Benjamin Britten

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General information Edward Benjamin Britten was an English composer, conductor and pianist. His best-known works include the opera Peter Grimes (1945), the War Requiem (1962) and the orchestral showpiece The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1945).

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Early years Britten was born in the fishing port of Lowestoft in Suffolk. He was the youngest of four children of Robert Victor Britten and his wife Edith Rhoda. Britten's birthplace in Lowestoft

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Education Lowestoft When he was seven Britten was sent to a dame school , run by the Misses Astle . The younger sister, Ethel, gave him piano lessons; in later life he said that he remained grateful for the excellence of her teaching. The following year he moved on to his prep school, South Lodge, Lowestoft , as a day boy. Frank Bridge, Britten's teacher

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Education Public school and Royal College of Music In September 1928 Britten went as a boarder to Gresham's School, in Holt, Norfolk . At the time he felt unhappy there, even writing in his diary of contemplating suicide or running away: he hated being separated from his family, most particularly from his mother; he despised the music master; and he was shocked at the prevalence of bullying, though he was not the target of it.

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Music Influences. Britten's early musical life was dominated by the classical masters; his mother's ambition was for him to become the "Fourth B" – after Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Benjamin Britten also was inspired by Debussy and Ravel, Schoenberg and Berg, Purcell and other. 4B Brahms Beethoven Bach

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Fame With the premiere of Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to international fame. Over the next 28 years, he wrote 14 more operas, establishing himself as one of the leading 20th-century composers in the genre.

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Works of Benjamin Britten Britten's other works range from orchestral to choral, solo vocal, chamber and instrumental as well as film music. He took a great interest in writing music for children and amateur performers, including the opera Noye's Fludde , a Missa Brevis , and the song collection Friday Afternoons.

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Death Britten died of congestive heart failure on 4 December 1976. His funeral service was held at Aldeburgh Parish Church three days later, and he was buried in its churchyard, with a gravestone carved by Reynolds Stone. The authorities at Westminster Abbey had offered burial there, but Britten had made it clear that he wished his grave to be side by side with that, in due course, of Pears.

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