TY - BOOK ID - 85467498 TI - My beloved man : the letters of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears AU - Britten, Benjamin AU - Pears, Peter AU - Stroeher, Vicki P. AU - Clark, Nicholas AU - Brimmer, Jude PY - 2016 SN - 1782046291 1783271086 PB - Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, DB - UniCat KW - Britten, Benjamin, KW - Pears, Peter, KW - Pirz, Piter, KW - Пирз, Питер, KW - Friends and associates. KW - England. KW - Angleterre KW - Anglii͡ KW - Anglija KW - Engeland KW - Inghilterra KW - Inglaterra KW - Britten, Edward Benjamin KW - Britten, Benjamin KW - Britten, Benjamin E. KW - Composers KW - Tenors (Singers) KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians. KW - Britain. KW - English history. KW - English music. KW - Ireland. KW - biography. KW - diaries. KW - friendship. KW - history of English music. KW - letters. KW - memoir. KW - music history. KW - musicians. KW - musicology. KW - primary sources. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85467498 AB - 'It's a life of the two of us.'
This volume comprises the complete surviving correspondence between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. The 365 letters written throughout their 39-year relationship are here brought together and published, as Pears intended, for the first time. While the correspondence provides valuable evidence of the development of Britten's works, more significant is theinsight into his relationship with Pears and their day-to-day life together. Entertaining to read, domestic and intimate, the letters provide glimpses of cultural and artistic life in the twentieth century, including pacifism and conscientious objection, critical assessments of music and other artists, transport and communications development in the twentieth century, the 'Aldeburgh corpses', artcollecting, gossip, everyday life in an English country house, the development of the Aldeburgh Festival, performance practice in early music, looking after dachshunds, travel, and a host of other topics. Above all, when read together, Britten and Pears's letters allow the clearest possible look 'behind the scenes' of one of the most productive creative partnerships of the twentieth century.
VICKI P. STROEHER is Professor of Music History at Marshall University where she is also Coordinator of the Music History & Literature area.
NICHOLAS CLARK is the Librarian at the Britten-Pears Foundation at The Red House, Britten and Pears's home in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
JUDE BRIMMER is an Archivist at the Britten-Pears Foundation. ER -