Benjamin Britten – Biographical information from Henze-Digital

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Britten in 1968, by Hans Wild (Source: Wikimedia)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_Britten,_London_Records_1968_publicity_photo_for_Wikipedia_(restored).jpg

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November 22, 1913 in Lowestoft
†

December 4, 1976 in Aldeburgh
Komponist, Dirigent

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Britten in 1968, by Hans Wild (Source: Wikimedia)

Britten's birthplace in Lowestoft, which was the Britten family home for more than twenty years (Source: Wikimedia)

Frank Bridge, Britten's teacher (photographed in 1921) (Source: Wikimedia)

Early influences, clockwise from top left: Mahler, Ireland, Shostakovich, Stravinsky (Source: Wikimedia)

W. H. Auden in 1939 (Source: Wikimedia)

Page from "Peter Grimes" in 1812 edition of Crabbe's The Borough (Source: Wikimedia)

John Piper's Benjamin Britten memorial window in the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Aldeburgh (Source: Wikimedia)

Mstislav Rostropovich and Britten, 1964 (Source: Wikimedia)

Britten's grave in St. Peter and St Paul's Church, Aldeburgh, Suffolk (Source: Wikimedia)

Peter Pears as the General in Owen Wingrave, 1971 (Source: Wikimedia)

Poets whose words Britten set included (clockwise from top l) Blake, Rimbaud, Owen and Verlaine (Source: Wikimedia)

Snape Maltings concert hall, a main venue of the Aldeburgh Festival, founded by Britten, Pears and Crozier (Source: Wikimedia)

Blue plaque at 137 Cromwell Road in London (Source: Wikimedia)

Scallop by Maggi Hambling is a sculpture dedicated to Benjamin Britten on the beach at Aldeburgh. The edge of the shell is pierced with the words "I hear those voices that will not be drowned" from Peter Grimes. (Source: Wikimedia)

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Hans Werner Henze's network of artists. Digital letter edition, https://henze-digital.zenmem.de/A00015F6 (Version 4.0.0 of April 30, 2024)

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