Neil Powell: Benjamin Britten
A Life for Music. UK 2014, 512 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 29.95Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas. Random HouseBorn in Lowestoft, Suffolk, in 1913, Benjamin Britten was the youngest child of a dentist father and amateur musician mother. After studying at the Royal College of Music, he became a vital part of London's creative and intellectual life during the 1930s, collaborating with W.H. Auden and meeting his lifelong partner, the tenor Peter Pears. At the outbreak of WWII, ...
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