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Benjamin Britten
Edit- Lifespan:
- November 22, 1913 - December 4, 1976, he died aged 63 and was English.
- Birthname:
- Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh.
- Snapshot:
- An Artist with 133 releases, and credited 37 times on others' music. 228 collaborations and 1 musical relative.
Biography
EditEdward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. Showing prodigious talent from an early age – he composed Quatre Chansons françaises for soprano and orchestra at the age of fourteen – he first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945 he leapt to international fame, and for the next fifteen years he devoted much of his compositional attention to writing operas, several of which now appear regularly on international stages. Britten's interests as a composer were wide-ranging; he produced important music in such varied genres as orchestral, choral, solo vocal (much of it written for the tenor Peter Pears), chamber and instrumental, as well as film music. He also took a great interest in writing music for child and amateur performers, and was a fine pianist and conductor.
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