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

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1913 - 1976

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

 File

Benjamin Britten (1913-76)

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8959/36-42
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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).
 File

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): `Up in a balloon', by G.W. Hunt, arranged by Benjamin Britten, for voice and piano, lacking most words

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8959/8
Scope and Contents

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).
 Fonds

Hans Keller: Music manuscripts

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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Other correspondents (B), 1936-1967

Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9813/C1/13
Scope and Contents

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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