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 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.

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.

He composed his Cello Suites, Cello Symphony and Cello Sonata for Rostropovich, premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival.

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.

The converted 830-seat Snape Maltings Concert Hall was opened by HM The Queen on the opening of the twentieth Aldeburgh Festival on 2 June 1967 and was immediately hailed as one of the best concert halls in the country.

At last the Aldeburgh Festival had a venue that could house larger orchestral works.

From the very start of the Aldeburgh Festival in 1948, Britten appeared as a performer and conductor, frequently accompanying Pears.

Festival celebrations took place in Cardiff, Stratford-upon-Avon, Bath, Perth, Bournemouth, York, Aldeburgh, Inverness, Cheltenham, Oxford and elsewhere and there were touring exhibitions by land and sea.

* Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts – " 8 – 17 June

The internationally renowned Aldeburgh Festival of arts, which takes place at nearby Snape Maltings, was created in 1948 by the resident and acclaimed composer Benjamin Britten.

In 1948, along with Eric Crozier and Peter Pears, he founded the Aldeburgh Festival.

Outside the town, the Snape Maltings is the venue for the Aldeburgh Festival held every June.

* ITV Local Anglia's entertainment show All Angles on Aldeburgh Festival June 2008

* Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival

* The Aldeburgh Poetry Festival

Why not have an Aldeburgh Festival ?” The English Opera Group would provide a core programme of opera productions, but the vision was soon widened to include readings of poetry, literature, drama, lectures and exhibitions of art.

However, the lack of a large venue was holding back the further development of the Festival until one of the largest mid-nineteenth century maltings in East Anglia, at Snape, a village just outside Aldeburgh, became available.

The new concert hall was opened by the Queen on 2 June 1967, at the start of the twentieth Aldeburgh Festival.

The new Concert Hall at Snape became the main focus for the Aldeburgh Festival, although performances continued to be held at all the former venues.

For the first six years of the Aldeburgh Festival, the joint Artistic Directors remained Britten, Pears and Crozier ; in 1955, Britten and Pears were in sole charge, then the following year they were joined by Imogen Holst, who remained a member of the Artistic Directorate until her death in 1984.

The organisation responsible for running the Aldeburgh Festival changed its name to Aldeburgh Music in 2006.

* The Aldeburgh Music festival

In addition to the annual Festival, Aldeburgh Music also runs the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme ( formerly the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies ), Aldeburgh Residencies-a programme offering bespoke training and development opportunities to UK and international artists – Aldeburgh Young Musicians for exceptionally talented young people between the ages of 8 and 18, The Jerwood Opera Writing Programme, for the development of new opera, as well as an extensive education programme.

* Aldeburgh Music

He was also the director and founder of the Rostropovich Music Festival and was a regular performer at the Aldeburgh Festival in the UK.

Knussen has been Principal Guest Conductor of The Hague's Het Residentie Orkest ( Residentie Orchestra ) between 1992 and 1996, the Aldeburgh Festival's co-Artistic Director between 1983 and 1998 and the London Sinfonietta's Music Director between 1998 and 2002 – and is now that ensemble's Conductor Laureate.

** Snape Maltings, the home of part of the annual Aldeburgh Music Festival

By the 1960's the Aldeburgh Music Festival was outgrowing the limited space available in the Jubilee Hall.

In 2006 Aldeburgh Music purchased a 999 year lease of the Snape Maltings Concert Hall, investing around £ 14 million in new studios and rehearsal spaces which came into use in 2009.

* Aldeburgh Music Website

Robert Saxton has written works for the BBC ( TV, Proms and Radio ), LSO, LPO, ECO, London Sinfonietta, Nash Ensemble, Chilingirian String Quartet, St Paul Chamber Orchestra ( USA ), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival / Opera North, Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, City of London, Three Choirs and Lichfield Festivals, Stephen Darlington and the choir of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford, Susan Milan, Susan Bradshaw and Richard Rodney Bennett, Edward Wickham and The Clerks ' Group, Teresa Cahill, Leon Fleisher, Steven Isserlis, Mstislav Rostropovich, John Wallace and the Raphael Wallfisch and John York duo.

She died in 1917 and is buried in Aldeburgh.

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.

The BBC children's series Grandpa In My Pocket is filmed in Southwold and Aldeburgh.

Pears, a Sponsor of the Peace Pledge Union, died at Red House, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and is buried in the churchyard of St Peter and St Paul's Church in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

Aldeburgh () is a coastal town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England.

Located on the River Alde, the town is notable for its Blue Flag shingle beach and fisherman huts where freshly caught fish are sold daily, and the Aldeburgh Yacht Club.

Just south of the beach at Aldeburgh is Orford Ness, which can be reached by a track leading from Aldeburgh, which is popular with people sea fishing.

Aldeburgh is within the Suffolk Coastal parliamentary constituency and local government district.

The Aldeburgh Moot Hall is a Grade I listed timber-framed building which has been used for council meetings for over 400 years.

The town of Aldeburgh or " Owlbarrow " is the setting of a series of children's illustrated books centred on Orlando ( The Marmalade Cat ) written by Kathleen Hale, who spent holidays in the town.

Aldeburgh is also notable for its fish and chip shop.

It is situated near Saxmundham and Aldeburgh, about from the North Sea coast and is northeast of Ipswich and northeast from London.

Cunt ( 1999 ) is a novel by Stewart Home written in the form of a journal kept by a novelist from Aldeburgh called David Kelso ( who also has a false passport in the name of Kevin Callan ).

Snape Maltings concert hall is the home of the Aldeburgh Festival.

In his memoirs Moore wrote that his services were not needed at Benjamin Britten's Aldeburgh Festival, ' as the presiding genius there is the greatest accompanist in the world.

The 95. 9FM frequency, from the Aldeburgh mast, is only recent and had to be approved by the Netherlands government in case of interference in Holland.

Yoxford is a village in the east of Suffolk, England close to the Heritage Coast, Minsmere Reserve ( RSPB ), Aldeburgh and Southwold.