment as compos

Author

Donald Mitchell; assistant editor: Philip Reed; associate editors: Rosamund Strode, Kathleen Mitchell, Judy Young. Vol.1, 1923-1939

Publisher

London: Faber and Faber; Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY: The Boydell Press in association with The Britten-Pears Foundation

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520242593

Subjects

Music, Biography, Memoir

Updated

2026-03-24