Презентация, доклад по английскому языку Известные британские музыканты.

theatrical performances
Hymns
Songs
Musical compositions

father - a dentist;
the youngest of four children (a brother and two sisters)
was educated locally;
studied first piano and then viola from private teachers;
began to compose in 1919;
entered the Royal College of Music in London in 1930;
won several prizes for his compositions;

for North America in 1939;
operas:
“Peter Grimes” (1945)
“Albert Herring” (1947)
“A Midsummer Night’s dream” (1960)
“Billy Budd” (1951)
“The Turn of the Screw”(1954)
“Death in Venice” (1973);
the War Requiem (1961);

P. Pears and E.Crozier.
The original intention was to provide a home for their opera company, the English Opera Group.
Soon literature, drama, lectures and art exhibitions were included.

1948;
developed close friendship with D.Shostakovich and M. Rostropovich in the 1960s;
awarded the Order of Merit in 1965;
created a Life Peer in 1976;
buried in the churchyard of the Aldeburgh Parish Church.

Edward Benjamin Britten

acting talents during his school days at Lancing College;
began his professional career with the BBC Singers in 1934;
an English singer;
met the composer Benjamin Britten in 1937;
shared three years in America (1939 – 1942) with B.Britten;
developed his career as a soloist, making his operatic debut in The Tales of Hoffman;
created the title role in Britten's Peter Grimes in 1945.