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

Benjamin Britten wrote the leading role of Oberon in his setting of A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ) especially for him ; the countertenor role of Apollo in Britten's Death in Venice ( 1973 ) was created by James Bowman, the best-known amongst the next generation of English countertenors.

* In 1951, British composer Benjamin Britten wrote a piece for solo oboe incorporating six of Ovid's mythical characters.

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.

In 1958, Benjamin Britten wrote a Nocturne for tenor, seven obbligato instruments and strings.

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 residences are named after Horatio Nelson, John Constable, Benjamin Britten, Jeremiah Colman, Horatio Nelson's ship HMS Victory, Robert Kett, Sir Thomas Browne and the Paston family who wrote the Paston Letters.

Though they emphasized a standard Classical and Romantic repertory, they also performed works by such 20th-century composers as Béla Bartók and Benjamin Britten who wrote his third quartet expressly for them.

* Benjamin Britten wrote a tarantella as the third movement of his Sinfonietta for Chamber Orchestra, Op.

The composer and renowned Lieder accompanist Benjamin Britten also wrote cycles that are among the glories of the literature, including The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo, Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente, and Winter Words, all with piano accompaniment, and the orchestral Les Illuminations, Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, and Nocturne.

Terry gave the premières of music by Vaughan Williams ( whose Mass in G minor received its liturgical performance at a Mass in the Cathedral ), Gustav Holst, Herbert Howells and Charles Wood ; in 1959 Benjamin Britten wrote his Missa brevis for the choristers ; and since 1960 works by Lennox Berkeley, William Mathias, Colin Mawby and Francis Grier have been added to the repertoire.

Fischer-Dieskau also performed many works of contemporary music, including Benjamin Britten ( who chose Fischer-Dieskau as the baritone soloist when writing War Requiem ), Samuel Barber, Hans Werner Henze, Karl Amadeus Hartmann ( who wrote his Gesangsszene for him ), Ernst Krenek, Witold Lutosławski, Siegfried Matthus, Othmar Schoeck, Winfried Zillig, Gottfried von Einem and Aribert Reimann.

Benjamin Britten also wrote an arrangement for voice and piano.

He also wrote a series on composers such as George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Benjamin Britten for younger readers.

Benjamin Britten wrote the soprano role in his War Requiem ( completed 1962 ) specially for her.

Benjamin Britten wrote the cantata Saint Nicolas in 1948 for the centennial celebrations of Lancing College in Sussex.

Among the composers and lyricists who wrote songs for her were Auden, MacNeice, Benjamin Britten, Elisabeth Lutyens and William Alwyn.

The piece is based on eight themes which Britten wrote during his childhood ( two per movement ) and for which he had a particular fondness.

Of particular importance was the school's long association with Benjamin Britten, who wrote a solo part for Eric in the Children's Crusade.

Other notable Spiritualists of that era were Mercy Cadwallader, who became a sort of missionary for the movement, and Emma Hardinge Britten, who wrote for the first Spiritualist newspaper in Britain, The Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph.

Gerhard R. Koch, writing in the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper on 25 July, had these observations: " The music of Judith Weir, who also wrote the libretto for her opera, is neither avant-garde nor experimental but has a highly distilled folkloric style with cantabile voices similar to that of Britten without becoming retrospective.

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.

* Florence, Albert Herring ( Britten )

As a reciter West has worked with all the major British orchestras, as well as the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D. C .. Works include Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and The Soldier's Tale, Prokofiev's Eugene Onegin, Beethoven's Egmont, Schoenburg's Ode To Napoleon, Strauss ' Enoch Arden, Saint-Saëns ’ Carnival of the Animals, Bernstein's Kaddish, Walton's Façade and Henry V, Night Mail and The Way to the Sea by Britten and Auden and the world premieres of Concrete by Judith Weir at the Barbican and Howard Goodall ’ s Jason and the Argonauts at the Royal Albert Hall.

In their first year these were held in the Britten Hall of the Royal College of Music ( just across Prince Consort Road from the Albert Hall ).

Benjamin Britten slyly invokes it at the moment in Albert Herring when Sid and Nancy spike Albert's lemonade and then again when he drinks it.

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** Florence, Albert Herring ( Benjamin Britten )

Britten composed Albert Herring at his home, The Old Mill at Snape, in the winter of 1946 and the spring of 1947.

*( Britten ) Albert Herring and The Turn of the Screw

* Albert Herring ( Benjamin Britten ); with English Opera Group conducted by Benjamin Britten.

Vice-presidents have included Leo McKern the actor, scientists Kathleen Lonsdale and Professor Charles Coulson, Benjamin Britten, Sybil Morrison, Sybil Thorndike the actress, Vera Brittain, Dr Albert Belden and Professor Glenn Paige.

Julian Bream of Britain managed to get nearly every British composer from William Walton to Benjamin Britten to Peter Maxwell Davies to write significant works for guitar.

" The 1940 celebrations also included a concert at the Tokyo Kabukiza for which new works were commissioned from composers in France, Hungary, England ( Benjamin Britten, Sinfonia da Requiem, ultimately rejected ), and Germany ( Richard Strauss, Japanische Festmusik ).

In the 20th century, English opera began to assert more independence, with works of Ralph Vaughan Williams and in particular Benjamin Britten, who in a series of works that remain in standard repertory today, revealed an excellent flair for the dramatic and superb musicality.

Illustration by William Britten | W. E. F. Britten for Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson | Tennyson's Mariana ( poem ) | Mariana

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.

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 ).

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.

Britten first met McPhee at Stanton Cottage in the summer of 1939, and the two subsequently performed a number of McPhee's transcriptions for a recording.

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.

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

The Concert Hall was destroyed by fire in 1969, but Britten was determined that it would be rebuilt in time for the following year ’ s Festival, which it duly was.

Forster included Buckingham and his wife May in his circle, which included J. R. Ackerley, a writer and literary editor of The Listener, the psychologist W. J. H. Sprott and, for a time, the composer Benjamin Britten.

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

Many modern composers other than Britten have written, and continue to write, countertenor parts, both in choral works and opera, as well as songs and song-cycles for the voice.