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1. Add MS 60615

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82 (short score)
Scope & Content:
Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, including discarded passages. Dated by Britten: 'November 10th 1968' (f. 20v). Title page (f. 1): 'Kinderkreuzzug 1939 (Brecht) / For Boy's [sic] voices (solo & chorus) / 2 pianos & percussion / (with electric organ to support voices)'; list of voic...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1968
Extent:
1 volume (36 folios)

2. Add MS 60615-60616

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Add MS 60615-60616
Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82
Scope & Content:
In two volumes, an autograph short score and a partly autograph full score. Text by Bertolt Brecht. Set in German, and set separately in English (translation by Hans Keller). First performance: 19 May 1969, St Paul's Cathedral, London (relayed by BBC Radio 3).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1968-1969
Extent:
2 volumes

3. Add MS 60616

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Add MS 60616
Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Children's Crusade', op. 82 (full score)
Scope & Content:
A partly autograph music manuscript, in pencil, setting a text by Bertolt Brecht (translated by Hans Keller). Signed and dated by Britten: 'Aldeburgh October-November 1968' (f. 1), with an additional folio dated in a copyist's hand: 'Sept. '69' (f. 48). The volume comprises: title page (f. 1), ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and German
Date Range:
1968-1969
Extent:
1 volume (48 folios)