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Britten, Edward Benjamin, 1913-1976 (composer, conductor and pianist)

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Dates

  • Existence: 1913 - 1976

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

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Benjamin Britten (1913-76)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8959/36-42
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Including Benjamin Britten [with a letter to Hedli Anderson (1974)], arrangers or copyists Walter Bergmann, Frank Collinson, Hanns Eisler, Norman Franklin, Michael Jessett, Herbert Murrill, Michael C. Pilkington, and Ferdinand Rauter.

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): `Up in a balloon', by G.W. Hunt, arranged by Benjamin Britten, for voice and piano, lacking most words

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8959/8
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With copy arrangement in 8 parts (2 violins, cello, bass, flute, oboe, clarinet in B flat, 2 trumpets, trombone); published score, G.W. Hunt, One night I went up in a balloon, London (Hopwood and Crew), [1868], lacking front cover and part of last page; score, voice only, `Up in a balloon', adapted by H.B. Farnie (`I am as you know a Madison belle'), copied by Hedli Anderson, with additional copy of words only.

Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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British Petroleum Calendar, 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/1/2/2/3
Scope and Contents A British Petroleum Festivals '65 calendar. Each month features artwork and a written section, which relate to a particular festival held in the British Isles, including: Helly Aa in the Shetland Isles, Eisteddfod in Wales, and Pitlochry Fesitval in Scotland. The calendar page for September is illustrated by Roger Law, featuring a woodcut print design of German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach, and an organ. Accompanying the artwork is a short written passage by...
Dates: Publication: 1964
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Sub-Fonds: See sub-level descriptions for any information on access restrictions or closures of material.
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Hans Keller: Music manuscripts

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9371
Scope and Contents

MS music compositions, sketches, 'functional analyses'; also a composition by Judith Bingham (1981), first proof opers vocal score of Benjamin Britten's 'The turn of the screw', amended by [Britten], [Imogen Holst] and [Keller] (c.1955); vocal score of Britten's 'War Requiem', pre-publication dye-line, not published in this form, with amendments possibly by Britten (1961); André Chaikowsky, 'Trio notturno for violin, violoncello and piano', MS score (1978).

Dates: 1958-1981 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Melford Festival, 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/1/2/1/3/6/4
Scope and Contents A hardboard woodcut that contains a print design, which was used in promotional material to advertise the Melford Festival. The design features a representation of German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach, next to an organ, with some kind of settlement in the background (perhaps Long Melford). The print design/advertisement for the festival was used in British Petroleum's 1965 festivals calendar, and also appeared in various publications throughout 1964, including The...
Dates: 1964
Conditions Governing Access: Restricted. Not available for consultation. Please contact repository.
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Miscellaneous Magazines, 1961 - 1974

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275/1/2/2/1/18
Scope and Contents A box containing issues of various publications, along with proofs and tearsheets from other outlets, all of which feature illustrations by Roger Law. The following items are present:1. March-April 1972 (Vol. 2 No. 2) issue of the American literary journal, Audience, which features a plasticine model illustration on pages 38-39 (RL/Pre-/939). 2. November 1973 issue of the Dutch magazine, Avenue, which features a...
Dates: Publication: 1961 - 1974
Conditions Governing Access: From the Sub-Sub-Fonds: See sub-level descriptions for any information on access restrictions or closures of material.
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Other correspondents (B), 1936-1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/C1/13
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These are: Christian Barman, Charles Batey, Mrs. Bedaux, Leonard Beaumont, Jack Beddington, Jack Bickel, Rae Biemiller, Billy Birkett, Michael Birkett, Norman Birkett, Basil Blackwell, Douglas Percy Bliss, Christopher Bradshaw, C. E. Brendon, British Soviet Friendship Society (Colin Williams), Benjamin Britten, Dora Brody, Lady Brook, Anthony E. Brooks, I. W. Burch, Philip A. Burgoyne, and C. W. Byford.

Dates: 1936-1967
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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