In his views on the music of other composers, Benjamin Britten had strong preferences, and his particularly active life as a performer meant that these preferences were often expressed in his programming choices, in particular for his own Aldeburgh Festival. Four composers in particular (Purcell, Bach, Mozart, and Schubert) received special attention and two others (Verdi and Mahler) received as much as possible given the limitations of resources at the Festival.<\/p>\n
He also showed his admiration for these composers in the way in which he allowed these programmed works to influence his own compositions. This book frames discussion of each composer and his influence around the relationship between a particular work by Britten and a particular one by the composer concerned that was performed by Britten at approximately the same time.<\/p>\n
Thus, Britten\u2019s Second String Quartet (1945) is compared with Purcell\u2019s Chacony in G minor<\/em>. The chamber operas The Rape of Lucretia<\/em> (1946) and Albert Herring<\/em> (1947) owe much to Verdi\u2019s Otello<\/em> and Falstaff<\/em>. The song cycle Winter Words<\/em> (1953) relates to Schubert\u2019s Winterreise<\/em>. War Requiem<\/em> (1962) is influenced by Bach\u2019s two Passions. Night Piece<\/em> for piano (1963) connects to the second \u201cNachtmusik\u201d from Mahler\u2019s Seventh Symphony. Finally, parallels exist between the opera Death in Venice<\/em> (1973) and Mozart\u2019s Idomeneo<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":4766,"template":"","subject":[38],"browse_by_series":[40],"browse_by_imprints":[],"conference":[],"class_list":["post-4765","books","type-books","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-music","browse_by_series-studies-in-british-musical-cultures-series"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/4765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/4765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5580,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/4765\/revisions\/5580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_series?post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_imprints","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_imprints?post=4765"},{"taxonomy":"conference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conference?post=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}