My beloved man
Subtitle: the letters of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears
By: edited by Vicki P. Stroeher, Nicholas Clark and Jude Brimmer
Contributors: Pears, Peter, 1910-1986; Stroeher, Vicki P.; Clark, Nicholas (Librarian); Brimmer, Jude
Series: Aldeburgh studies in music -- v. 10; Aldeburgh studies in music -- v. 10.
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9781783271085
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Correspondence; Composers; Friends and associates; Tenors (Singers)
Other titles: Letters of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears
Work titles: Correspondence
Description: 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 together and published, as Pears intended, for the first time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-424), videography (page 425), web resources (page 425), and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Britten and Pears's 'personal and consistent' correspondence; title: 'When I am not with you' : August 1937 to January 1941 (Letters 1-12); title: 'My life is inextricably bound up in yours' : May 1942 to November 1944 (Letters 13-70); title: 'I don't know why we should be so lucky, in all this misery' : July 1945 to April 1949 (Letters 71-125); title: 'You are potentially the greatest singer alive' : Late 1949 to January 1954 (Letters 126-88); title: 'Why shouldn't I recognise that you are such a large part of my life' : May 1954 to December 1959 (Letters 189-246); title: 'Far away as you are, at least I feel there is contact!' : January 1960 to March 1968 (Letters 247-313); title: 'It is you who have given me everything' : January 1970 to June 1975 (Letters 314-53); title: 'My days are not empty' : January to November 1976 (Letters 354-65); title: Personalia. First names and nicknames ; Personalia; title: List of works. Britten works ; Works by other composers ; Artworks ; Books, poems and plays ; Films.