"Benjamin Britten wanted to be remembered as a composer who served his community, and it's fitting that our final fundraising ...

Benjamin Britten was an English composer who was born and lived in Suffolk. He started composing as a child and by the age of 18 he'd written more than 700 pieces! He wrote the opera 'Peter Grimes ...

The former home of a renowned composer and conductor has been protected ... and historical significance. Holst became Benjamin Britten's musical assistant - who was also from Suffolk - and in ...

Read more England’s most significant composer in the second half of the 20th ... John Ireland was his composition teacher; Arthur Benjamin (of Jamaica Rumba fame) taught him piano. Britten’s unique ...

Imogen Holst was also a composer and for 12 years she worked as an assistant to Benjamin Britten in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. In 1952, she was invited to help Britten as he worked on the opera Gloriana ...

A statue of Benjamin Britten as a boy "is in the factory being ... will be installed near the seafront in the Oscar-winning composer's hometown of Lowestoft, Suffolk, after £110,000 was raised.

In 1952, Holst was invited to assist composer Benjamin Britten on his opera, Gloriana, a work which marked the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Holst later became the artistic director of the mainly ...

but classical music lovers will know it best as the home of 20th–century composer Benjamin Britten. The composer, conductor and pianist, best known for the epic War Requiem, founded the annual ...

If Curlew River is the best and most moving of Britten's three church parables, The Burning Fiery Furnace is the most colourful and exotic. It also has humour; and Nebuchadnezzar gave Sir Peter Pears ...

Martin Handley talks to Paul Kildea about Britten and his place in 20th-Century music ...