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1. Add MS 60624-60625

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: Juvenilia
Scope & Content:
Two manuscript notebooks containing music written by Britten in his youth. The music comprises waltzes for piano and a Sonata in D Major for violin and piano.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1925
Extent:
2 manuscript notebooks

2. Add MS 60594-60595

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Add MS 60594-60595
Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Phantasy', quartet for oboe and strings, op. 2
Scope & Content:
Full score and parts. First performance: Leon Goossens and members of the International String Quartet, 6 August 1933, BBC National. First concert performance: 21 November 1933, Music Club, St John's Institute, London.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1932
Extent:
2 volumes

3. Add MS 60612-60613

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Curlew River', op. 71
Scope & Content:
A short score and a partly autograph full score. Libretto: William Plomer, from the medieval Japanese Nō play Sumidagawa by Jūrō Motomasa. First performance: 12 June 1964, Orford Church, Aldeburgh Festival. First broadcast: 21 June 1964 (BBC Third Programme).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1964
Extent:
2 volumes

4. Add MS 60615-60616

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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

5. Add MS 60602-60604

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'The Turn of the Screw', op. 54
Scope & Content:
Opera with libretto by Myfanwy Piper, after the novella by Henry James. A short score (autograph) in a single volume, and a full score (partly autograph) in two volumes. First performance: 14 September 1954, Teatro La Fenice, Venice (relayed by Radio Italiana, and by the BBC Third Programme).
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1954-1979
Extent:
3 volumes

6. Add MS 60601

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Abraham & Isaac or Canticle II', op. 51
Scope & Content:
Score, for alto and tenor voices and piano. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil (small additions in blue ink on f. 3v and on f. 9). Britten's initials on the title page (f. 1). Not dated. Text: from the Chester Miracle Play Histories of Lot and Abraham. First performance: 21 January 1952, Albert H...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1952]
Extent:
1 volume (10 folios)

7. Add MS 60605-60608

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: ''A Midsummer Night''s Dream'', op. 64
Scope & Content:
Opera in three acts. An autograph short score (''sketches'') in one volume, and a partly autograph full score in three volumes (1960), with later additions and annotations. Text adapted by Britten and Peter Pears from the play of the same name by William Shakespeare. First performance: Aldeburgh Fes...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1960-1978
Extent:
4 volumes

8. Add MS 60593

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'Sinfonietta for Ten Instruments', op. 1
Scope & Content:
Full score, for flute, oboe, clarinet in B flat, bassoon, horn in F, violin I, violin II, viola, violoncello, and double bass. Autograph music manuscript, in ink, with annotations in red crayon and hinged and pasted-down corrections. I. Poco presto e agitato (ff. 2v-22v); II. 'Variations': Andante l...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1932
Extent:
1 volume (70 folios)

9. Add MS 60609-60610

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Add MS 60609-60610
Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'War Requiem', op. 66
Scope & Content:
A non-liturgical setting of the requiem mass, for soprano, tenor, and baritone solos, chorus, orchestra, chamber orchestra, boys' choir and organ. Texts: the Missa pro Defunctis (Latin), and poems by Wilfred Owen. Dedicated to Roger Burney, Piers Dunkerley, David Gill and Michael Halliday. In two vo...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1961-1979
Extent:
2 volumes

10. Add MS 60620

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Title:
Benjamin Britten: 'String Quartet No. 3', op. 94
Scope & Content:
Score. Autograph music manuscript, in pencil, with Britten's initials to the title page (f. 1). Dated: 'Suffolk-Venice - Oct. Nov. 1975' (f. 16). The volume comprises: title page, with Britten's initials (f. 1); I 'Duets: With moderate movement' (ff. 2-4v); II 'Ostinato: Very fast' (ff. 5-7); III 'S...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1975
Extent:
1 volume (17 folios)