Benjamin Britten
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Benjamin Britten

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Benjamin BrittenBenjamin Britten ranks among the most universal composers in music history. His oeuvre is characterized by a deep humanitarianism, while at the same time testifying to his fascination for the ambivalent. Norbert Abels presents the first comprehensive guide to Britten's life and work in German. Based on his many years as a renowned opera dramaturg, he looks especially at all facets of the musical theatre works by the 'Orpheus britannicus' but also at

Benjamin Britten ranks among the most universal composers in music history. His oeuvre is characterized by a deep humanitarianism, while at the same time testifying to his fascination for the ambivalent. Norbert Abels presents the first comprehensive guide to Britten's life and work in German. Based on his many years as a renowned opera dramaturg, he looks especially at all facets of the musical theatre works by the 'Orpheus britannicus' but also at his songs, his sacred works, the compositions for children, his music for film, theatre and radio, as well as the chamber music. This profound overview contains the most recent biographical research as well as classifications in the history of ideas.Norbert Abels, born in 1953, has been head dramaturg of the Opera of Frankfurt since 1997 and guest dramaturg at numerous international theatres since 1985. He studied literary studies and musicology, philosophy and Jewish studies at the Frankfurt Goethe University. He is professor at the Folkwang Universität der Künste as well as lecturer of world literature at the Mediacampus Frankfurt and of cultural and theatre history at the Frankfurt Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst and at the Frankfurt Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. Among his publications are numerous books on literary, theatre and musical theatre history, including Ohrentheater (2009) and Notenlese (2016). In addition, he has published books on Britten, Büchner, Schnitzler, Henze, Verdi, Wagner, and Werfel as well as studies on German-Jewish poetry. Since 2006, Norbert Abels has been a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste (German Academy of Performing Arts).

Vorwort - Ostinato des Meeres: Kindheit in Lowestoft - Familie - Etüden und Variationen - Der Mentor: Frank Bridge -Internatszeit: fremd und klein - Am Royal College of Music - Die ersten Aufführungen - „Das Einzige, was mich interessierte“ - „Schönheit ist Wahrheit“: Musik für Film, Theater und Radio: Dokumentarfilme - „Ein erstaunlicher Mann“: W. H. Auden - Masken des Eros - Erste Bühnenkompositionen - The Company of Heaven - „Europa liegt im Dunkeln“ - Exil in den USA: Der „Raum der Zukunft“? - Paul Bunyan: Ein Riesenwerk - Sinfonia da Requiem - What harbour shelters peace?: Rückkehr nach England - Die Lager - Peter Grimes und The Rape of Lucretia - Aldeburgh oder Immer bekomme ich Heimweh...: Die Landschaft - Das Aldeburgh Festival und die Britten-Pears Foundation - Die Lieder: Eine lange Passion - Die Folksongs - Our Hunting Fathers - On This Island - Cabaret Songs - Les Illuminations - Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo - Serenade für Tenor, Horn und Streicher - The Holy Sonnets of John Donne - Winter Words - Songs from the Chinese - Nocturne - Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente - Songs and Proverbs of William Blake - The Poet’s Echo - Who are these Children? - Die Opern: Peter Grimes: Die Bodenlosigkeit des Outcast - The Rape of Lucretia: Erlebte Selbstauslöschung - Albert Herring: Der Tugendheld als Muttersöhnchen - Billy Budd: Ein Segel im Sturm - Gloriana: Ein Staatswerk als Kammerspiel - The Turn of the Screw: Die entzauberte Kinderwelt - A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Im erotischen Dickicht - Owen Wingrave: Ein pazifistisches Manifest - Death in Venice: Liebe, rettungslos - Das geistliche Werk: Der Komponist in der Gemeinde - Saint Nicolas - War Requiem - Die Kirchenparabeln - Curlew River - The Burning Fiery Furnace - The Prodigal Son - Das Werk für Kinder: Die Sphäre der Kinderzeit - The Little Sweep - Noye’s Fludde - The Golden Vanity - Children’s Crusade - Die Kammermusik: Von der Phantasy bis zum Nocturnal - Die Cello-Werke - Reisen: Das Land der Kindheit - The Prince of the Pagodas - My time's too short: Das Verrinnen der Sanduhr - „Liebe ist blind“ - Suite on English Folk Tunes - Phaedra - Die letzten Tage

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