Research Catalog

Title

Britten : essays, letters and opera guides / Hans Keller ; edited by Christopher Wintle and A.M. Garnham, with Ines Schlenker and Kate Hopkins ; with drawings by Milein Cosman.

Author

Keller, Hans, 1919-1985

Publication

London : Plumbago Books ; Woodbridge, Suffolk [England] ; Rochester, NY : Distributed by Boydell & Brewer, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Cosman Keller Art and Music Trust.
• Cosman, Milein.
• Garnham, A. M. (Alison M.), 1964-
• Hopkins, Kate.
• Schlenker, Ines.
• Wintle, Christopher.

Description

xx, 381 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Hans Keller archive

Uniform Title

Hans Keller archive.

Alternative Title

Hans Keller: Britten

Subject

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 > Criticism and interpretation

Note

• Published in association with the Cosman Keller Art and Music Trust.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-368) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

On and around the music (Hans Keller): Great English composer ; A film analysis of the orchestra (on The young person's guide) ; The second string quartet ; Peter Grimes at Covent Garden (review) ; The rape of Lucretia (reviews, 1946-50) ; The first Aldeburgh Festival ; Britten and the young (on Let's make an opera) ; Resistances to Britten's music : their psychology ; Night mail ; Britten's art of accompaniment ; Thematic relations (on the 'mad interlude' in Peter Grimes) ; The problem of taste in opera (on Albert Herring) ; The musical character (subsuming Britten and Mozart) ; Holland: music's new-found land (on The turn of the screw) ; The fishing Englishman in Holland (on Peter Grimes) ; Sinfonia da requiem (1) ; Sinfonia da requiem (2) (on 'Key, ostinato, row') ; Peter Grimes revived ; A midsummer night's dream ; The world around Britten (on Britten at 50) ; Billy Budd (on the two versions) ; Britten's new opera (on Curlew River) ; Stravinsky and Britten via Schoenberg (book review) ; Gloriana as music drama ; Children's crusade ; Why this piece is about Billy Budd ; Britten and Reger (on two radio transmissions) ; Death of a genius ; Sacred music in a secular age (on the War requiem) ; Operatic music and Britten ; The third string quartet ; The string quartets -- An operatic sketchbook (Milein Cosman): Britten and Cosman (Ines Schlenker) ; An operatic sketchbook (with a list of drawings) -- Britten and Keller : letters and life (A.M. Garnham) -- Appendices (Hans Keller): Peter Grimes : the story; the music not excluded (notes for a recording) ; The rape of Lucretia (Covent Garden opera guide) ; Albert Herring (Covent Garden opera guide) ; The beggar's opera (introductory essay).

ISBN

• 9780956600745 (hardback)
• 0956600743 (hardback)
• 9780956600752 (softback)
• 0956600751 (softback)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library