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1. 423 relations: A Birthday Hansel, A Boy Was Born, A cappella, A Ceremony of Carols, A Hymn of St Columba, A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera), Aaron Copland, Abraham, Adrian Boult, Alan Bennett, Alban Berg, Albert Herring, Alberto Cavalcanti, Albion (journal), Aldeburgh, Aldeburgh Festival, Alex Jennings, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Amadeus Quartet, Andrew Porter (music critic), Anthony Tommasini, Arnold Schoenberg, Arnold Whittall, Arthur Benjamin, Arthur Oldham, Arthur Rimbaud, Arthur Sullivan, Arvo Pärt, Atonality, Baritone, Basil Spence, Béla Bartók, BBC, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten Academy, Benjamin Dwyer, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Bertolt Brecht, Billy Budd (opera), Billy the Kid (ballet), Boarding school, Boosey & Hawkes, Boyd Neel, Brandenburg Concertos, British Library, Britten Pears Arts, Britten's Children, Britten's Purcell realizations, Cabinet Office, ... Expand index (373 more) » « Shrink index

2. 20th-century British classical pianists
3. British ballet composers
4. Burials in Suffolk
5. English LGBT composers
6. Ernst von Siemens Music Prize winners
7. LGBT life peers
8. Musicians who were peers
9. Recipients of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize

A Birthday Hansel

A Birthday Hansel, Op. 92, is a song cycle for 'high voice' and harp composed by Benjamin Britten and set to texts by Robert Burns.

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A Boy Was Born

A Boy Was Born, Op. 3, is a choral composition by Benjamin Britten.

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A cappella

Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.

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A Ceremony of Carols

A Ceremony of Carols, Op.

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A Hymn of St Columba

A Hymn of St Columba is a composition for choir and organ written in 1962 by the English composer Benjamin Britten.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera)

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and set to a libretto adapted by the composer and Peter Pears from William Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist and later a conductor of his own and other American music. Benjamin Britten and Aaron Copland are 20th-century classical pianists, composers for piano, LGBT classical composers and LGBT classical musicians.

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Abraham

Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

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Adrian Boult

Sir Adrian Cedric Boult, CH (8 April 1889 – 22 February 1983) was a British conductor. Benjamin Britten and Adrian Boult are 20th-century British conductors (music), Decca Records artists, members of the Order of the Companions of Honour and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett (born 9 May 1934) is an English playwright, author, actor and screenwriter.

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Alban Berg

Alban Maria Johannes Berg (9 February 1885 – 24 December 1935) was an Austrian composer of the Second Viennese School.

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Albert Herring

Albert Herring, Op.

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Alberto Cavalcanti

Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti (February 6, 1897 – August 23, 1982) was a Brazilian-born film director and producer.

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Albion (journal)

Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies was a peer-reviewed history journal publishing articles on aspects of British history of any period.

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Aldeburgh

Aldeburgh is a coastal town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district, in the county of Suffolk, England, north of the River Alde.

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Aldeburgh Festival

The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music.

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Alex Jennings

Alex Michael Jennings (born 10 May 1957) is an English actor of the stage and screen, who worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892), was an English poet. Benjamin Britten and Alfred, Lord Tennyson are English Anglicans.

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Amadeus Quartet

The Amadeus Quartet was a string quartet founded in 1947 and disbanded in 1987, having retained its founding members throughout its history.

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Andrew Porter (music critic)

Andrew Brian Porter (26 August 19283 April 2015) was a British music critic, opera librettist, opera director, scholar, and organist.

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Anthony Tommasini

Anthony Carl Tommasini (born April 14, 1948) is an American music critic and author who specializes in classical music.

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Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian and American composer, music theorist, teacher and writer. Benjamin Britten and Arnold Schoenberg are composers for piano.

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Arnold Whittall

Arnold Whittall (born 1935) is a British musicologist and academic.

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Arthur Benjamin

Arthur Leslie Benjamin (18 September 1893 in Sydney – 10 April 1960 in London) was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. Benjamin Britten and Arthur Benjamin are Alumni of the Royal College of Music, LGBT classical composers and LGBT classical musicians.

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Arthur Oldham

Arthur William Oldham OBE (6 September 1926 – 4 May 2003) was an English composer and choirmaster. Benjamin Britten and Arthur Oldham are 20th-century British conductors (music), 20th-century English male musicians and Alumni of the Royal College of Music.

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Arthur Rimbaud

Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (20 October 1854 – 10 November 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes and for his influence on modern literature and arts, prefiguring surrealism.

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Arthur Sullivan

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer. Benjamin Britten and Arthur Sullivan are British ballet composers, English Anglicans, English male opera composers and English opera composers.

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Arvo Pärt

Arvo Pärt (born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music. Benjamin Britten and Arvo Pärt are Foreign members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Recipients of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize.

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Atonality

Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key.

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Baritone

A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types.

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Basil Spence

Sir Basil Urwin Spence, (13 August 1907 – 19 November 1976) was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Modernist/Brutalist style. Benjamin Britten and Basil Spence are Burials in Suffolk.

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Béla Bartók

Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. Benjamin Britten and Béla Bartók are composers for piano.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC Singers

The BBC Singers is a professional British chamber choir, employed by the BBC.

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BBC Symphony Orchestra

The BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) is a British orchestra based in London.

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Benjamin Britten Academy

Benjamin Britten Academy (formerly The Benjamin Britten High School) is a coeducational secondary school located in the northern outskirts of Lowestoft, Suffolk, England.

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Benjamin Dwyer

Benjamin Dwyer (born 3 August 1965) is an Irish composer, guitarist and musicologist.

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Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Bergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle.

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Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

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Billy Budd (opera)

Billy Budd, Op.

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Billy the Kid (ballet)

Billy the Kid is a 1938 ballet written by the American composer Aaron Copland on commission from Lincoln Kirstein.

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Boarding school

A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction.

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Boosey & Hawkes

Boosey & Hawkes is a British music publisher, purported to be the largest specialist classical music publisher in the world.

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Boyd Neel

Louis Boyd Neel O.C. (19 July 190530 September 1981) was an English, and later Canadian conductor and academic. Benjamin Britten and Boyd Neel are 20th-century British conductors (music), 20th-century English musicians, Decca Records artists and English Anglicans.

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Brandenburg Concertos

The Brandenburg Concertos (BWV 1046–1051) by Johann Sebastian Bach are a collection of six instrumental works presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, in 1721 (though probably composed earlier).

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British Library

The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.

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Britten Pears Arts

Britten Pears Arts is a large music education organisation based in Suffolk, England.

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Britten's Children

Britten's Children is a scholarly 2006 book by John Bridcut that describes the English composer Benjamin Britten's relationship with several adolescent boys.

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Britten's Purcell realizations

Britten's Purcell realizations is a common name for compositions for voice and piano by Benjamin Britten which are arrangements of works by Henry Purcell.

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Cabinet Office

The Cabinet Office is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Cantata academica

Cantata academica, Carmen basiliense, Op.

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Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his

Canticle I: My beloved is mine and I am his, Op.40, is a composition for high voice and piano by Benjamin Britten, the first part of his series of five Canticles.

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Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac

Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, Op.51, is a composition for tenor, alto and piano by Benjamin Britten, part of his series of five Canticles.

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Canticle III: Still falls the rain

Canticle III: Still falls the rain, Op. 55, is a 1954 vocal composition by Benjamin Britten for tenor, horn and piano.

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Canticle IV: The Journey of the Magi

Canticle IV: The Journey of the Magi, Op. 86, is a composition for three male solo voices and piano by Benjamin Britten, part of his series of five Canticles.

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Canticles (Britten)

The Canticles constitute a series of five musical works by composer Benjamin Britten.

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Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten

Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten is a short canon in A minor, written in 1977 by the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, for string orchestra and bell.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Cello Sonata (Britten)

The Cello Sonata, Op.

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Cello suites (Britten)

The cello suites by Benjamin Britten (Opp. 72, 80, and 87) are a series of three compositions for solo cello, dedicated to Mstislav Rostropovich.

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Cello Symphony (Britten)

The Symphony for Cello and Orchestra or Cello Symphony, Op. 68, was written in 1963 by the British composer Benjamin Britten.

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Chamber opera

Chamber opera is a designation for operas written to be performed with a chamber ensemble rather than a full orchestra.

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Charing Cross Hospital

Charing Cross Hospital is district general hospital and teaching hospital located in Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom.

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Charles Mackerras

Sir Alan Charles MacLaurin Mackerras (1925 2010) was an Australian conductor. Benjamin Britten and Charles Mackerras are royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Charles Villiers Stanford

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (30 September 1852 – 29 March 1924) was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic era. Benjamin Britten and Charles Villiers Stanford are composers for piano.

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Children's Crusade (Britten)

Children's Crusade, Op. 82, subtitled a Ballad for children's voices and orchestra is a composition by Benjamin Britten.

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Christopher Headington

Christopher John Magenis Headington (28 April 1930 – 19 March 1996) was an English composer, pianist, musicologist, and music critic. Benjamin Britten and Christopher Headington are 20th-century classical pianists, Alumni of the Royal College of Music and English classical pianists.

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Christopher Isherwood

Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. Benjamin Britten and Christopher Isherwood are English pacifists.

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Civil service

The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.

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Claude Debussy

(Achille) Claude Debussy (|group. Benjamin Britten and Claude Debussy are composers for piano.

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Clifford Curzon

Sir Clifford Michael Curzon CBE (né Siegenberg; 18 May 19071 September 1982) was an English classical pianist. Benjamin Britten and Clifford Curzon are 20th-century English male musicians, 20th-century English musicians, 20th-century classical pianists, English classical pianists, English male classical pianists and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Colin Graham

Colin Graham OBE (22 September 1931 in Hove, England – 6 April 2007 in St. Louis, Missouri) was a stage director of opera, theatre, and television.

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Colin Matthews

Colin Matthews, OBE (born 13 February 1946) is an English composer of contemporary classical music. Benjamin Britten and Colin Matthews are 20th-century English male musicians.

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Colin McPhee

Colin Carhart McPhee (March 15, 1900 – January 7, 1964) was a Canadian-American composer and ethnomusicologist. Benjamin Britten and Colin McPhee are 20th-century classical pianists, LGBT classical composers and LGBT classical musicians.

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Columba

Columba or Colmcille (7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD) was an Irish abbot and missionary evangelist credited with spreading Christianity in what is today Scotland at the start of the Hiberno-Scottish mission.

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Columbia Graphophone Company

Columbia Graphophone Co.

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Conscientious objector

A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of conscience or religion.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.

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Coronation of Elizabeth II

The coronation of Elizabeth II as queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms took place on 2 June 1953 at Westminster Abbey in London.

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Coventry Blitz

The Coventry Blitz (blitz: from the German word Blitzkrieg meaning "lightning war") was a series of bombing raids that took place on the British city of Coventry.

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Coventry Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of Saint Michael, commonly known as Coventry Cathedral, is the seat of the Bishop of Coventry and the Diocese of Coventry within the Church of England.

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Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885

The Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c.69), or "An Act to make further provision for the Protection of Women and Girls, the suppression of brothels, and other purposes," was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the latest in a 25-year series of legislation in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland beginning with the Offences against the Person Act 1861.

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Curlew River

Curlew River – A Parable for Church Performance (Op. 71) is an English music drama, with music by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by William Plomer.

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Dame school

Dame schools were small, privately run schools for children age two to five.

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Das Lied von der Erde

Das Lied von der Erde (The song of the Earth) is an orchestral song cycle for two voices and orchestra written by Gustav Mahler between 1908 and 1909.

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David Hemmings

David Edward Leslie Hemmings (18 November 1941 – 3 December 2003) was an English actor and director.

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David Matthews (composer)

David Matthews (born 9 March 1943) is an English composer of mainly orchestral, chamber, vocal and piano works. Benjamin Britten and David Matthews (composer) are 20th-century English male musicians.

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David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir

David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, (29 May 1900 – 27 January 1967), known as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe from 1942 to 1954 and as Viscount Kilmuir from 1954 to 1962, was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge who combined an industrious and precocious legal career with political ambitions that took him to the offices of Solicitor General, Attorney General, Home Secretary and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.

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David Webster (opera manager)

Sir David Lumsden Webster (3 July 1903 – 9 May 1971) was the chief executive of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 1945 to 1970.

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Death in Venice

Death in Venice is a novella by German author Thomas Mann, published in 1912.

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Death in Venice (opera)

Death in Venice, Op.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Dennis Brain

Dennis Brain (17 May 19211 September 1957) was a British horn player. Benjamin Britten and Dennis Brain are 20th-century English musicians.

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Diana McVeagh

Diana McVeagh (born 6 September 1926, Ipoh) is a British author on classical music. Benjamin Britten and Diana McVeagh are Alumni of the Royal College of Music.

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Dichterliebe

Dichterliebe, A Poet's Love (composed 1840), is the best-known song cycle by Robert Schumann (Op. 48).

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Dictionary of National Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885.

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Dido and Aeneas

Dido and Aeneas (Z. 626) is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate.

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Die schöne Müllerin

("The Fair Maid of the Mill", Op. 25, D. 795), is a song cycle by Franz Schubert from 1823 based on 20 poems by Wilhelm Müller.

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Dies irae

"italic" ("the Day of Wrath") is a Latin sequence attributed to either Thomas of Celano of the Franciscans (1200–1265) or to Latino Malabranca Orsini (d. 1294), lector at the Dominican studium at Santa Sabina, the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) in Rome.

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (28 May 1925 – 18 May 2012) was a German lyric baritone and conductor of classical music. Benjamin Britten and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau are Ernst von Siemens Music Prize winners, Recipients of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer. Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich are 20th-century classical pianists, composers for piano, Foreign members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, members of the Royal Academy of Belgium, Recipients of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Donald Mitchell (writer)

Donald Charles Peter Mitchell CBE (6 February 1925 – 28 September 2017) was a British writer on music, particularly known for his books on Gustav Mahler and Benjamin Britten and for the book The Language of Modern Music, published in 1963.

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Early Music (journal)

Early Music is a peer-reviewed academic journal specialising in the study of early music.

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Edith Sitwell

Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells.

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Edward Clark (conductor)

Thomas Edward Clark (10 May 188830 April 1962) was an English conductor and music producer for the BBC. Benjamin Britten and Edward Clark (conductor) are 20th-century British conductors (music) and 20th-century English musicians.

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Edward Elgar

Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Benjamin Britten and Edward Elgar are 20th-century British conductors (music), 20th-century English male musicians, 20th-century English musicians, British ballet composers, English classical composers of church music, members of the Order of Merit and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Edward Greenfield

Edward Harry Greenfield OBE (3 July 1928 – 1 July 2015) was an English music critic and broadcaster.

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Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville

Edward Charles Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville (13 November 1901 – 4 July 1965) was a British music critic, novelist and, in his last years, a member of the House of Lords.

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Egdon Heath (Holst)

Egdon Heath, Op.

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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Benjamin Britten and Elizabeth I are English Anglicans.

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EMI Classics

EMI Classics was a record label founded by Thorn EMI in 1990 to reduce the need to create country-specific packaging and catalogues for internationally distributed classical music releases.

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Emily Brontë

Emily Jane Brontë (commonly; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Benjamin Britten and Emily Brontë are English Anglicans.

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English National Opera

English National Opera (ENO) is a British opera company based in London, resident at the London Coliseum in St Martin's Lane.

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English Opera Group

The English Opera Group was a small company of British musicians formed in 1947 by the composer Benjamin Britten (along with John Piper, Eric Crozier and Anne Wood) for the purpose of presenting his and other, primarily British, composers' operatic works.

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English Pastoral School

The English Pastoral School, sometimes called the English Nationalist School or by detractors the Cow Pat School, is an informal designation for a group of English composers of classical music working during the early to mid 20th century, who sought to build a distinctively English style of music by composing in a style informed by Tudor music and English folk music, and often explicitly evoking the English countryside.

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Eric Crozier

Eric Crozier OBE (14 November 19147 September 1994) was a British theatrical director, opera librettist and producer, long associated with Benjamin Britten.

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Ernest Farrar

Ernest Bristow Farrar (7 July 1885 – 18 September 1918) was an English composer, pianist and organist. Benjamin Britten and Ernest Farrar are 20th-century English male musicians and Alumni of the Royal College of Music.

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Ernst von Siemens Music Prize

The Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (short: Siemens Music Prize, Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis) is an annual music prize given by the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste (Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts) on behalf of the (Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation), established in 1972.

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Fanfare (magazine)

Fanfare is an American bimonthly magazine devoted to reviewing recorded music in all playback formats.

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Fifty pence (British coin)

The British decimal fifty pence coin (often shortened to 50p in writing and speech) is a denomination of sterling coinage worth of one pound.

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Francis Quarles

Francis Quarles (about 8 May 1592 – 8 September 1644) was an English poet most notable for his emblem book entitled Emblems.

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Frank Bridge

Frank Bridge (26 February 187910 January 1941) was an English composer, violist and conductor. Benjamin Britten and Frank Bridge are 20th-century British conductors (music), 20th-century English male musicians, 20th-century English musicians, Alumni of the Royal College of Music, composers for piano and English pacifists.

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Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Benjamin Britten and Franz Schubert are composers for piano.

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Frederick Ashton

Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton (17 September 190418 August 1988) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer. Benjamin Britten and Frederick Ashton are members of the Order of Merit and members of the Order of the Companions of Honour.

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Frederick Delius

Delius, photographed in 1907 Frederick Theodore Albert Delius (born Fritz Theodor Albert Delius;; 29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934) was an English composer. Benjamin Britten and Frederick Delius are 20th-century English male musicians, members of the Order of the Companions of Honour and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Friday Afternoons

Friday Afternoons is a collection of twelve song settings by Benjamin Britten, composed 1933–35 for the pupils of Clive House School, Prestatyn, Wales where his brother, Robert, was headmaster.

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Fugue

In classical music, a fugue is a contrapuntal, polyphonic compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches), which recurs frequently throughout the course of the composition.

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Galina Vishnevskaya

Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya (Галина Павловна Вишневская, Ivanova, Иванова; 25 October 1926 – 11 December 2012) was a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966.

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Gamelan

Gamelan (ꦒꦩꦼꦭꦤ꧀, ᮌᮙᮨᮜᮔ᮪, ᬕᬫᭂᬮᬦ᭄) is the traditional ensemble music of the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese peoples of Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments.

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George Crabbe

George Crabbe (24 December 1754 – 3 February 1832) was an English poet, surgeon and clergyman.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (baptised italic,; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. Benjamin Britten and George Frideric Handel are English opera composers.

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George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood

George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (7 February 1923 – 11 July 2011), styled The Honourable George Lascelles before 1929 and Viscount Lascelles between 1929 and 1947, was a British classical music administrator and author, and an extended Member of the British Royal Family, as a maternal grandson of King George V and Queen Mary, and thus a first-cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. Benjamin Britten and George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood are English Anglicans.

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Gerald Moore

Gerald Moore CBE (30 July 1899 – 13 March 1987) was an English classical pianist best known for his career as a collaborative pianist for many distinguished musicians. Benjamin Britten and Gerald Moore are 20th-century English male musicians, 20th-century English musicians, 20th-century classical pianists, classical accompanists, English classical pianists and English male classical pianists.

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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas.

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Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) and to the works they jointly created.

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Gloriana

Gloriana, Op.

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Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an annual opera festival held at Glyndebourne, an English country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.

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GPO Film Unit

The GPO Film Unit was a subdivision of the UK General Post Office.

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Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

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Gramophone (magazine)

Gramophone (known as The Gramophone prior to 1970) is a magazine published monthly in London, devoted to classical music, particularly to reviews of recordings.

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Gramophone Company

The Gramophone Company Limited (The Gramophone Co. Ltd.), based in the United Kingdom and founded by Emil Berliner, was one of the early recording companies, the parent organisation for the His Master's Voice (HMV) label, and the European affiliate of the American Victor Talking Machine Company.

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Gresham's School

Gresham's School is a public school (English fee-charging boarding and day school) in Holt, Norfolk, England, one of the top thirty International Baccalaureate schools in England. Benjamin Britten and Gresham's School are people educated at Gresham's School.

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Guildhall School of Music and Drama

The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is a music and drama school located in the City of London, England.

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Gustav Holst

Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Benjamin Britten and Gustav Holst are 20th-century English male musicians, 20th-century English musicians, Alumni of the Royal College of Music, British ballet composers, English male opera composers, English opera composers, English socialists and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.

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H. T. Cadbury-Brown

Henry Thomas Cadbury-Brown RA (20 May 1913 – 9 July 2009), also known as H.T. Cadbury-Brown and Jim Cadbury-Brown, was an English architect.

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Hans Keller

Hans (Heinrich) Keller (11 March 19196 November 1985) was an Austrian-born British musician and writer, who made significant contributions to musicology and music criticism, as well as being a commentator on such disparate fields as psychoanalysis and football.

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Hanseatic Goethe Prize

The Hanseatic Goethe Prize (German: Hansischer Goethe-Preis) was a German literary and artistic award, given biennially from 1949 to 2005 to a figure of European stature.

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Harold Samuel

Harold Samuel (23 May 187915 January 1937) was a distinguished English pianist and pedagogue. Benjamin Britten and Harold Samuel are English classical pianists and English male classical pianists.

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Heart failure

Heart failure (HF), also known as congestive heart failure (CHF), is a syndrome caused by an impairment in the heart's ability to fill with and pump blood.

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Henry James

Henry James (–) was an American-British author. Benjamin Britten and Henry James are members of the Order of Merit.

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Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell (rare:; September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music. Benjamin Britten and Henry Purcell are English classical composers of church music, English male opera composers and English opera composers.

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Henry Wood

Sir Henry Joseph Wood (3 March 186919 August 1944) was an English conductor best known for his association with London's annual series of promenade concerts, known as the Proms. Benjamin Britten and Henry Wood are members of the Order of the Companions of Honour and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben, BWV 102

Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben (Lord, Your eyes look for faith), 102 in Leipzig for the tenth Sunday after Trinity and it was first performed on 25 August 1726.

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History of Poland (1939–1945)

The history of Poland from 1939 to 1945 encompasses primarily the period from the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to the end of World War II.

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Holt, Norfolk

Holt is a market town, civil parish and electoral ward in the English county of Norfolk.

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Home Office

The Home Office (HO), also known (especially in official papers and when referred to in Parliament) as the Home Department, is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Home Secretary

The secretary of state for the Home Department, more commonly known as the Home Secretary, is a senior minister of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom and the head of the Home Office.

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Homophobia

Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who identify or are perceived as being lesbian, gay or bisexual.

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Honest to God

Honest to God is a book written by the Anglican Bishop of Woolwich John A.T. Robinson, criticising traditional Christian theology.

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Hubert Parry

Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet (27 February 1848 – 7 October 1918), was an English composer, teacher and historian of music. Benjamin Britten and Hubert Parry are English classical composers of church music.

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Humphrey Carpenter

Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter (29 April 1946 – 4 January 2005) was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster.

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Humphrey Searle

Humphrey Searle (26 August 1915 – 12 May 1982) was an English composer and writer on music. Benjamin Britten and Humphrey Searle are 20th-century English male musicians, 20th-century English musicians, Alumni of the Royal College of Music, British ballet composers, English male opera composers, English opera composers and international Rostrum of Composers prize-winners.

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Hymn to St Cecilia

Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27 is a choral piece by Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), a setting of a poem by W. H. Auden written between 1940 and 1942.

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Ian Rank-Broadley

Ian Rank-Broadley FRBS (born 1952) is a British sculptor who has produced many acclaimed works, among which are several designs for British coinage and the memorial statue of Princess Diana at Kensington Palace in London unveiled on her 60th birthday in 2021.

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (– 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). Benjamin Britten and Igor Stravinsky are 20th-century classical pianists, composers for piano, Recipients of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Imogen Holst

Imogen Clare Holst (12 April 1907 – 9 March 1984) was a British composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and festival administrator. Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst are 20th-century English musicians and Alumni of the Royal College of Music.

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Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten

Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten is an orchestral piece by William Walton.

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In paradisum

"In paradisum" (English: "Into paradise") is an antiphon from the traditional Latin liturgy of the Western Church Requiem Mass.

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International Rostrum of Composers

The International Rostrum of Composers (IRC) is an annual forum organized by the International Music Council that offers broadcasting representatives the opportunity to exchange and publicize pieces of contemporary classical music.

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Introduction and Allegro (Elgar)

Sir Edward Elgar's Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Op.

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Irving Kolodin

Irving Kolodin (February 21, 1908April 29, 1988) was an American music critic and music historian.

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Isaac

Isaac is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

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Islington

Islington is a district in the north of Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington.

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Jack Westrup

Sir Jack Westrup, FBA (26 July 190421 April 1975) was an English musicologist, writer, teacher and occasional conductor and composer. Benjamin Britten and Jack Westrup are 20th-century British conductors (music).

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James Bowman (countertenor)

James Thomas Bowman (6 November 1941 – 27 March 2023) was an English countertenor.

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Janet Baker

Dame Janet Abbott Baker (born 21 August 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer. Benjamin Britten and Janet Baker are members of the Order of the Companions of Honour, Recipients of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Janine Jansen

Janine Jansen (born 7 January 1978) is a Dutch violinist and violist.

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Jennifer Vyvyan

Jennifer Brigit Vyvyan (13 March 1925 – 5 April 1974) was a British classical soprano who had an active international career in operas, concerts, and recitals from 1948 up until her death in 1974.

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Jerome Kern

Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.

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Joan Chissell

Joan Olive Chissell (22 May 191931 January 2007) was an English writer and lecturer on music, and music reviewer for The Times 1948–79. Benjamin Britten and Joan Chissell are Alumni of the Royal College of Music.

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Joan Cross

Joan Cross CBE (7 September 1900 – 12 December 1993) was an English soprano, closely associated with the operas of Benjamin Britten.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.

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Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms (7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor of the mid-Romantic period. Benjamin Britten and Johannes Brahms are composers for piano.

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John Barbirolli

Sir John Barbirolli (Giovanni Battista Barbirolli; 2 December 189929 July 1970) was a British conductor and cellist. Benjamin Britten and John Barbirolli are 20th-century British conductors (music), members of the Order of the Companions of Honour and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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John Bridcut

John Bridcut MVO is an English documentary filmmaker.

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John Christie (opera manager)

John Christie (14 December 1882 – 4 July 1962) was an English landowner and theatrical producer. Benjamin Britten and John Christie (opera manager) are members of the Order of the Companions of Honour.

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John Culshaw

John Royds Culshaw, OBE (28 May 192427 April 1980) was a pioneering English classical record producer for Decca Records.

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John Ireland (composer)

John Nicholson Ireland (13 August 187912 June 1962) was an English composer and teacher of music. Benjamin Britten and John Ireland (composer) are Alumni of the Royal College of Music, composers for piano and English classical composers of church music.

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John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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John Piper (artist)

John Egerton Christmas Piper CH (13 December 1903 – 28 June 1992) was an English painter, printmaker and designer of stained-glass windows and both opera and theatre sets. Benjamin Britten and John Piper (artist) are members of the Order of the Companions of Honour.

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John Robinson (bishop of Woolwich)

John Arthur Thomas Robinson (16 May 1919 – 5 December 1983) was an English New Testament scholar, author and the Anglican Bishop of Woolwich.

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John Rockwell

John Sargent Rockwell (born September 16, 1940) is an American music critic, dance critic and arts administrator.

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John Shirley-Quirk

John Stanton Shirley-Quirk CBE (28 August 19317 April 2014) was an English bass-baritone.

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John Woolford (muse)

John Woolford (30 May 1920 – 9 August 2016) was the muse, confidant, and the first romantic interest of the composer Benjamin Britten.

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Johnson Over Jordan

Johnson Over Jordan is a play by J.B. Priestley.

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Jonathan Keates

Jonathan B. Keates FRSL (born 1946) is an English writer, biographer, novelist and former chairman of the Venice in Peril Fund.

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Joseph Haydn

Franz Joseph Haydn (31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. Benjamin Britten and Joseph Haydn are composers for piano.

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Journal of the Society for American Music

The Journal of the Society for American Music, published quarterly, is a peer-reviewed academic journal and the official journal of the Society for American Music.

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Journey of the Magi

"Journey of the Magi" is a 43-line poem written in 1927 by T. S. Eliot (1888–1965).

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Julian Bream

Julian Alexander Bream (15 July 193314 August 2020) was an English classical guitarist and lutenist.

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Kathleen Ferrier

Kathleen Mary Ferrier (22 April 19128 October 1953) was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the classical works of Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar. Benjamin Britten and Kathleen Ferrier are Decca Records artists and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Knight

A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity.

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La bohème

La bohème is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions quadri, tableaux or "images", rather than atti (acts).

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Labouchere Amendment

Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, commonly known as the Labouchere Amendment, made "gross indecency" a crime in the United Kingdom.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.

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Lavender marriage

A lavender marriage is a male–female mixed-orientation marriage, undertaken as a marriage of convenience to conceal the socially stigmatised sexual orientation of one or both partners.

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Léon Goossens

Léon Jean Goossens, CBE, FRCM (12 June 1897 – 13 February 1988) was an English oboist. Benjamin Britten and Léon Goossens are 20th-century English male musicians, 20th-century English musicians and Alumni of the Royal College of Music.

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Léonie Sonning Music Prize

The Léonie Sonning Music Prize, or Sonning Award, which is recognized as Denmark's highest musical honor, is given annually to an international composer or musician.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Benjamin Britten and Leonard Bernstein are 20th-century classical pianists, composers for piano, Ernst von Siemens Music Prize winners, LGBT classical composers, Recipients of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Les Illuminations (Britten)

(The Illuminations), Op. 18, is a song cycle by Benjamin Britten, first performed in 1940.

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Lewis Foreman

Lewis Foreman (born 1941) is a musicologist and author of books, articles, programme notes and CD sleeve notes on classical music, specialising in British music.

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Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Conservative Party, in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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Libretto

A libretto (an English word derived from the Italian word libretto) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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Life peer

In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers.

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London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London. Benjamin Britten and London Symphony Orchestra are Decca Records artists.

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Los Angeles Opera

The Los Angeles Opera is an American opera company in Los Angeles, California.

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Love from a Stranger (1937 film)

Love from a Stranger is a 1937 British thriller film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring Ann Harding, Basil Rathbone and Binnie Hale.

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Lowestoft

Lowestoft is a coastal town and civil parish in the East Suffolk district of Suffolk, England.

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Lucasta Miller

Lucasta Frances Elizabeth Miller (born 5 June 1966) is an English writer and literary journalist.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Benjamin Britten and Ludwig van Beethoven are composers for piano.

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Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

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Major seventh

In music from Western culture, a seventh is a musical interval encompassing seven staff positions (see Interval number for more details), and the major seventh is one of two commonly occurring sevenths.

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Malcolm Sargent

Sir Harold Malcolm Watts Sargent (29 April 1895 – 3 October 1967) was an English conductor, organist and composer widely regarded as Britain's leading conductor of choral works. Benjamin Britten and Malcolm Sargent are 20th-century British conductors (music) and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Malt house

A malt house, malt barn, or maltings, is a building where cereal grain is converted into malt by soaking it in water, allowing it to sprout and then drying it to stop further growth.

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Marion Stein

Maria Donata Nanetta Paulina Gustava Erwina Wilhelmine Stein (18 October 19266 March 2014), known as Marion Stein, was an Austrian-born British concert pianist. Benjamin Britten and Marion Stein are 20th-century classical pianists and Alumni of the Royal College of Music.

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Martin Kettle

Martin James Kettle (born 7 September 1949) is a British journalist and author.

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Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. Benjamin Britten and Maurice Ravel are composers for piano.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Michael Crawford

Michael Patrick Smith (born 19 January 1942), known professionally as Michael Crawford, is an English actor, comedian and singer.

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Michael Kennedy (music critic)

George Michael Sinclair Kennedy CBE (19 February 1926 – 31 December 2014) was an English music critic and author who specialized in classical music.

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Michael Oliver (writer, broadcaster)

Michael Edgar Oliver (20 July 1937 – 1 December 2002) was a BBC broadcaster, writer and journalist on classical music.

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Michael Tippett

Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War. Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett are 20th-century British conductors (music), 20th-century English male musicians, 20th-century English musicians, Alumni of the Royal College of Music, English LGBT composers, English male opera composers, English opera composers, English pacifists, LGBT classical composers, LGBT classical musicians, members of the Order of Merit, members of the Order of the Companions of Honour and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Missa Brevis (Britten)

The Missa Brevis in D, Op.

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Modern architecture

Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements.

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Monaural sound

Monaural sound or monophonic sound (often shortened to mono) is sound intended to be heard as if it were emanating from one position.

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Montagu Slater

Charles Montagu Slater (23 September 1902 – 19 December 1956) was an English poet, novelist, playwright, journalist, critic and librettist.

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Montague Haltrecht

Montague Haltrecht (27 February 1932 – 27 March 2010) was an English writer, literary critic, model and radio and TV presenter.

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Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich (27 March 192727 April 2007) was a Russian cellist and conductor. Benjamin Britten and Mstislav Rostropovich are Ernst von Siemens Music Prize winners, Recipients of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Muir Mathieson

James Muir Mathieson, OBE (24 January 19112 August 1975) was a British musician whose career was spent mainly as the musical director for British film studios. Benjamin Britten and Muir Mathieson are 20th-century British conductors (music) and Alumni of the Royal College of Music.

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Murray Perahia

Murray David Perahia (born April 19, 1947) is an American pianist and conductor. Benjamin Britten and Murray Perahia are 20th-century classical pianists.

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Music & Letters

Music & Letters is an academic journal published quarterly by Oxford University Press with a focus on musicology.

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Myfanwy Piper

Mary Myfanwy Piper (Welsh:; 28 March 1911 – 18 January 1997) was a British art critic and opera librettist.

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National Recording Registry

The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed by the Librarian of Congress.

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Naxos (company)

Naxos comprises numerous companies, divisions, imprints, and labels specializing in classical music but also audiobooks and other genres.

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New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic is an American symphony orchestra based in New York City. Benjamin Britten and New York Philharmonic are Decca Records artists.

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Nicholas Maw

John Nicholas Maw (5 November 1935 – 19 May 2009) was a British composer.

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Night Mail

Night Mail is a 1936 British documentary film directed and produced by Harry Watt and Basil Wright, and produced by the General Post Office (GPO) Film Unit.

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NMC Recordings

NMC Recordings is a British recording label and a charity which specialises in recording works by living composers from the British Isles.

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Nocturnal after John Dowland

Nocturnal After John Dowland, Op. 70 is a classical guitar piece composed in 1963 by English composer Benjamin Britten for guitarist Julian Bream.

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Nocturne (Britten)

Nocturne, Op. 60, is a song cycle by Benjamin Britten, written for tenor, seven obbligato instruments and strings.

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Noh

is a major form of classical Japanese dance-drama that has been performed since the 14th century.

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Norfolk and Norwich Festival

Norfolk & Norwich Festival is an arts festival held annually in Norwich, England.

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Norwich

Norwich is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England of which it is the county town.

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Noye's Fludde

Noye's Fludde is a one-act opera by the British composer Benjamin Britten, intended primarily for amateur performers, particularly children.

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Obbligato

In Western classical music, obbligato (also spelled obligato) usually describes a musical line that is in some way indispensable in performance.

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Old Buckenham Hall School

Old Buckenham Hall School (commonly known as OBH) is a day and boarding preparatory school with pre-prep for boys and girls in the village of Brettenham, Suffolk, England.

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Olin Downes

Edwin Olin Downes, better known as Olin Downes (January 27, 1886 – August 22, 1955), was an American music critic, known as "Sibelius's Apostle" for his championship of the music of Jean Sibelius.

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Oliver Knussen

Stuart Oliver Knussen (12 June 1952 – 8 July 2018) was a British composer of contemporary classical music and conductor. Benjamin Britten and Oliver Knussen are 20th-century British conductors (music).

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On the Frontier

On the Frontier: A Melodrama in Three Acts, by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, was the third and last play in the Auden–Isherwood collaboration, first published in 1938.

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On This Island

On This Island is a book of poems by W. H. Auden, first published under the title Look, Stranger! in the UK in 1936, then published under Auden's preferred title, On this Island, in the US in 1937.

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Opera (British magazine)

Opera is a monthly British magazine devoted to covering all things related to opera.

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Opera North

Opera North is an English opera company based in Leeds.

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Operabase

Operabase is an online global database for audiences and professionals.

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Operetta

Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera.

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Order of Merit

The Order of Merit (Ordre du Mérite) is an order of merit for the Commonwealth realms, recognising distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or the promotion of culture. Benjamin Britten and order of Merit are members of the Order of Merit.

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Order of the Companions of Honour

The Order of the Companions of Honour is an order of the Commonwealth realms. Benjamin Britten and order of the Companions of Honour are members of the Order of the Companions of Honour.

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Order of the Polar Star

The Royal Order of the Polar Star (Swedish: Kungliga Nordstjärneorden), sometimes translated as the Royal Order of the North Star, is a Swedish order of chivalry created by King Frederick I on 23 February 1748, together with the Order of the Sword and the Order of the Seraphim.

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Oscar Hammerstein II

Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) director in musical theater for nearly 40 years.

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Osian Ellis

Osian Gwynn Ellis (8 February 1928 – 5 January 2021) was a Welsh harpist, composer and teacher.

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Our Hunting Fathers

Our Hunting Fathers, Op. 8, is an orchestral song cycle by Benjamin Britten, first performed in 1936.

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Owen Wingrave

Owen Wingrave, Op.

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Pacifism

Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence.

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Passacaglia

The passacaglia is a musical form that originated in early seventeenth-century Spain and is still used today by composers.

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Paul Bunyan (operetta)

Paul Bunyan, Op 17, is an operetta in two acts and a prologue composed by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by W. H. Auden, designed for performance by semi-professional groups.

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Paul Kildea

Paul Francis Kildea is an Australian conductor and author, considered an expert on Benjamin Britten.

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Paul Verlaine

Paul-Marie Verlaine (30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement.

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Peace Pledge Union

The Peace Pledge Union (PPU) is a non-governmental organisation that promotes pacifism, based in the United Kingdom.

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Pedophilia

Pedophilia (alternatively spelled paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered as one of the major English Romantic poets.

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Percy Grainger

Percy Aldridge Grainger (born George Percy Grainger; 8 July 188220 February 1961) was an Australian-born composer, arranger and pianist who moved to the United States in 1914 and became an American citizen in 1918. Benjamin Britten and Percy Grainger are 20th-century classical pianists and composers for piano.

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Peter Evans (musicologist)

Peter Angus Evans (7 November 1929 – 1 January 2018) was an English musicologist, most noteworthy for his book The Music of Benjamin Britten.

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Peter Grimes

Peter Grimes, Op.

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Peter Maxwell Davies

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (8 September 1934 – 14 March 2016) was an English composer and conductor, who in 2004 was made Master of the Queen's Music. Benjamin Britten and Peter Maxwell Davies are 20th-century British conductors (music), 20th-century English musicians, British ballet composers, English LGBT composers, English male opera composers, English opera composers, LGBT classical composers, members of the Order of the Companions of Honour and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Peter Pears

Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears (22 June 19103 April 1986) was an English tenor. Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears are Alumni of the Royal College of Music, Burials in Suffolk, English conscientious objectors and LGBT classical musicians.

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Peter Warlock

Philip Arnold Heseltine (30 October 189417 December 1930), known by the pseudonym Peter Warlock, was a British composer and music critic.

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Petrushka

Petrushka (a) is a stock character of Russian folk puppetry.

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Phaedra (cantata)

Phaedra, Op.

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Phantasy Quartet

Phantasy Quartet, Op. 2, is the common name of a piece of chamber music by Benjamin Britten, a quartet for oboe and string trio composed in 1932.

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Philip Brett

Philip Brett (October 17, 1937 – October 16, 2002) was a British-born American musicologist, musician and conductor.

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Philip Hope-Wallace

Philip Adrian Hope-Wallace CBE (6 November 1911 – 3 September 1979) was an English music and theatre critic, whose career was mostly with The Manchester Guardian (later known as The Guardian).

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Piano Concerto (Britten)

Benjamin Britten's Piano Concerto, Op.

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Preparatory school (United Kingdom)

A preparatory school (or, shortened: prep school) in the United Kingdom is a fee-charging private primary school that caters for children up to approximately the age of 13.

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Prestatyn

Prestatyn is a seaside town and community in Denbighshire, Wales.

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Public school (United Kingdom)

In England and Wales, a public school is a type of fee-charging private school originally for older boys.

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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI.

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Ragtime

Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, is a musical style that had its peak from the 1890s to 1910s.

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Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer. Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams are 20th-century English male musicians, 20th-century English musicians, Alumni of the Royal College of Music, British ballet composers, choral composers, Decca Records artists, English classical composers of church music, English male opera composers, English opera composers, members of the Order of Merit and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Requiem

A Requiem (Latin: rest) or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead (Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead (Missa defunctorum), is a Mass of the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, using a particular form of the Roman Missal.

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Reynolds Stone

Alan Reynolds Stone, CBE, RDI (13 March 1909 – 23 June 1979) was an English wood engraver, engraver, designer, typographer and painter.

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Richard Morrison (music critic)

Richard Duncan Morrison (born 24 July 1954) is an English music critic who specializes in classical music.

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Richard Rodney Bennett

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett (29 March 193624 December 2012) was an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist and occasional vocalist. Benjamin Britten and Richard Rodney Bennett are 20th-century English male musicians, British ballet composers, English LGBT composers, English male opera composers, English male pianists, English opera composers and LGBT classical composers.

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Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor best known for his tone poems and operas. Benjamin Britten and Richard Strauss are royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Rita Thomson

Rita Thomson (16 August 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Scottish nurse who looked after the composer Benjamin Britten and the singer Peter Pears at their home in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England.

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Robert Burns

Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist.

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Robert Saxton

Robert Saxton (born 8 October 1953 in London) is a British composer.

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Robert Schumann

Robert Schumann (8 June 181029 July 1856) was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era. Benjamin Britten and Robert Schumann are composers for piano.

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Robert Tear

Robert Tear (pronounced to rhyme with "beer"), CBE (8 March 1939 – 29 March 2011) was a Welsh tenor singer, teacher and conductor. Benjamin Britten and Robert Tear are 20th-century British conductors (music).

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Ronald Duncan

Ronald Frederick Henry Duncan (6 August 1914 – 3 June 1982) was an English writer, poet and playwright of German descent, now best known for his poem The Horse and for preparing the libretto for Benjamin Britten's opera The Rape of Lucretia, first performed in 1946.

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Royal College of Music

The Royal College of Music (RCM) is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK.

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Royal Mail

The Royal Mail Group Limited, trading as Royal Mail, is a British postal service and courier company.

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Royal Mint

The Royal Mint is the United Kingdom's official maker of British coins.

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a historic opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Royal Philharmonic Society

The Royal Philharmonic Society (RPS) is a British music society, formed in 1813.

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Rupert Christiansen

Rupert Christiansen (born 1954) is an English writer, journalist and critic.

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Sadler's Wells Theatre

Sadler's Wells Theatre is a London performing arts venue, located in Rosebery Avenue, Islington.

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Saint Cecilia

Saint Cecilia (Sancta Caecilia), also spelled Cecelia, was a Roman virgin martyr and is venerated in Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden.

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Saint Nicolas (Britten)

Saint Nicolas, Op.

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Sally Beamish

Sarah Frances Beamish (born 26 August 1956) is a British composer and violist.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. Benjamin Britten and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are English Anglicans.

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Süßer Trost, mein Jesus kömmt, BWV 151

Süßer Trost, mein Jesus kömmt (Sweet comfort, my Jesus comes), Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (catalogue of Bach's works)151, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Scenes from Goethe's Faust

Scenes from Goethe's Faust (Szenen aus Goethes Faust) is a musical-theatrical work by composer Robert Schumann.

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Scottish Chamber Orchestra

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) is an Edinburgh-based UK chamber orchestra.

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Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings

The Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op.

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Serge Koussevitzky

Serge Koussevitzky (born Sergey Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky;Koussevitzky's original Russian forename is usually transliterated into English as either "Sergei" or "Sergey"; however, he himself adopted the French spelling "Serge", using it in his signature. (See. Retrieved 5 November 2009.) His surname can be transliterated variously as "Koussevitzky", "Koussevitsky", "Kussevitzky", "Kusevitsky", or, into Polish, as "Kusewicki"; however, he himself chose to use "Koussevitzky".

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Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo

Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo is a song cycle composed by Benjamin Britten (191376) for tenor voice and piano in 1940, and published as his Op. 22.

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Sexual Offences Act 1967

The Sexual Offences Act 1967 (c. 60) is an act of Parliament in the United Kingdom.

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Simple Symphony

The Simple Symphony, Op.

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Sinfonia da Requiem

Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20, for orchestra is a sinfonia written by Benjamin Britten in 1940 at the age of 26.

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Sinfonietta (Britten)

Benjamin Britten's Sinfonietta was composed in 1932, at the age of 18, while he was a student at the Royal College of Music.

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Smith Square Hall

Smith Square Hall (formerly St John's Smith Square) is a concert hall in the centre of Smith Square, Westminster, London.

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Snape, Suffolk

Snape is a small village in the English county of Suffolk, on the River Alde close to Aldeburgh.

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Sonata form

Sonata form (also sonata-allegro form or first movement form) is a musical structure generally consisting of three main sections: an exposition, a development, and a recapitulation.

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Songs and Proverbs of William Blake

Songs and Proverbs of William Blake is a song cycle composed by Benjamin Britten (191376) in 1965 for baritone voice and piano and published as his Op. 74.

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Sophie Wyss

Sophie Adele Wyss (5 July 189725 December 1983) was a Swiss soprano who made her career as a concert singer and broadcaster in the UK.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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St Bartholomew's Church, Orford

The Church of St Bartholomew is the parish church of the town of Orford, England.

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St John Passion

The Passio secundum Joannem or St John Passion (Johannes-Passion), BWV 245, is a Passion or oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, the earliest of the surviving Passions by Bach.

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St John's Wood

St John's Wood is a district in the City of Westminster, London, England, about 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of Charing Cross.

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St Peter and St Paul's Church, Aldeburgh

St Peter and St Paul's Church, Aldeburgh is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

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Stereophonic sound

Stereophonic sound, or more commonly stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that recreates a multi-directional, 3-dimensional audible perspective.

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Steuart Bedford

Steuart John Rudolf Bedford (31 July 1939 – 15 February 2021) was an English orchestral and opera conductor and pianist. Benjamin Britten and Steuart Bedford are 20th-century British conductors (music), 20th-century English male musicians and 20th-century English musicians.

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Steuart Wilson

Sir James Steuart Wilson (21 July 1889 – 18 December 1966) was an English singer, known for tenor roles in oratorios and concerts in the first half of the 20th century.

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String Quartet No. 2 (Britten)

String Quartet No.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Sviatoslav Richter

Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (– August 1, 1997) was a Soviet and Russian classical pianist. Benjamin Britten and Sviatoslav Richter are 20th-century classical pianists, Recipients of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Symphony No. 14 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 4 (Mahler)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony No. 8 (Mahler)

The Symphony No.

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Symphony of Psalms

The Symphony of Psalms is a choral symphony in three movements composed by Igor Stravinsky in 1930 during his neoclassical period.

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Syphilis

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum.

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Tanglewood Music Festival

The Tanglewood Music Festival is a music festival held every summer on the Tanglewood estate in Stockbridge and Lenox in the Berkshire Hills in western Massachusetts.

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Tempo (journal)

Tempo is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that specialises in music of the 20th century and contemporary music.

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Tenor

A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types.

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The Ascent of F6

The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts, by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, was the second and most successful play in the Auden–Isherwood collaboration, first published in 1936.

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The Beggar's Opera

The Beggar's Opera is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay with music arranged by Johann Christoph Pepusch.

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The Borough (poem)

The Borough is a collection of poems by George Crabbe published in 1810.

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The Burning Fiery Furnace

The Burning Fiery Furnace is an English music drama with music composed by Benjamin Britten, his Opus 77, to a libretto by William Plomer.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Dream of Gerontius

The Dream of Gerontius, Op.

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The Establishment

In sociology and in political science, the term The Establishment describes the dominant social group, the elite who control a polity, an organization, or an institution.

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The Fairy-Queen

The Fairy-Queen (1692; Purcell catalogue number Z.629) is a semi-opera by Henry Purcell; a "Restoration spectacular".

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Habit of Art

The Habit of Art is a 2009 play by English playwright Alan Bennett, centred on a fictional meeting between W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten while Britten is composing the opera Death in Venice.

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The Herald (Glasgow)

The Herald is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783.

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The Holy Sonnets of John Donne

The Holy Sonnets of John Donne is a song cycle composed in 1945 by Benjamin Britten for tenor or soprano voice and piano, and published as his Op. 35.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The King's Stamp

The King's Stamp is a 1935 short film produced by Alberto Cavalcanti under the auspices of the GPO Film Unit and directed by William Coldstream.

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The Little Sweep

The Little Sweep, Op.

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The Musical Times

The Musical Times is an academic journal of classical music edited and produced in the United Kingdom and the oldest such journal still being published in the country.

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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Poet's Echo

The Poet's Echo (Russian title: Эхо поэта) is a song cycle composed by Benjamin Britten (191376) in August 1965 during a holiday visit to the Soviet Union, in Dilizhan, Armenia.

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The Prince of the Pagodas

The Prince of the Pagodas is a ballet created for The Royal Ballet by choreographer John Cranko with music commissioned from Benjamin Britten.

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The Prodigal Son (Britten)

The Prodigal Son is a music drama by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by William Plomer.

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The Rape of Lucretia

The Rape of Lucretia (Op. 37) is an opera in two acts by Benjamin Britten, written for Kathleen Ferrier, who performed the title role.

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The Red House, Aldeburgh

The Red House, in the coastal town of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, was the home of the composer Benjamin Britten, from 1957 until his death in 1976, and of his partner, Peter Pears, until the latter's death in 1986.

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The Rite of Spring

The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.

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The Royal Opera

The Royal Opera is a British opera company based in central London, resident at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.

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The Sea (Bridge)

The Sea, H.100 is an orchestral suite written in 1910–11 by Frank Bridge.

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The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly British news magazine focusing on politics, culture, and current affairs.

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The Sunday People

The Sunday People is a British tabloid Sunday newspaper.

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The Sunday Telegraph

The Sunday Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper, first published on 5 February 1961 and published by the Telegraph Media Group, a division of Press Holdings.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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The Turn of the Screw (opera)

The Turn of the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.

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The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.

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Thomas Mann

Paul Thomas Mann (6 June 1875 – 12 August 1955) was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.

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Three Bs

"The Three Bs" generally refers to the supposed primacy of Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Johannes Brahms in classical music.

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Three Sisters (musical)

Three Sisters is a musical written by Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics and book) and Jerome Kern (music).

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Tony Palmer (director)

Tony Palmer (born 29 August 1941) Retrieved 24 September 2011 is a British film director and author.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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United Kingdom commemorative stamps 2010–2019

This is a list of the commemorative stamps of the United Kingdom for the years 2010–2019.

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University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street, named The Heart Hospital until refurbished and renamed in 2015, was a specialist cardiac hospital located in London, United Kingdom until 2015.

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Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge

Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10, is a work for string orchestra by Benjamin Britten.

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Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician.

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Victor ludorum

Victor ludorum (or victrix ludorum) is Latin for "the winner of the games".

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the reign of Queen Victoria, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Viola

The viola is a string instrument that is usually bowed.

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Viola Concerto (Walton)

The Viola Concerto by William Walton was written in 1929 and first performed at the Queen's Hall, London on 3 October of that year by Paul Hindemith as soloist and the composer conducting.

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Violin Concerto (Britten)

Benjamin Britten's Violin Concerto, Op. 15, was written from 1938 to 1939 and dedicated to Henry Boys, his former teacher at the Royal College of Music.

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Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic. Benjamin Britten and Virgil Thomson are LGBT classical composers.

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Virgin Classics

Virgin Classics was a record label founded in 1988 as part of Richard Branson's Virgin Records.

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W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was a British-American poet. Benjamin Britten and w. H. Auden are people educated at Gresham's School.

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Walter Willson Cobbett

Walter Willson Cobbett (11 July 184722 January 1937) was an English businessman and amateur violinist, and the editor/author of Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music.

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War Requiem

The War Requiem, Op. 66, is a choral and orchestral composition by Benjamin Britten, composed mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962.

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Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group Corp., commonly abbreviated as WMG, is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England.

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Who Are These Children?

Who Are These Children? is a song cycle for tenor and piano composed in 1969 by Benjamin Britten (191376), and published as his Op. 84.

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Wihuri Sibelius Prize

The Wihuri Sibelius Prize is a music prize awarded by the Wihuri Foundation for International Prizes to prominent composers who have become internationally known and acknowledged.

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Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier.

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William Glock

Sir William Frederick Glock, CBE (3 May 190828 June 2000) was a British music critic and musical administrator who was instrumental in introducing the Continental avant-garde, notably promoting the career of Pierre Boulez.

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William Mann (critic)

William Somervell Mann (14 February 19245 September 1989) was an English music critic.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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William Soutar

William Soutar (28 April 1898 – 15 October 1943) was a Scottish poet and diarist who wrote in English and in Braid Scots.

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William Walton

Sir William Turner Walton (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer. Benjamin Britten and William Walton are 20th-century English male musicians, British ballet composers, English classical composers of church music, English male opera composers, English opera composers, members of the Order of Merit and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Winterreise

Winterreise (Winter Journey) is a song cycle for voice and piano by Franz Schubert (D. 911, published as Op. 89 in 1828), a setting of 24 poems by German poet Wilhelm Müller.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Benjamin Britten and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are composers for piano.

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Word painting

Word painting, also known as tone painting or text painting, is the musical technique of composing music that reflects the literal meaning of a song's lyrics or story elements in programmatic music.

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Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin (22 April 191612 March 1999), was an American-born British violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain. Benjamin Britten and Yehudi Menuhin are Ernst von Siemens Music Prize winners, members of the Order of Merit, musicians who were peers, Recipients of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize and royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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Zeb Soanes

Zebedee Soanes (born 24 June 1976) is a British radio presenter who hosts the weekday evening music show Relaxing Evenings with Zeb Soanes on Classic FM. Benjamin Britten and Zeb Soanes are people from Lowestoft.

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Zoltán Kodály

Zoltán Kodály (Kodály Zoltán,; 16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967) was a Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist, music pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher. Benjamin Britten and Zoltán Kodály are royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medallists.

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See also

20th-century British classical pianists

• Benjamin Britten
• Betty Humby Beecham
• Claire and Antoinette Cann
• Howard Blake
• John Bingham (pianist)
• John Ogdon
• Katharine Goodson
• Kay Cavendish
• Paul Harvey (pianist)
• Renna Kellaway
• Steven Osborne (pianist)
• Susan Bradshaw
• William Hurlstone
• Winifred Christie
• Yvonne Adair

British ballet composers

• Adela Maddison
• Alan Rawsthorne
• Alex Prior
• Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Anna Appleby
• Arnold Cooke
• Arthur Bliss
• Arthur Sullivan
• Benjamin Britten
• Brian Elias
• Colin McAlpin
• Constant Lambert
• Dora Bright
• Edward Elgar
• Frédéric Alfred d'Erlanger
• Gavin Gordon (composer)
• Geoffrey Toye
• Graham Fitkin
• Gustav Holst
• Humphrey Searle
• Ian Whyte (conductor)
• Joby Talbot
• John Lanchbery
• John McCabe (composer)
• Jonathan Mills (composer)
• Julian Cochran
• Lord Berners
• Mátyás Seiber
• Malcolm Arnold
• Mark-Anthony Turnage
• Michael Costa (conductor)
• Paul McCartney
• Paul Reade
• Pete M. Wyer
• Peter Maxwell Davies
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Richard Rodney Bennett
• Simon Jeffes
• William Denis Browne
• William Walton

Burials in Suffolk

• Alexander Obolensky
• Alfred Ablett
• Alfred Dudley Ward
• Arthur Lett-Haines
• Basil Spence
• Benjamin Britten
• Cedric Morris
• Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Baron Cornwallis
• Edmund Blunden
• Edward Rotheram
• Frank Heilgers
• Fuller Maitland Wilson
• Harry Ord
• Henry Addison (VC)
• Henry Maitland Wilson
• James Rivett-Carnac (Royal Navy officer)
• Jane Carr (actress, born 1909)
• John Ashby (Royal Navy officer)
• John Hadfield
• John Lapsley
• John Peel
• Leonard Cheshire
• Mary Hervey
• Percy Edwards
• Peter Harold Wright
• Peter Pears
• Peter Shand Kydd
• Philip Broke
• R. P. Keigwin
• Richard Thomas Farren
• Robert Hitcham
• Samuel Harvey
• Simon Sudbury
• Sir Edmund Bacon, 2nd Baronet, of Redgrave
• Sir John Rous, 1st Baronet
• Sir Joshua Rowley, 7th Baronet
• Thomas Clarkson
• Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
• Thomas Traill
• William Aitken (politician)
• William Crofts, 1st Baron Crofts
• William Rowley (Royal Navy officer)
• William Sancroft
• William Wareing

English LGBT composers

• Adiescar Chase
• Alison Goldfrapp
• Angela Morley
• Benjamin Britten
• Benjamin Till
• Declan Bennett
• Dee Palmer
• Ethel Smyth
• George Benjamin (composer)
• Iain Bell
• James Bernard (composer)
• John Lanchbery
• Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
• Lionel Bart
• Lord Berners
• Mica Levi
• Michael Finnissy
• Michael Tippett
• Noël Coward
• Patrick Nunn
• Pete Townshend
• Peter Maxwell Davies
• Richard Addinsell
• Richard O'Brien
• Richard Rodney Bennett
• Richard Thomas (musician)
• Roger Sacheverell Coke
• Stanley Bate
• Stephen Hough
• Thomas Adès
• Toby Marlow
• Verity Susman
• Waen Shepherd

Ernst von Siemens Music Prize winners

• Alfred Brendel
• Andrés Segovia
• Anne-Sophie Mutter
• Arditti Quartet
• Aribert Reimann
• Beat Furrer
• Benjamin Britten
• Brian Ferneyhough
• Christoph Eschenbach
• Claudio Abbado
• Daniel Barenboim
• Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
• Elliott Carter
• Friedrich Cerha
• Gidon Kremer
• György Kurtág
• György Ligeti
• H. C. Robbins Landon
• Hans Werner Henze
• Harrison Birtwistle
• Heinz Holliger
• Helmut Lachenmann
• Henri Dutilleux
• Herbert von Karajan
• Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Klaus Huber
• Leonard Bernstein
• Luciano Berio
• Mariss Jansons
• Mauricio Kagel
• Maurizio Pollini
• Michael Gielen
• Mstislav Rostropovich
• Nikolaus Harnoncourt
• Olivier Messiaen
• Per Nørgård
• Peter Gülke
• Peter Schreier
• Pierre Boulez
• Pierre-Laurent Aimard
• Rebecca Saunders
• Reinhold Brinkmann
• Rudolf Serkin
• Tabea Zimmermann
• Witold Lutosławski
• Wolfgang Rihm
• Yehudi Menuhin

LGBT life peers

• Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
• Benjamin Britten
• Brian Paddick, Baron Paddick
• Charles Allen, Baron Allen of Kensington
• Chris Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury
• Debbie Wilcox, Baroness Wilcox of Newport
• Deborah Stedman-Scott, Baroness Stedman-Scott
• Elizabeth Barker, Baroness Barker
• Greg Barker, Baron Barker of Battle
• Guglielmo Verdirame, Baron Verdirame
• Guy Black, Baron Black of Brentwood
• Hugh Dalton
• Ian Duncan, Baron Duncan of Springbank
• James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead
• Jennifer Hilton, Baroness Hilton of Eggardon
• John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley
• Jonny Oates, Baron Oates
• Michael Bishop, Baron Glendonbrook
• Michael Cashman
• Michael Montague, Baron Montague of Oxford
• Nick Herbert
• Norman St John-Stevas
• Paul Scriven
• Peter Mandelson
• Ray Collins, Baron Collins of Highbury
• Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby
• Robert Hayward, Baron Hayward
• Roy Jenkins
• Ruth Davidson
• Ruth Hunt, Baroness Hunt of Bethnal Green
• Selwyn Lloyd
• Spencer Livermore, Baron Livermore
• Stephen Parkinson, Baron Parkinson of Whitley Bay
• Stephen Sherbourne
• Terence Etherton, Baron Etherton
• Tom Driberg
• Waheed Alli, Baron Alli

Musicians who were peers

• Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Benjamin Britten
• Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington
• Lord Berners
• Michael Berkeley
• Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie
• Willoughby Bertie, 4th Earl of Abingdon
• Yehudi Menuhin

Recipients of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize

• Alfred Brendel
• Andrés Segovia
• Anne-Sophie Mutter
• Arthur Rubinstein
• Arvo Pärt
• Benjamin Britten
• Birgit Nilsson
• Boris Christoff
• Daniel Barenboim
• Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
• Dmitri Shostakovich
• Eric Ericson
• Georg Solti
• Gidon Kremer
• György Kurtág
• György Ligeti
• Heinz Holliger
• Herbert Blomstedt
• Hildegard Behrens
• Igor Stravinsky
• Isaac Stern
• Janet Baker
• Jean-Pierre Rampal
• John Eliot Gardiner
• Jordi Savall
• Kaija Saariaho
• Keith Jarrett
• Krystian Zimerman
• Lars Ulrik Mortensen
• Leonard Bernstein
• Leonidas Kavakos
• Marie-Claire Alain
• Mariss Jansons
• Martin Fröst
• Michala Petri
• Miles Davis
• Mogens Wöldike
• Mstislav Rostropovich
• Olivier Messiaen
• Peter Schreier
• Pierre Boulez
• Rafael Kubelík
• Sergiu Celibidache
• Simon Rattle
• Sofia Gubaidulina
• Sviatoslav Richter
• Witold Lutosławski
• Yehudi Menuhin
• Yo-Yo Ma

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Britten

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