Letters from a Life Vol 1: 1923-39
Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten
Volume One of these remarkable letters and diaries opens with a letter from Britten aged nine to his formidable mother, Edith. Music is already at the centre of his life, and it accompanies him through prep and public school and then to London to the Royal College of Music, where the phenomenally gifted but inexperienced young composer is plunged into metropolitan life and makes influential new friends, among them W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. This was a time of prodigious musical creativity, a growing awareness of his sexuality, and the dawning of his political convictions. Most importantly, during this period Britten met Peter Pear…
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Weitere Autoren: Mitchell, Donald (Hrsg.) / Reed, Philip (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-571-26591-6
- EAN: 9780571265916
- Produktnummer: 13873454
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 12'016 KB
- Auflage: Main
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