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Also Known As Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten of Aldeburgh
Born November 22, 1913 • Lowestoft • England
Died December 4, 1976 (aged 63) • England
Awards And Honors Grammy Award (1963)
Notable Works “Billy Budd” • “Curlew River” • “Owen Wingrave” • “Peter Grimes” • “Spring Symphony” • “The Rape of Lucretia” • “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” • “War Requiem”

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Portrait of Benjamin Britten, British composer, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking toward the camera with a neutral expression.
Opera adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream
Britten, 1960
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Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, with a serious expression and a brick wall in the background.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz
French composer
Portrait of composer Sergey Prokofiev, circa 1938, wearing round glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking slightly to the side.
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg in a suit, seated at a piano and holding a conductor's baton, appears to be conducting music in a wood-paneled room.
Arnold Schoenberg
American composer
Portrait of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak with a beard, wearing a suit jacket, waistcoat, and bow tie.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
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William Boyce
British composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler
Austrian composer
Dmitry Shostakovich sits at a desk by a window, looking at sheet music, wearing glasses and a suit, with papers and books arranged on the desk.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Sergey Rachmaninoff in profile, seated at a piano, playing with both hands on the keys.
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Russian musician
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
French composer
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Louis Spohr
German musician

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