EAN: 9781783271085

MY BELOVED MAN - VICKI P STROEHER NICHOLAS CLAR...

'It's a life of the two of us.' This volume comprises the complete surviving correspondence
between Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. The 365 letters written throughout their 39-year
relationship are here brought togetherand published  as Pears intended  for the first time.
While the correspondence provides valuable evidence of the development of Britten's works  more
significant is the insight into his relationship with Pears and their day-to-day life together.
Entertaining to read  domestic and intimate  the letters provide glimpses of cultural and
artistic life in the twentieth century  including pacifism and conscientious objection 
critical assessments of music and other artists  transport and communications development in
the twentieth century  the 'Aldeburgh corpses'  art collecting  gossip  everyday life in an
English country house  the development of the Aldeburgh Festival  performance practice in early
music  looking after dachshunds  travel  and a host of other topics. Above all  when read
together  Britten and Pears's letters allow the clearest possible look 'behind the scenes' of
one of the most productive creative partnerships of the twentieth century. VICKI P. STROEHER is
Professor of Music History at Marshall University where she is also Coordinator of the Music
History & Literature area. NICHOLAS CLARK is the Librarian at the Britten-Pears Foundation at
The Red House  Britten and Pears's home in Aldeburgh  Suffolk. JUDE BRIMMER is an Archivist at
the Britten-Pears Foundation.

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