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Britten, Edward Benjamin, (1913-1976), Baron Britten of Aldeburgh, composer

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Surname:	Britten
Forenames:	Edward Benjamin
Gender:	Male
Date:	1913-1976
Title:	Baron Britten of Aldeburgh
Places:	Aldeburgh, Suffolk Lowestoft, Suffolk
Biography:	ODNB link for Britten, Edward Benjamin (1913-1976) Composer
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P126187 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P3551 )
Online related resources	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Edward Benjamin Britten

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1950s-1980s: correspondence to Rita Thomson, friend and nurse to composer Benjamin Britten following his heart operation of 1973. Letters to her from Britten following his discharge report on his slow recovery and trouble writing and playing the piano. Sympathy letters on Britten's death thank Thomson for Britten's life during his last difficult years and for her devoted and skilled care of him.	Britten Pears Arts	TMS	See Annual Return 2019
2	1913-1986: music manuscripts, conducting scores, printed music, diaries, writings, draft librettos, corresp, photographs, personal and financial papers	Britten Pears Arts		See Foster & Sheppard British archives 1989; Annual Return 2016
3	letters	Oxford University: Merton College Library		See Oxford Libraries Outside the Bodleian
4	1972-75: compositions	British Library, Music Collections	Add MSS 60593-626; M881/1-5
5	MSS: Young Person's Guide, Michael Angelo Sonnets and How Blest are Shepherds	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library	OSBORN MUSIC MS	NRA 18661 Osborn coll
6	1973: MS of first Delphic hymn	University of Southampton Library	MS 23
7	1940-50: letters to Boosey & Hawkes	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Don d 162
8	1944-64: corresp with Lord Clark	Tate Gallery Archive	TGA 8812	NRA 32463 Clark
9	1940-1976: letters to Walter Hussey	West Sussex Record Office	Hussey	NRA 42362
10	c1963-1993: letters to Robert Saxton	British Library, Music Collections	Ms Mus. 1726	See Annual Return 2010
11	letters to William McKie concerning 1953 coronation music	Westminster Abbey Library and Muniment Room	McKie collection
12	1945: autograph manuscript of ‘The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’	British Library, Music Collections	MS Mus. 1769
13	c 1970-1986: letters to Dr Janet Tait	Britten Pears Arts	BBA	See Annual Return 2016
14	1971-1975: corresp with Charles Tait	Britten Pears Arts	BBA/TAIT_C	See Annual Return 2018
15	1945: Britten's music manuscript for his realisation of Purcell's The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation	Britten Pears Arts	BBM/the_blessed_virgins_expostulation/1/1	See Annual Return 2019
16	1960: music manuscript for Benjamin Britten's Fanfare for Oriana written as a 'theme tune' for the passenger liner Oriana serving the UK to Australia route and correspondence relating to the commissioning of the work by chairman of the Orient Line and patron of the arts, Sir Colin Anderson.	Britten Pears Arts	BBM/fanfare_for_oriana/1/4; BBA/ANDERSON_COLIN	See Annual Return 2019
17	c1946: score for Britten's Rape of Lucretia (corrected early edition)	Britten Pears Arts	BBM/the_rape_of_lucretia/3/6	See Annual Return 2019

Related record creators
	Record creator	Description of relationship	Dates	Category of relationship
1	Lutyens, Agnes Elisabeth, (1906-1983), composer	Lutyens and Britten worked together		Associative
2	Strode, Rosamund, (1927-2010), singer and musical assistant	Rosamund Strode was Benjamin Britten's music assistant from 1964 until his death in 1976, and then keeper of manuscripts at the Britten-Pears Library in Aldeburgh until 1992.		Associative

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