Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976: Volume Five: 1958-1965

by Philip Reed

This fifth volume of Britten's letters covers a period of intense activity in his life and works, culminating in his great pacifist choral masterpiece, War Requiem.

The fifth volume of the annotated selected letters of Benjamin Britten - edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke - covers the years 1958-65, during which he wrote two major operatic works, A Midsummer Night's Dream and the ground-breaking Curlew River, and his pacifist choral masterpiece,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843835916
• ISBN13: 9781843835912
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 830 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"