• Benjamin Britten's Sinfonietta was composed in 1932, at the age of 18, while he was a student at the Royal College of Music. It was first performed in...
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  • orchestra Sinfonietta (symphony), a symphony that is smaller in scale or lighter in approach than a standard symphony Sinfonietta (Britten), a 1932 composition...
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    Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central...
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    compositions includes all the published works by English composer Benjamin Britten with opus number. Paul Bunyan, Op. 17: Operetta in two acts, 114'. Libretto...
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    Requiem, Op. 66, is a British choral and orchestral composition by Benjamin Britten, composed mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962. The War Requiem...
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  • The Bournemouth Sinfonietta was a chamber orchestra founded in 1968 as an offshoot of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. It was disbanded in November...
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    The Rape of Lucretia (category Operas by Benjamin Britten)
    The Rape of Lucretia (Op. 37) is an opera in two acts by Benjamin Britten, written for Kathleen Ferrier, who performed the title role. Ronald Duncan based...
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 64, is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and set to a libretto adapted by the composer and Peter Pears from William...
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  • Theodorakis's Sinfonietta for piano, flauto and string orchestra (1947) Benjamin Britten's Sinfonietta, Op. 1 (1932) George Whitefield Chadwick's Sinfonietta (1904)...
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    the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the 1898 novella The Turn of...
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