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Feb 7, 2013 · Paul Kildea's biography of the composer Benjamin Britten got off to a bad start by promising startling new revelations. The major one was the claim that Britten had, long ago, contracted syphilis ...
Feb 11, 2013 · Paul Kildea's erudite biography underplays Benjamin Britten's dark side. The hagiographic, the psychosexual, the paedocentric, the epistolary, the political, the musical:...
Feb 16, 2013 · Paul Kildea's book has caused titivation by suggesting that the composer's death was hastened by tertiary syphilis, a theory roundly denounced by medical experts and those surviving doctors who ...
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Kildea appears to be on the composer’s side, too, concerning his infatuations with young boys, even to the point of dismissing the evidence of Harry Morris, who cut short a holiday in Cornwall...
Feb 11, 2013 · Benjamin Britten is the greatest British composer of the 20th century. Yet there is no snug fit between him and any obvious form of national identity. "I am absolutely incapable of enjoying Elgar ...
Feb 16, 2013 · Published 16th Feb 2013, 00:00 BST. Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century. by Paul Kildea. Allen Lane, 688pp, £30. Britten, we learn here, may have been suffering from syphilis. It ...
Oct 29, 2013 · A new and comprehensive biography by Australian-born Britten scholar, administrator and conductor, Paul Kildea, is a worthy addition to the already significant pile of biographies and scholarly tomes on the composer. And it comes with a new controversy. Kildea postulates that Britten died from tertiary-stage syphilis, rather than the heart ...
