Benjamin Britten set it to music as a part of his Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings in 1943, and, in his Cantata on Old English Texts of 1952, Igor Stravinsky uses individual verses as interludes between the longer movements.

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.

Interestingly, at the moment that Nicolas becomes a man, Britten colors the melody ’ s supporting harmonies in a much more dissonant manner, using a semitone clash to darken the simple refrain.

Britten orchestrated the second movement for just strings and tenors ; the texture is much less complicated than the preceding movements.

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 Red House in Aldeburgh, where Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears lived and worked together from 1957 until Britten ’ s death in 1976, is now the home of the Britten-Pears Foundation, established to promote their musical legacy.

On a more practical level, Britten facilitated musical execution of the tritone in the closing bars by having the F # sung in one voice, but the C in another.

The tradition of personalized arrangements, dating back at least as far as Thomas Arne's later 18th century arrangements, continues today, running the gamut of musical styles from Romantic to Baroque: Austin, Britten, Sargent, Bonynge, Dobin and other conductors have each imbued the songs with a personal stamp, highlighting different aspects of characterization.

On the occasion of Sacher's 70th birthday, twelve composer-friends of his ( Conrad Beck, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Benjamin Britten, Henri Dutilleux, Wolfgang Fortner, Alberto Ginastera, Cristóbal Halffter, Hans Werner Henze, Heinz Holliger, Klaus Huber and Witold Lutosławski ) were asked by Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich to write compositions for cello solo using his name spelt out in musical notes as the theme ( eS, A, C, H, E, Re ).

Their concerts proved to be a powerful force within the musical world of London, introducing composers such as Benjamin Britten, Elizabeth Maconchy, Grace Williams, Malcolm Williamson and Alan Rawsthorne.

When Britten died, Pärt felt that he had lost hope of meeting the only contemporary composer whose musical outlook, he believed, resembled his own.

There she was responsible for the musical direction of numerous productions, notably Pelléas et Mélisande, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, La Finta Giardiniera, Roméo et Juliette by Berlioz, Orfeo by Monteverdi, Les Brigands by Offenbach, L ' Heure espagnole and L ' Enfant et les Sortilèges by Ravel, Haydn's Il Mondo della luna, Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride, The Rape of Lucretia by Britten and Le Chapeau de paille d ' Italie by Nina Rota, whilst La Station Thermale ( recorded by Ricordi ) and Les Oiseaux de Passage by Fabio Vacchi and Dédale by Hugues Dufourt ( recorded on CD by MFA / Radio France ) are among her world creations.

Johnson has acknowledged a 1972 live recital by Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten as key in directing his musical career ambitions towards being an accompanist.

Pedler's discussion with musical experts about the comparison between this Beatles song and Mahler's " Song of the Earth " revealed that none found anything relevant, except perhaps that Mahler's Farewell movement involves various shades of a C major chord and ends after a flute B-A drop ( the A chord being a VI in the chord of C ) with the " final sonority " of a C6 ( where the C, E and G notes are from the trombones and lower strings and the A from oboe and flute ) ( this final C6 chord seeming to be " printed on the atmosphere " as Benjamin Britten terms it ).

Adrian's musical numbers included " Prehistoric Complaint " ( as a misfit caveman ), " Excelsior " ( as a put-upon Sherpa ), " Guide to Britten " ( as a manic conductor ), " In the D ' Oyly Cart " (( sic ) as a jaded Gilbert and Sullivan performer ), and " Surly Girls " ( as headmistress of St. Trinian's ).

34, is a musical composition by Benjamin Britten in 1946 with a subtitle " Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell ".

In 2007 Dave Walker recorded and released Walking Underwater, a CD featuring new material by Dave Walker, Bob Britten, and William O ’ Keeffe.

It also shows a concern for the concepts of time and memory, both in its use of quotations ( notably from Béla Bartók, Benjamin Britten and Jehan Alain ), and in short interludes that recall material used in earlier movements and / or introduce ideas that will be fully developed later.

Beyond the noh source dramatic material, Britten incorporated elements of noh treatment of theatrical time into this composition.

Later years brought performances of Bartok ’ s Concerto for Orchestra, Elgar ’ s Falstaff, Debussy ’ s La Mer and Britten ’ s Four Sea Interludes – pieces which would have been regarded as ‘ unplayable ’ in earlier times.

Their work involved poets such as W. H. Auden, composers such as Benjamin Britten, and writers such as J.

There, in 1940, Britten composed Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, the first of many song cycles for Pears ( Britten composed his first individual work for Pears in 1937, as part of The Company of Heaven for the BBC ).

Britten wrote this role with Deller specifically in mind, although he was dropped from staged revivals of the work against the composer's wishes, probably because of poor acting technique.

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.

When Tippett showed him the score of A Child of Our Time Britten was enthusiastic about the work and urged him to get it performed.

In Bliss's later years, his work was respected but was thought old-fashioned, and it was eclipsed by the music of younger colleagues such as William Walton and Benjamin Britten.

When its dedicatee, Rostropovich gave the first performance, at the 1970 Aldeburgh Festival, Britten, who conducted the performance, regarded it as a major work, and persuaded Bliss to change its title from " Concertino " to Concerto.

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.

These traditions, including the cultural strands drawn from the United Kingdom's constituent nations and provinces, have continued to evolve in distinctive ways through the work of such composers as Arthur Sullivan, Gustav Holst, Edward Elgar, Hubert Parry, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten.

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.

Britten completed a four-year mechanical engineering course at night school before joining ICI as a cadet draughtsman, giving him a wide range of work experience including mould design, pattern design, metal spinning and various mechanical engineering designs.

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.

The breakthrough work Some Rooms ( 1983 ), which received enormous acclaim, featured a selection of existing music by composers Keith Jarrett, Joseph Canteloube, Francis Poulenc, Benjamin Britten and Samuel Barber, whereas other works featured newly-commissioned original music.

In connection with the same celebration, he was invited by Benjamin Britten to contribute to a collaborative work, a set of Variations on an Elizabethan Theme.

The Decca Record Co. ( London ) released a historic recording featuring Britten conducting the work, with Britten's lifelong companion Peter Pears singing the tenor part ( Britten had dedicated his setting of the song " Being Beauteous " to Pears ).

* Nocturnal after John Dowland, a solo guitar work by Benjamin Britten ( opus 70, 1963 )

Its name is most likely derived either from the famous orchestral work The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra from composer Benjamin Britten or the 1960s television series Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, created by conductor / composer Leonard Bernstein.

The work is based on the Japanese noh play Sumidagawa ( Sumida River ) of Juro Motomasa ( 1395 – 1431 ), which Britten saw during a visit to Japan and the Far East in early 1956.

Saint Nicolas marks Britten ’ s first professional work intended primarily for performance by amateur musicians.

Benjamin Britten, Hedli Anderson and William Coldstream visited Auden at the school several times to work on Auden, Britten and Coldstream's collaboration for the G. P. O.

More accessible styles of choral music include that by Benjamin Britten, including his War Requiem, Five Flower Songs, and Rejoice in the Lamb.

The large scale dramatic works of Karl Jenkins seem to hearken back to the theatricality of Orff, and the music of James MacMillan continues the tradition of boundary-pushing choral works from the United Kingdom begun by Britten, Walton, and Leighton.

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 also used his time in London to attend concerts and become better acquainted with the music of Igor Stravinsky, Gustav Mahler, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Already friends with the composer Aaron Copland, Britten encountered his latest works Billy the Kid and An Outdoor Overture, both of which manifestly influenced his own music.

While in America Britten wrote his first music drama, Paul Bunyan, an operetta ( to a libretto by Auden ).

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.

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.

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

It tends only to be used by performers of transcriptions or reworkings of folk music that have been made by composers from a classical, music-school background such as Benjamin Britten or Percy Grainger.

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

As a pacifist, Britten was inspired by the commission, which gave him complete freedom to choose the type of music to compose.

Writing to his sister after the premiere, Britten said of his music, " I hope it'll make people think a bit.

The building's fine acoustics are also finely suited to the music of Herbert Howells, Gerald Finzi, Benjamin Britten and Kenneth Leighton.

By the late 1930s, Bliss was no longer viewed as a modernist ; the works of his juniors William Walton and the youthful Benjamin Britten were increasingly prominent, and Bliss's music began to seem old-fashioned.

He was delegated by his colleagues Walton, Britten, Peter Maxwell Davies and Richard Rodney Bennett to make a strong protest to William Glock, the BBC's controller of music.

B. Priestley's Johnson Over Jordan directed by Basil Dean, with music by Benjamin Britten.

The Britten theatre, which seats 400, was opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1986 and is used for opera, ballet, music and theatre.

Benjamin Britten might be noted in this period ; given his strong attraction to supernatural themes, folk music and the use of ' the innocent boy ' as a motif.

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Bernard Keeffe played music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Benjamin Britten, Malcolm Arnold and Jean Sibelius, the most requested works as the result of a poll.

Other notable British composers ; Henry Purcell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, Gustav Holst, William Byrd, Thomas Tallis, Henry Wood, John Taverner, John Blow, Arthur Sullivan, William Walton, John Stafford Smith, Henry Bishop, Ivor Novello, Malcolm Arnold, Michael Tippett and John Barry have made major contributions to British music, and are known internationally.