* Boadicea may have had her chips on site of McDonald's by Nick Britten

Although ultimately dissuaded by his parents ( at the suggestion of College staff ), Britten had also intended postgraduate study with Alban Berg in Vienna.

In the meantime, Britten had had his first encounter with Balinese gamelan music through the transcriptions for two pianos made by the Canadian composer Colin McPhee.

Back in 1937, with the inheritance following the death of his mother, Britten had bought The Old Mill in Snape, Suffolk, which became his Suffolk home, and this is where he spent much of his time in 1944 working on Peter Grimes.

Britten wrote Albert Herring for the English Opera Group in 1947, and it was while on tour that Pears came up with the idea of mounting a Festival in the small Suffolk seaside town of Aldeburgh, six miles from Snape, where Britten had now moved to a house on Crag Path.

Britten had the vision that the largest of the malthouses could be converted to become a Concert Hall and Opera House.

Shostakovich had dedicated this score to Britten, and often spoke very highly of his music.

Its quality did not always record well, but there is no doubt that he had unusually good articulation and vocal agility, of which Britten also took advantage.

Britten, who had lived in Snape in the 1930s, had the vision that the largest of the malthouses could be converted into a Concert Hall.

By 1982, Britten – Pears archivist Rosamund Strode calculated that the Festival had to that date presented new works by over 75 composers, with world premieres of 15 operas.

The 2012 Festival, had Oliver Knussen as Artist in Residence, and the typically eclectic progamme included new productions by Netia Jones of Knussen ’ s Where the Wild Things Are and Higglety Pigglety Pop !, a concert series exploring the work of Helmut Lachenmann, recitals by Menahem Pressler, Ian Bostridge, Peter Serkin, Miklós Perényi, Dezsö Ránki and the Arditti and Keller Quartets, the CBSO with the UK premiere of a work by Elliott Carter, as well as dramatised performances with film at the Leiston Long Shop Museum, the complete screening with live accompaniment of Britten ’ s 1930s film scores, a promenade performance of John Cage ’ s Song Books in the Hoffmann Building under the banner of # Faster than Sound, and open-air community events on Aldeburgh Beach.

Benjamin Britten gave the first rediscovered performance of the Hamburg version in 1967, after it had been lost for over seventy years.

The selection of Williamson to fill this post was a surprise, over other composers such as Benjamin Britten, Michael Tippett and Malcolm Arnold, such that William Walton had remarked that " the wrong Malcolm " had been chosen.

He learned the clarinet while serving in the Royal Engineers in the Suez Canal Zone after his sapper friend John A. Britten gave him a clarinet that he had bought at a bazaar and had no use for.

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Benjamin Britten coached them in his own first and second string quartets ( they have recorded all three of his works in the genre ), and entrusted the first British performances of Dmitri Shostakovich's ninth and tenth quartets ( whose scores he had acquired from the composer ) to them.

Figures such as Shostakovich, Schoenberg, and Britten ( all of whom had been considerably influenced by the works of Mahler ), refused, and instead the task was taken up by musicologists: early attempts at realising the entire work were made in America by Clinton Carpenter ( completed 1949, subsequently revised 1966 ), in Germany by Hans Wollschläger ( 1954 – 1962, withdrawn ), and in England by Joe Wheeler ( 1953 – 1965 ) and Deryck Cooke.

After that, Britten and Norman ( who had both trained with De Havilland ) turned their hand to aircraft design.

In this work and his Concerto for Orchestra ( 1968 – 1970 ), he had quickly and fluently absorbed the influences of modernist composers Britten and Berg as well as many mid-century ( largely American ) symphonists, whilst displaying an unusual flair for pacing and orchestration.

* September 2005: Deutsche Post made an offer to buy contract logistics company Exel plc, which had just acquired Tibbett & Britten Group.

It originally was a functioning water tower which was slated for demolition until Ralph Britten bought it and moved it to serve as a sign for his truck stop and tourist information center ( located on a stretch of interstate that was once a part of U. S. Route 66 ).

London-born Emma Hardinge Britten ( 1823 – 99 ) moved to the United States in 1855 and was active in spiritualist circles as a trance lecturer and organiser.

Finding the Red House too large and expensive for one person, Mary Potter agreed to exchange houses with Britten and Pears, who moved into the Red House, with which they were associated for the rest of their lives and beyond.

Benjamin Britten was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, on 22 November 1913, the youngest of four children.

Both Britten and Pears applied for recognition as conscientious objectors ; Britten was initially allowed only non-combatant service in the military, but gained unconditional exemption on appeal.

Following the financial loss of the tour, it was decided that Glyndebourne would not send out any more tours, and in response, Britten along with Peter Pears, his librettist Eric Crozier and designer John Piper set up The English Opera Group with the express role of presenting new opera on tour.

Having previously declined a knighthood, Britten accepted a life peerage – the first composer to have been so honoured – on 2 July 1976 as Baron Britten, of Aldeburgh in the County of Suffolk.

* Billy Budd ( 1951 ) ( with Eric Crozier ; based on Melville's novel, for the opera by Benjamin Britten )

In classical music Benjamin Britten based one of his Six Metamorphoses after Ovid on Niobe.

Britten himself acknowledged the stylistic influence of the Requiems of other composers such as Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem on his own composition.

The Royal Opera presented A Midsummer Night ’ s Dream in the first season, and on 16 June 1973, the first performance of Britten ’ s final opera, Death in Venice, was given at the Concert Hall, with Pears in the role of Aschenbach.

Benjamin Britten conducted recordings of many of his compositions for Decca, from the 1940s through the 1970s ; most of these recordings have been reissued on CD.

Other works from this period are the Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles, commissioned in 1948 by the BBC, the song-cycle The Heart's Assurance, written in memory of Francesca Allinson and first performed in 1951 by Britten and Pears, and the 1953 Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli.

Britten conducted the orchestra on several occasions, and made a number of records with the group.

Other composers of Hölderlin settings include Peter Cornelius, Hans Pfitzner, Richard Strauss ( Drei Hymnen ), Max Reger ( An die Hoffnung ), Alphons Diepenbrock ( Die Nacht ), Richard Wetz ( Hyperion ), Josef Matthias Hauer, Hermann Reutter ( an opera, a choral work, 18 songs ), Stefan Wolpe, Paul Hindemith, Benjamin Britten, Hans Werner Henze, Bruno Maderna ( Hyperion, Stele an Diotima ), Heinz Holliger ( the Scardanelli-Zyklus ), Hans Zender ( Hölderlin lesen I-IV ), György Kurtág ( who planned an opera on Hölderlin ), György Ligeti ( Hölderlin-Phantasien ), Hanns Eisler ( Hollywood Liederbuch ), Viktor Ullmann ( who wrote settings in Terezin concentration camp ), Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Walter Zimmermann ( Hyperion, an epistolary opera ) and Wolfgang Rihm.

The song did not catch fire in the U. S. but was a major hit in England, where it charted a second time in 1963 after being covered by Liverpool beat band Buddy Britten and the Regents, also appearing in instrumental form on The Shadows ' debut LP.

Important 20th century works have been written for string orchestra by Bartók ( Divertimento for String Orchestra ), Stravinsky ( Apollo ), Witold Lutosławski ( Musique funèbre ), Benjamin Britten ( Simple Symphony and Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge ), Charles Wuorinen ( Grand Bamboula ), and Malcolm Williamson ( Symphony No. 7 ).

Examples include Benjamin Britten ( A Ceremony of Carols ), Ralph Vaughan Williams ( Fantasia on Christmas Carols ) and Victor Hely-Hutchinson ( Carol Symphony ).

His novella Billy Budd, Sailor, unpublished until 33 years after the author's death, was later turned into a play, an opera by Benjamin Britten and a film by Peter Ustinov.

The subject also enjoyed a revival in the mid twentieth century ; André Obey's 1931 play Le Viol de Lucrèce was adapted into a 1946 opera by Benjamin Britten.

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH ( 22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976 ) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist ; and one of the central figures of twentieth-century British classical music.

Britten was also responsible, together with Pears and the librettist / producer Eric Crozier, for the founding of the Aldeburgh Festival, and the creation of Snape Maltings Concert Hall.

Britten was the first composer to be given a life peerage.

His father, Robert Victor Britten, was a dentist, and his mother Edith Rhoda Hockey, a talented amateur musician who gave Britten his first lessons in piano and notation.

Britten heard Frank Bridge ’ s orchestral poem The Sea at a festival and was, as he put it, ‘ knocked sideways ’.

Britten was a prolific juvenile composer: some 800 works and fragments precede his early published works.

Of more lasting importance to Britten was his meeting in 1937 with the tenor Peter Pears, who was to become his musical collaborator and inspiration as well as his life partner.

The Aldeburgh Festival was duly launched in June 1948, with Albert Herring playing at the Jubilee Hall and Britten ’ s new cantata for tenor, chorus and orchestra, Saint Nicolas, in the Parish Church.

Britten was appointed a Companion of Honour ( CH ) in the Coronation Honours, 1953.

An increasingly important influence was the music of the East, an interest that was fostered by a tour with Pears in 1957, when Britten was struck by the music of the Balinese gamelan and by Japanese Noh plays.

One of Britten ’ s greatest achievements in the 1960s was his War Requiem, written for the 1962 consecration of the newly reconstructed Coventry Cathedral.

By the 1960s, the Aldeburgh Festival was outgrowing its customary venues, and plans to build a new concert hall in Aldeburgh were not progressing, when redundant Victorian maltings buildings in the village of Snape, down the road from where Britten used to live, became available to hire.