List of compositions by Benjamin Britten

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This list of compositions includes all the published works by English composer Benjamin Britten with opus number.

Contents

By genre

Operas

Paul Bunyan , Op. 17:

Peter Grimes , Op. 33:

The Rape of Lucretia , Op. 37:

Albert Herring , Op. 39:

The Beggar's Opera , Op. 43:

Let's Make an Opera (The Little Sweep) , Op. 45:

Billy Budd , Op. 50:

Billy Budd (revised):

Gloriana , Op. 53:

The Turn of the Screw , Op. 54:

Noye's Fludde , Op. 59:

A Midsummer Night's Dream , Op. 64:

Owen Wingrave , Op. 85:

Death in Venice , Op. 88:

Church parables

Ballets

Orchestral

Concertante

Vocal/choral orchestral

Vocal

Choral

Chamber/instrumental

Solo piano

  • Five Waltzes, for piano (1923–25, rev. 1969)
  • Three Character Pieces, for piano (1930)
  • Twelve variations on a theme, for piano (1930)
  • Holiday Diary for piano (1934)
  • Sonatina romantica for piano (rejected by the composer; 1940)
  • Night-Piece (Notturno) for piano (written for Leeds International Pianoforte Competition; 1963)
  • Variations for piano (1965)

Two pianos

  • Two Lullabies for two pianos (1936)
  • Introduction and Rondo alla burlesca for two pianos (1940)
  • Mazurka elegiaca for two pianos (written as part of the collaborative album Homage to Paderewski ; 1941)

Organ

String quartet

Violin and piano

  • Suite for Violin and Piano (1935)
  • Reveille, Concert Study (1937, published 1983)

Viola and piano

  • Reflection for viola and piano (1930)
  • Lachrymae for viola and piano, after "If my complaints could passions move" by John Dowland; for William Primrose; 1950)
  • There is a willow grows aslant a brook (1932), an arrangement of the orchestral poem by Frank Bridge. The title is taken from Shakespeare, and the arrangement by Britten is dedicated to Bridge.

Violin, viola and piano

  • Two Pieces (1929; first performance 2003) [5]

Solo viola

  • Etude (1929)
  • Elegy (1930)

Cello and piano

Solo cello

Oboe and piano

  • Two Insect Pieces for oboe and piano (1935)
  • Temporal Variations for oboe and piano (1936)

Oboe and strings

Solo oboe

Flute, violin and piano 4-hands

  • Gemini Variations for flute, violin, and piano four hands (1965)

Solo timpani

  • Timpani Piece for Jimmy, timpani solo (1955) for James Blades

Three trumpets

Guitar

Harp

  • Suite for Solo Harp (1969)

Film & drama music

By opus number

Notes

  1. An adaptation of the T. H. White novel The Sword In The Stone . A single surviving 25-minute episode Wart and the Hawks, is available to stream. [6]

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References

  1. "Tit for tat". LiederNet . Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  2. "Tit for Tat". brittensongs.org. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  3. "Tit for Tat". Hyperion Records . Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  4. "Benjamin Britten – Fish in the Unruffled Lakes". Boosey & Hawkes . Retrieved 26 November 2018.
  5. Anderson, Martin (October 2006). "London, St. John's Smith Square: Britten and David Matthews premières". Tempo . 57 (226): 69. doi:10.1017/S0040298203240365. S2CID   145557734.
  6. "The Sword in the Stone, Wart and the Hawks". BBC Radio 4. BBC. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  7. Oliver 1996, p. 215.

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