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Offering a charming magazine photo of musical genius BENJAMIN BRITTEN .. A nice CASUAL pose near his home in Aldeburgh with the new concert hall in the background... He has hand signed the photo in blue ink in the upper right corner " BENJAMIN BRITTEN " The autograph is guaranteed to be authentically hand signed in ink CONDITION : GOOD .... The MAGAZINE color photo measures 8 " x 7 1/4 "..It has been neatly clipped from a magazine ..T is a very light crease at the upper right corner not affecting the signature. ,The Reverse has part of a printed magazine article that doesn't affect the photo of Britten on the other side. .... Questions will be answered promptly but please don't ask for reserve price.. Benjamin Britten From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh , OM CH ( 22 November 1913 âe" 4 December 1976 ) was a British composer , conductor , violist , and pianist .Britten was born in Lowestoft in Suffolk , the son of a dentist and a talented amateur musician. His birthday, 22 November , is the feast-day of Saint Cecilia , the patron saint of music, and he showed musical gifts very early in life. He began composing prolifically as a child, and was educated at Old Buckenham Hall School in Suffolk , a small all-boys prep school , and Gresham's School , Holt . In 1927, he began private lessons with Frank Bridge . He also studied, less happily, at the Royal College of Music under John Ireland and with some input from Ralph Vaughan Williams . Although ultimately held back by his parents (at the suggestion of College staff), Britten had also intended to study with Alban Berg in Vienna. His first compositions to attract wide attention were the Sinfonietta (Op.1), "A Hymn to the Virgin" (1930) and a set of choral variations A Boy was Born , written in 1934 for the BBC Singers . The following year he met W. H. Auden with whom he collaborated on the song-cycle Our Hunting Fathers , radical both in politics and musical treatment, and other works. Of more lasting importance was his meeting in 1937 with the tenor Peter Pears , who was to become his musical collaborator and inspiration as well as his life partner.Britten developed close friendships with Dmitri Shostakovich and Mstislav Rostropovich in the 1960s, composing his Cello Suites , Cello Symphony and Cello Sonata for the latter and conducting the first Western performance of the former's Fourteenth Symphony ; Shostakovich dedicated the score to Britten and often spoke very highly of his music. Britten himself had previously dedicated 'The Prodigal Son' (the third and last of the 'Church Parables') to Shostakovich.In the last decade or so of his life, Britten suffered from increasing ill-health and his late works became progressively more sparse in texture. They include the opera Death in Venice (1973), the Suite on English Folk Tunes "A Time T Was" (1974) and Third String Quartet (1975), which drew on material from Death in Venice , as well as the dramatic cantata Phaedra (1976), written for Janet Baker .Having previously declined a knighthood , Britten accepted a life peerage on 2 July 1976 as Baron Britten of Aldeburgh in the County of Suffolk. A few months later he died of heart failure at his house in Aldeburgh . He is buried in the churchyard of St. Peter and St. Paul's Church t His grave lies next to that of his partner, Sir Peter Pears . The grave of Imogen Holst , a close friend of Britten, can be found directly behind. Please Note: PAYPAL personal checks or Money Orders accepted from bidders within the USA . .....Please do NOT use Ebay's Check Out. .. I will send an individual invoice promptly after the auction has ended, BIDDERS OUTSIDE THE USA PLEASE WRITE IN ADVANCE FOR TERMS AND RATES .. THANKS FOR LOOKING !! read more

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