Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh, OM (November 22, 1913 – December 4, 1976) was a British composer, conductor and pianist.

Selected list of works

Works for and with orchestra

• Sinfonietta for chamber orchestra (1932)
• Simple Symphony for string orchestra (1934)
• Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge for string orchestra (1937)
• Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1938 rev. 1945)
• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1939 rev. 1958)
• Young Apollo for piano and string orchestra (1939)
• Sinfonia da Requiem for orchestra (1940)
• Diversions for piano left hand and orchestra (1940 rev. 1954)
• Prelude and Fugue for 18 strings (1943)
• Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (1943)
• Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes for orchestra (1945)
• The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1946)
• Saint Nicolas for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1948)
• Spring Symphony for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1949)
• Symphonic Suite from Gloriana (1954)
• War Requiem (1961) )
• Cantata misericordium for soloists, small chorus, string quartet, string orchestra, piano, harp, timpani (1963)
• Cello Symphony (1963)
• Suite on English Folk Tunes "A Time There Was" for chamber orchestra (1966/1974)
• Phaedra for mezzosoprano, string orchestra, percussion, cello and harpsichord (Robert Lowell after Racine's Phèdre, 1975)
• Praise we great men for soloists, chorus and orchestra (Edith Sitwell) (1976, completed by Colin Matthews 1985)

Operas and Church Parables

• Peter Grimes (1945), an opera based on George Crabbe's The Borough
• The Rape of Lucretia (1946)
• Albert Herring (1947), after Guy de Maupassant's story "Le Rosier de Mme. Husson"
• Billy Budd (1951), (after Herman Melville's novella)
• Gloriana (1953) for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
• The Turn of the Screw (1954), an opera based on the story by Henry James
• Noye's Fludde (1958)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960), after Shakespeare
• Curlew River (1964)
• The Burning Fiery Furnace (1966)
• The Prodigal Son (1968)
• Owen Wingrave (1971) an opera for television
• Death in Venice (1973) based on Thomas Mann's novella

Others

• Music for the documentary film Night Mail (1936) with words by W. H. Auden
• A Ceremony of Carols (1942)
• Fanfare for St Edmundsbury (1959) short antiphonal and polytonal piece for three trumpets
• Nocturnal after John Dowland (1963) for guitar
• Cello Suites Nos 1, 2 and 3 (1964;67;71)