The Making of Peter Grimes: The Facsimile of Britten's Composition Draft (Two-volume set) (Aldeburgh Studies in Music) - Image 1

£113.62

Boydell Press The Making of Peter Grimes: The Facsimile of Britten's Composition Draft (Two-volume set) (Aldeburgh Studies in Music)

Name: The Making of Peter Grimes: The Facsimile of Britten's Composition Draft (Two-volume set) (Aldeburgh Studies in Music)
Brand: Boydell Press
Price: 168.87 GBP
Availability: InStock

Classical Music

Price History & Forecast

Last 88 days • 88 data points

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 88 days • 8 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £169 (17 days, 19.3%)

Price range: £114 - £179

Price levels: 8 different prices over 88 days

Description

Facsimile of the composition draft of Peter Grimes, showing Britten's compositional method; companion volume containing essays on its history and significance. Peter Grimes, Benjamin Britten's first opera, established his stature as a composer, marked a turning point in the fortunes of English opera, and conquered operatic stages around the world. Though its setting and music reflect Britten's greatlove for his native East Anglia, the inspiration for the work was a chance encounter with the poetry of George Crabbe while Britten and the tenor Peter Pears (who eventually created the title role) were stayingin California in 1941; they made a number of draft scenarios while they waited for a passage to England, and after their return Montagu Slater was asked to write the libretto. The full score was completed by February 1945. The single document that reveals most about the work's creative history is the composition draft in which the composer wrestled with text and music, gradually fashioning the opera into its final version. The colour facsimile of this fascinating manuscript is published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its first production. It is accompanied by a commentary volume containing a series of essays on the work's history and its contemporary significance by leading Britten scholars, together with a brief note on the work by PETER PEARS(apparently never before published) and an account of the first production by the late ERIC CROZIER, who directed it. The volume is illustrated with colour reproductions of some of the original costume designs by Kenneth Green, his portrait of BenjaminBritten, and contemporary black and white photographs.

Product Specifications

Brand: Boydell Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0851156320
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Music > Styles > Classical Music
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 31 July 1996
Listed Since: 08 January 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Boydell Press The Making of Peter Grimes: The Facsimile of Britten's Composition Draft (Two-volume set) (Aldeburgh Studies in Music)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Scene and the Unseen: Opera in Pictures. Photographs by Monika Rittershaus: Oper in Bildern. Fotografien von Monika Rittershaus

Routledge - Peter Grimes (The Fourth Wall) by Sam Kinchin-Smith

1856–1859: Band 7 1856-1859

Ruth Gipps: Anti-Modernism, Nationalism and Difference in English Music

Staging Scenes from the Operascb: A Guide for Directors and Performers

Ideology in Britten's Operas (Music since 1900)

Performing Opera: A Practical Guide for Singers and Directors (Performance Books)

Believing in Opera: 356 by Princeton University Press

CLASSICAL MUSIC COMPOSITIONS PIANO AND VOICES

Alan Rawsthorne: A Bio-Bibliography: 97 (Bio-Bibliographies in Music)

Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination

Giuseppe Verdi at Macerata Opera Festival [Blu-ray] [2022] [NTSC]

Twentieth-Century British Authors and the Rise of Opera in Britain

A Short History of Opera

Character Sketch: A Drawing Course for Costume Designers

Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays on An Inexplicit Art (Aldeburgh Studies in Music)

The Last Opera: "The Rake’s Progress" in the Life of Stravinsky and Sung Drama (Russian Music Studies)

Start-up at the New Met: The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts, 1966-1976 (Amadeus)

Narratives of Identity in Alban Berg's "Lulu" (Eastman Studies in Music)

Paul Dukas: Composer and Critic

The Music of Frederick Delius: Style, Form and Ethos

Huju: Traditional Opera in Modern Shanghai (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs)

Franz Lehár oder das schlechte Gewissen der leichten Musik: 12 (Theatron)

Leoncavallo: Life and Works