English composer, conductor, and pianist
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He was awarded CH (Companion of Honour) in the 1953 Queens Honours List; awarded OM (Order of Merit) in the 1965 Queens Honours List; and awarded a Life-Peerage (Baron/Lord) in the 1976 Queens Honours List for his services to music.
He has a school named after him in his birth town of Lowestoft.
Composition Pupil of Frank Bridge.
Godfather of Martin Phipps.
He allegedly declined Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire.
Co-founder of the Aldeburgh Festival.
A pacifist, Britten did not do military service in World War II but helped the wartime effort by presenting concerts.
English composer and pianist, best remembered for his contributions to opera. By the age of fourteen, he had written string quartets, piano sonatas, songs, a symphony and an oratorio.
In the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not,like, I am convinced it is my own fault. [Giuseppe] Verdi is one of,those composers.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
I am an arrogant and impatient listener but in the case of a few composers a very few when I hear a work I do not like I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers. .
