With it Britten has emerged as England’s greatest composer since Henry Purcell (16597-95) and, among this generation’s composers, the only active peer of Dmitry Shostakovich. Since his opera ...

This year, among many other occasions, marks A Century since the birth of the English composer Benjamin Britten. Although the centenary date isn't until the end of the year numerous organisations have ...

Benjamin Britten was an English composer who was born and lived in Suffolk. He started composing as a child and by the age of 18 he'd written more than 700 pieces! He wrote the opera 'Peter Grimes ...

In 1939, Britten fled to the US where, for a time, he house-shared with fellow musicians, writers and a burlesque dancer, as Philip Clark reveals... Read more England’s most significant composer in ...

"Benjamin Britten wanted to be remembered as a composer who served his community, and it's fitting that our final fundraising event was a community bake sale at Lowestoft's Kirkley Centre.

to Benjamin Britten who breathed new life into the form. Monteverdi was an Italian composer who was a pioneer in the development of opera. Before Monteverdi came along the fledgling genre of opera ...

“People say, ‘Why do you like Britten so much? Why do you think he’s such a great composer?’ I’m not in love with his music because he writes in code or because he’s a pacifist or ...

Holst was prominent as a composer, conductor, writer on music, teacher, administrator and artistic director. She also worked as an amanuensis to Benjamin Britten. As the daughter of Gustav Holst ...

A group of London-based choir boys that were conducted by British composer Benjamin Britten has reunited 61 years after they ...

The bronze statue will be a life-sized figure of Britten as a boy sitting on top of a wooden groyne A fundraising campaign for a statue to commemorate composer Benjamin Britten in the town of his ...

As for that name Oldham, I tend to associate it not so much with Arthur but with William Walton, who was born in Oldham and ...

While many musicians were fleeing Europe ahead of the cataclysm of World War II, Benjamin Britten was returning to the United Kingdom from a sojourn in the United States. Just before doing so in 1939, ...