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Uses Britten's diaries, letters, and manuscripts to offer a personal glimpse of the British composer, discusses the impact of his homosexuality on his life, and looks at his major compositions
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Benjamin Britten by Humphrey Carpenter is a brilliant, enthralling biography of Benjamin Britten, one of twentieth-century Britain's greatest composers.
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Humphrey Carpenter was born and educated in Oxford, and attended the Dragon School and Keble College. He was a well-known biographer and children's writer, and worked previously as a producer at the BBC. He wrote biographies of J. R. R. Tolkien, W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Ezra Pound, C. S. Lewis and Dennis Potter. Among his many books for children were the best-selling Mr Majeika series. He also wrote several plays for the theatre and radio. A keen musician, he was a member of a 1930s-style jazz band, Vile Bodies, which was resident at the Ritz Hotel in London for a number of years. He died in 2005.
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- PublisherPrentice Hall & IBD
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0684195690
- ISBN 13 9780684195698
- BindingHardcover
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