Britten
"Peter Grimes" creator
Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) was an English composer and conductor, among the most significant British classical composers of the twentieth century.
He is best known for operas including *Peter Grimes* and *The Turn of the Screw*, and for choral works like the *War Requiem*.
His name sometimes appears in discussions of twentieth-century music alongside Shostakovich and Copland.
Male name, means rock
- operaTheatrical art combining song
- GrimesCanadian electronic music artist
- Death in VeniceNovella about doomed infatuation
- Midsummer Night's DreamShakespearean fairy romantic comedy
Billy Budd · vocal · orchestral · choral · libretto · Pears · twentieth-century · English
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- SuffolkCounty containing Ipswich
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- concert hallVenue for orchestral performances
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- AudenAnglo-American modernist poet
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Peter
Male name, means rock
- operaTheatrical art combining song
- GrimesCanadian electronic music artist
- Death in VeniceNovella about doomed infatuation
Billy Budd · Midsummer Night's Dream · vocal · orchestral · choral · libretto · Pears · twentieth-century · English · modernist
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Organized public celebration
- SuffolkCounty containing Ipswich
- seasideCoastal recreational area
- concert hallVenue for orchestral performances
coastal · English countryside · summer · chamber music · recitals · premiere · pilgrimage · marshes · North Sea · artistic community
Pears
Historic soap surname
partnership · dedication · premiere · commission · interpretation · performance · singer · accompanist · muse · correspondence
- ComposersBach, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Haydn
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- vocal musicsong, vocals, soprano, tenor, alto
- Modern ClassicalStravinsky, Schoenberg, Bartok, Shostakovich, Prokofiev
- Opera Worldopera, Wagner, Verdi, Puccini, Mozart