Benjamin Britten: New Perspectives on His Life and Work

by Lucy Walker

An essay collection which examines Britten's juvenilia, influences such as Shostakovich and Verdi, his opera Owen Wingrave and a libretto written by Australian novelist Patrick White with the hope of a future collaboration.

Benjamin Britten: New Perspectives on his Life and Work reveals the extent to which Britten scholarship is reaching outside the confines of Anglo-American criticism. The volume engages with juvenilia and other orchestral...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843835169
• ISBN13: 9781843835165
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"