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Benjamin Britten Biography

Benjamin Britten was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, on the east coast of England, on 22 November 1913. Although he was already composing vigorously as a child, he nonetheless felt the importance of some solid guidance and in 1928 turned to the composer Frank Bridge; two years later he went to the Royal College of Music in London, studying with Arthur Benjamin, Harold Samuel and John Ireland. While still a student, he wrote his "official" Op. 1, the Sinfonietta for chamber ensemble, and the Phantasy Quartet for oboe and string trio, and in 1936 he composed Our Hunting Fathers, an ambitious song-cycle for soprano and orchestra, which confirmed Britten's virtuosic vocal and instrumental technique. He was already earning his living as a composer, having joined the GPO (Post Office) Film Unit the previous year; the collaboration he began there with the poet W. H. Auden was to prove an important one throughout his career.

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Britten Biographical Information

Early Life

Benjamin Britten was born in Lowestoft, England, on November 22, 1913 - St. Cecilia's Day. His earliest exposure to music came from his mother, who was an amateur singer. He began composing his first works at the age of five, and produced prolifically throughout his childhood, despite his lack of musical guidance. When he was six, he wrote a play, "The Royal Falily" [sic]; it was about the death of Prince John, the fifth son of George V, at the age of 13 in 1919. He would compose before breakfast, to have time to go to school. As a young boy he enjoyed mathematics, and was the captain of the cricket team. When he was eleven, Britten was discovered by Frank Bridge, a composer who had recently become interested in experimental styles and the work of Bartók and Schoenberg. Bridge gave Britten a technical foundation on which to base his creativity and introduced him to a wide range of composers from many different countries.

In 1930, Britten entered the Royal College of Music to study piano and composition under Harold
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Benjamin Britten (born on St Cecilia’s Day in 1913, passing away from heart failure in 1976), worked his way up from “very ordinary middle class” beginnings in a fishing town in Suffolk to become “Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH”, and was one of the most famous twentieth-century composers in the world. He deserves a biography each for his roles as pianist, festival administrator, and conductor — not just composer. But it is through his compositions that he will live on most memorably, and apart from brief, introductory stops at The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra and Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, most especially his operas, which have made him far and away the most important operatic composer born in the twentieth century.

In his chapter on Britten in Surprised by Beauty, Robert R. Reilly wrote: “Britten may be the figure of his generation in the pantheon of the English neo-Renaissance whose music will be heard two centuries from now. He was the first English composer since Purcell, two and a hal