Paperback. Good. ISBN 1846142334 9781846142338 [GB]

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Penguin, Date: 2014-02-27. Paperback. Very Good. 3.3974 in x 19.3853 in x 12.7903 in. Penguin ISBN 1846142334 9781846142338 [GB]

ISBN10: 1846142334, ISBN13: 9781846142338, [publisher: Penguin Books Ltd] Softcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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Paperback / softback. New. Presents an account of Britten's life, exploring his deeply held and controversial pacifism; his complex forty-year relationship with Peter Pears; and his creation of an artistic community in Aldeburgh. This book helps us understand the relationship of Britten's music to his life, and takes us as far into its alchemy as we are ever likely to go. ISBN 1846142334 9781846142338 [GB]

ISBN10: 1846142334, ISBN13: 9781846142338, [publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Feb 2014] Softcover Neuware - Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer - now in paperbackBenjamin Britten was Britain's greatest twentieth-century composer, who broke decisively with figures such as Elgar and Vaughan Williams and recreated English music in a fresh, modern, European form. Paul Kildea's biography has been acclaimed as the definitive account of Britten's extraordinary life, exploring his deeply held and controversial pacifism; his complex forty-year relationship with Peter Pears; and his creation of an artistic community in Aldeburgh. Above all, however, this book helps us understand the relationship of Britten's music to his life, and takes us as far into its unique alchemy as we are ever likely to go.PAUL KILDEA is a writer and conductor who has performed many of the Britten works he writes about, in opera houses and concert halls from Sydney to Hamburg. His previous books include Selling Britten (2002) and (as editor) Britten on Music (2003). He was Head of Music at the Aldeburgh Festival between 1999 and 2002 and subsequently Artistic Director of the Wigmore Hall in London, and lives in Berlin.'Must now rank as the standard work' Financial Times'Indispensable . This is a masterly, highly readable account and the most comprehensive to date of the ...
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