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2 days ago · Benjamin Britten. 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 ...
- List of Compositions by Benjamin Britten
Op. 88, Death in Venice, opera (libretto by Myfanwy Piper,...
- The Young Person's Guide to The Orchestra
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34, is a 1945...
- War Requiem
The War Requiem, Op. 66, is a British choral and orchestral...
- 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
2 days ago · Edward Elgar, c. 1900. Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO ( / ˈɛlɡɑːr / ⓘ; [1] 2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the ...
4 days ago · Andrea McKenzie begins her preface to Tyburn's Martyrs by attempting to locate the 18th-century Tyburn execution in the broader modern cultural context.It is, she contends, the most familiar and evocative image from that century, synonymous with the brutality of a past age and viewed as a grotesque spectator sport to which horror and disgust seem to be the sole appropriate responses for modern ...
2 days ago · Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March [O.S. 21 March] 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.He is known for his prolific authorship of music across a variety of instruments and forms, including; orchestral music such as the Brandenburg Concertos; solo instrumental works such as the cello suites and sonatas and partitas for solo violin; keyboard works ...
3 days ago · The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century. London, I. B. Tauris, 2011, ISBN: 9781845114404; 240pp.; Price: £24.50. David Hempton’s latest book is the best, most authoritative, and most imaginative overview of the history of the world-wide Christian Church in the period between the late 17th and early 19th centuries we have to date.
3 days ago · Despite a certain academic heaviness, with no fewer than fifty-seven pages of notes, bibliography and index, and despite an occasionally disagreeable academic vocabulary, of which more anon, this book has a pleasantly simple knock-down argument, that Christianity in Britain enjoyed a long nineteenth century of prosperity, between 1800 and 1960, and only began to go into terminal decline in the ...
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3 days ago · 15. Wendy Carlos. Renowned as one of the most important composers in the field of electronic music and sound design, Wendy Carlos has carved out a significant niche in modern musical history. Born in 1939 as Walter Carlos, her musical journey began with piano lessons at an early age.
