#  Benjamin Britten 

 



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   ![Benjamin Britten](/sites/g/files/omnuum11456/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/poetry-at-harvard/files/britten.jpg?itok=UhrRLKjP) 

 

(1913-1976)*T*he Scallop, Aldeburgh beach, Suffolk. [Photograph by Terrence Davies](http://www.flickr.com/photos/melas13/2443235717/), available under a [Creative Commons license](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)

Maggi Hambling's sculptural tribute to Britten takes its text, "I hear those voices that will not be drowned," from *Peter Grimes*, an opera based on George Crabbe's poem "The Borough" (libretto adapted by Montagu Slater).



 

 Biographical Entries Collaborations Online Audio Other Resources 

## Biographical Entries

 

 

##  Biographical Entries 

   ![Harvard](/sites/g/files/omnuum11456/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/poetry-at-harvard/files/icon_harvard.jpg?itok=bQkIgKNB) 

 

[Grove Music Online](http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/subscriber/article/grove/music/46435)   ![Harvard](/sites/g/files/omnuum11456/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/poetry-at-harvard/files/icon_harvard.jpg?itok=bQkIgKNB) 

 

[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](http://www.oxforddnb.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/view/article/30853)

 



 

 

 

## Collaborations

 

 

##  Collaborations 

 [Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden](/britten-auden)



 



 

 

 

## Online Audio

 

 

##  Online Audio 

 [Naxos Music Library](http://harvard.naxosmusiclibrary.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/composer/btm.asp?composerid=27104)

 [Classical Music Library](http://clmu.alexanderstreet.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/Search/composerid/197939/genreid/) (not found)



 



 

 

 

## Other Resources

 

 

 [Britten-Pears Foundation](http://www.brittenpears.org/) (Britten estate and Britten-Pears Library; articles about Britten's life and works; online thematic catalogue (in progress); large archival collections)

 [BBC Audio Interviews: Benjamin Britten](http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/brittenb1.shtml) (excerpts from "The Composer Speaks," August 7, 1957, and "Radio Newsreel," November 21, 1963) (No longer available)

 [Images of Britten](http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?search=ss&sText=benjamin%20britten&LinkID=mp00560) (National Portrait Gallery)

 [Benjamin Britten: Poetry, Politics, and Sound](http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5801) (from poets.org; emphasis on *War Requiem*)

 [Britten](http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/b/britten.html) at the Lied and Art Song Texts Page

 [National Register of Archives](http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=P3551) (descriptions and links to archival collections)

 (Below not found - discovery.lib.harvard.edu)

 Ford, Boris, ed. [Benjamin Britten's Poets: The Poetry He Set to Music](http://discovery.lib.harvard.edu/?hreciid=%7Clibrary/m/aleph%7C004531130). Manchester, England: Carcenet, 1994. (anthology of texts, with notes on first performances)

 Hodgson, Peter J. [Benjamin Britten: A Guide to Research.](http://discovery.lib.harvard.edu/?hreciid=%7Clibrary/m/aleph%7C006979593) New York: Garland, 1996.