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Benjamin Britten was a famous English composer. He was born in 1913. He was only five when he started to play the piano and to compose music. By the time he was 19 he was already both a musician for a film company and a composer. He wrote music for the plays of several English writes.

In 1962 Benjamin Britten finished a very great musical work the “War Requiem”. In it the composer shows how much he wanted peace for all peoples.

He wrote music, compose operas and symphonies.

Benjamin Britten also wrote songs and operas for children. He wrote a piece of music called the “Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra”. It can be taken as a handbook on all the instruments of the orchestra. A teacher can use this music to teach children how to understand each of the instruments in an orchestra.

He died in 1976.

Peter Grimes - one of the first Britten’s operas

It is still widely performed, both in the UK and internationally, and is considered the part of the standard repertoire.

Peter Grimes is a fisherman, living in a small Suffolk town.

The War Requiem – a very great musical work

The War Requiem is a large-scale, non-liturgical setting of the Requiem composed by Benjamin Britten mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962.

The War Requiem was performed for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which was built after the original fourteenth-century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid.

The Requiem has a duration of approximately 90 minutes.

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) –the real friend of Benjamin Britten

He was a great poet. He was born in 1893. He saved in the Army and was killed in the action on the 4^th of November 1918 in France. Benjamin Britten devoted his work “The War Reqiem” to him.

On this slide you can read Britten’s music

Britten’s music

Billy Budd (1951)

Gloriana (1953)

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960)

Death in Venice (1973)

The Rape of Lucretia (1946)

Albert Herring (1947)

The Little Sweep (1949)

The Turn of the Screw (1954)

Noye's Fludde (1958)

Curlew River (1964)

The Burning Fiery Furnace (1966)

The Orchestral works

Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (1937)

The Symphony da Requiem (1940)

The Four Sea Interludes (1945)

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1945)

Made by: Angelina Chernousova the student of the 9^th form Pozhva school №1

Perm Krai Yusva district, Russia

13 January 2017

Edward Benjamin Britten

22 November 1913 –4 December 1976

Coventry Cathedral