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Benjamin Britten Masterpieces

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Masterpieces Benjamin Britten

1913 - 1976

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2021

20th century

English composer, conductor, and pianist


  • piano
  • opera, symphony, Western classical music
  • United Kingdom
  • choreographer, composer, conductor, pianist, politician

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1913 - 1976

1000

1500

2021

20th century

English composer, conductor, and pianist


  • piano
  • opera, symphony, Western classical music
  • United Kingdom
  • choreographer, composer, conductor, pianist, politician

www

official website

wikipedia

Britanica

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Essential works

1913
Benjamin Britten
1976
130+ works listed
age 63
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The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell

Work for orchestra

1946

Peter Grimes

Opera

1945
1933

Simple Symphony

Work for orchestra

War Requiem

Work for choir

1961

The Turn of the Screw

Opera

1954

Creative activity

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 Duration of the works

(average or estimed)

 Number of works

1925

52 years

1976

 

Number of works

 

Duration of the works (average or estimed)

Vocal music
Instrumental music
Incidental music

Work for choir (32)

Song, lied (25)

Opera (16)

Work for soloist (11)

Work for chamber orchestra (18)

Work for orchestra (13)

Work for orchestra with soloist (7)

Ballet (2)

Film score (1)

Other renowned works

1971 - Death in Venice

1964 - Curlew River

1960 - A Midsummer Night's Dream

1951 - Billy Budd

1946 - The Rape of Lucretia

Compositions by Benjamin Britten (130+) ...

This selection of works is not the result of personal preferences or artistic opinion. Selected works come from an exclusive data analysis method developed by soclassiq.

The dating of the works can be precise or sometimes approximate. It may correspond to the premiere date or publication year or completion of the composition (that can be several years after its first public execution).

1910 .. 1970 : the essential composers

1882-1971 Igor Stravinsky °

1865-1957 Jean Sibelius °

1862-1918 Claude Debussy °

1858-1924 Giacomo Puccini °

1873-1943 Sergei Rachmaninoff °

1857-1934 Edward Elgar °

1928-2020 Ennio Morricone

1866-1925 Erik Satie °

1875-1937 Maurice Ravel °

1863-1945 Pietro Mascagni

1903-1989 Vladimir Horowitz

1881-1945 Béla Bartók °

° : Masterpieces listed

The 20th-century classical music greatest works

The 20th-century classical music composers

On stage or recorded, listen these essential works Benjamin Britten

Meet the greatest works of classical music

Currently, 25000+ works are listed for a small selection of 101 composers among thousands listed here. Many composers are missing of which some are essential: J. Rodriguo, C. Franck, H. Gorecki, C. Nielsen, J.Corigliano, P. Hindemith, C. Ives, A. Webern ... New catalogues will be processed later to complete this experience of the discovery of the classical music masterpieces. Thus this selection of works will be updated.

Composers with listed works ...


Vocal music

  • Work for choir
  • Song, lied
  • Opera

Incidental music

  • Ballet
  • Theatrical music
  • Film score

Instrumental music

  • Work for soloist
  • Work for chamber orchestra
  • Work for orchestra
  • Work for orchestra with soloist

Through the ages

10 centuries of classical music

  • 20th century
  • Romantic
  • Classical
  • Baroque
  • Renaissance

Some major genres or forms among the 150 listed

Concerto, Symphony, Rhapsody, Sonata, Lied, Mass, Suite, Trio, Quartet, Quintet, Waltz, March, Operetta, ...

Composed for piano, harpsichord, organ, violin, cello, viola, flute, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, string orchestra, string quartet, ...


The purpose of these pages is to point out few relevant works only among tens of thousands and to provide some chronological references.

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