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Format: XX, 452 Seiten : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-1-78327-108-5

Series Statement: Aldeburgh studies in music volume 10

Content: This volume comprises the complete surviving correspondence between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. The 365 letters written throughout their 39-year relationship are here brought together and published, as Pears intended, for the first time. While the correspondence provides valuable evidence of the development of Britten's works, more significant is theinsight into his relationship with Pears and their day-to-day life together. Entertaining to read, domestic and intimate, the letters provide glimpses of cultural and artistic life in the twentieth century, including pacifism and conscientious objection, critical assessments of music and other artists, transport and communications development in the twentieth century, the 'Aldeburgh corpses', artcollecting, gossip, everyday life in an English country house, the development of the Aldeburgh Festival, performance practice in early music, looking after dachshunds, travel, and a host of other topics. Above all, when read together, Britten and Pears's letters allow the clearest possible look 'behind the scenes' of one of the most productive creative partnerships of the twentieth century. - VICKI P. STROEHER is Professor of Music History at Marshall University where she is also Coordinator of the Music History & Literature area. NICHOLAS CLARK is the Librarian at the Britten-Pears Foundation at The Red House, Britten and Pears's home in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. JUDE BRIMMER is an Archivist at the Britten-Pears Foundation. (Klappentext)

Note: Foreword by Fiona Shaw

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-78204-629-5

Language: English

Subjects: Musicology

Keywords: 1913-1976 Britten, Benjamin ; 1910-1986 Pears, Peter ; Briefsammlung ; Briefsammlung

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Author information: Pears, Peter 1910-1986

Author information: Britten, Benjamin 1913-1976

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Format: 1 online resource (xx, 452 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 1-78204-629-1

Series Statement: Aldeburgh studies in music

Uniform Title: Works. Selections

Content: 'It's a life of the two of us.'〈BR〉〈BR〉 This volume comprises the complete surviving correspondence between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. The 365 letters written throughout their 39-year relationship are here brought together and published, as Pears intended, for the first time. While the correspondence provides valuable evidence of the development of Britten's works, more significant is theinsight into his relationship with Pears and their day-to-day life together. Entertaining to read, domestic and intimate, the letters provide glimpses of cultural and artistic life in the twentieth century, including pacifism and conscientious objection, critical assessments of music and other artists, transport and communications development in the twentieth century, the 'Aldeburgh corpses', artcollecting, gossip, everyday life in an English country house, the development of the Aldeburgh Festival, performance practice in early music, looking after dachshunds, travel, and a host of other topics. Above all, when read together, Britten and Pears's letters allow the clearest possible look 'behind the scenes' of one of the most productive creative partnerships of the twentieth century.〈BR〉〈BR〉 VICKI P. STROEHER is Professor of Music History at Marshall University where she is also Coordinator of the Music History & Literature area.〈BR〉〈BR〉 NICHOLAS CLARK is the Librarian at the Britten-Pears Foundation at The Red House, Britten and Pears's home in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.〈BR〉〈BR〉 JUDE BRIMMER is an Archivist at the Britten-Pears Foundation.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jul 2016). , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Plates -- , Illustrations -- , Foreword -- , Acknowledgements -- , Editorial Note -- , Introduction. Britten and Pears’s ‘personal and consistent’ Correspondence -- , THE LETTERS -- , I ‘When I am not with you’ August 1937 to January 1941 -- , II ‘My life is inextricably bound up in yours’ May 1942 to November 1944 -- , III ‘I don’t know why we should be so lucky, in all this misery’ July 1945 to April 1949 -- , IV ‘You are potentially the greatest singer alive’ Late 1949 to January 1954 -- , V ‘Why shouldn’t I recognise that you are such a large part of my life’ May 1954 to December 1959 -- , VI ‘Far away as you are, at least I feel there is contact!’ January 1960 to March 1968 -- , VII ‘It is you who have given me everything’ January 1970 to June 1975 -- , VIII ‘My days are not empty’ January to November 1976 -- , Personalia -- , List of Works -- , Select Bibliography -- , General Index

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-78327-108-6

Language: English

Subjects: Musicology

DOI: 10.1515/9781782046295

URL: http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782046295/type/BOOK

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 452 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)

ISBN: 9781782046295

Series Statement: Aldeburgh studies in music

Uniform Title: Works Selections

Content: 'It's a life of the two of us.'〈BR〉〈BR〉 This volume comprises the complete surviving correspondence between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. The 365 letters written throughout their 39-year relationship are here brought together and published, as Pears intended, for the first time. While the correspondence provides valuable evidence of the development of Britten's works, more significant is theinsight into his relationship with Pears and their day-to-day life together. Entertaining to read, domestic and intimate, the letters provide glimpses of cultural and artistic life in the twentieth century, including pacifism and conscientious objection, critical assessments of music and other artists, transport and communications development in the twentieth century, the 'Aldeburgh corpses', artcollecting, gossip, everyday life in an English country house, the development of the Aldeburgh Festival, performance practice in early music, looking after dachshunds, travel, and a host of other topics. Above all, when read together, Britten and Pears's letters allow the clearest possible look 'behind the scenes' of one of the most productive creative partnerships of the twentieth century.〈BR〉〈BR〉 VICKI P. STROEHER is Professor of Music History at Marshall University where she is also Coordinator of the Music History & Literature area.〈BR〉〈BR〉 NICHOLAS CLARK is the Librarian at the Britten-Pears Foundation at The Red House, Britten and Pears's home in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.〈BR〉〈BR〉 JUDE BRIMMER is an Archivist at the Britten-Pears Foundation

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jul 2016)

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781783271085

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781783271085

Language: English

Subjects: Musicology

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