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3 days ago · Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera Peter Grimes (1945 ...
- List of Compositions by Benjamin Britten
Libretto by the composer and Peter Pears, after the play by...
- The Young Person's Guide to The Orchestra
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34, is a 1945...
- Peter Grimes
Peter Grimes, Op. 33, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin...
- John Ireland
John Nicholson Ireland (13 August 1879 – 12 June 1962) was...
- List of Compositions by Benjamin Britten
1 day ago · Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( / ˈkoʊlərɪdʒ / KOH-lə-rij; [1] 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb ...
3 days ago · Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (/ ˈ ɛ l ɡ ɑːr / ⓘ; 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire.
May 8, 2024 · William Boyce (baptized Sept. 11, 1711, London, Eng.—died Feb. 7, 1779, London) was one of the foremost English composers of church music, known also for his symphonies and stage music, and as an organist and musical editor.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 10, 2024 · The Society for Eighteenth-Century Music is pleased to launch two new resources for the teaching of eighteenth-century music: DEIB Teaching Resources for Music and Musical Examples by 18th-century BIPOC Composers. These resources promote diversity, equity, and belonging and we hope they will expand the ways we teach and think about eighteenth ...
May 9, 2024 · Sir Lennox Berkeley (born May 12, 1903, Boars Hill, near Oxford, Oxfordshire, Eng.—died Dec. 26, 1989, London) was a British composer whose works are noted for their light textures and piquant harmonies.
May 22, 2024 · Resisting any simplified solution, Thomas Jefferson, the Classical World, and Early America exhibits the dualism of normative vs. illustrative (or, if you prefer, foundational vs. window-dressing) as a basic fact of America's communal identity. In so doing, the volume steps out of two well-established historiographical traditions.
