19 18: A week before the armistice of World War I, the 25-year-old poet Wilfred Owen was killed in the war. More than 40 years later, Britten wrote the Requiem for War with Owen's poems.
1922: William Wharton's Feng performed privately in London, and Edith Sitwell recited her own poems in the music performance.
1923: Britten wrote some songs and played the viola. Frank Bridge's The Sea had a great influence on him. Since 1927, he is the only student in Bridge, and he will always be grateful to Bridge for his advice.
1934: Britten left the Royal Conservatory of Music to compose music for the film "Night Mail" of GPO Film Group. This year, elgar, holst and Darius died one after another.
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1937: Britten was deeply hit by her mother's early death. He gradually became close to the singer Peter Pears, and the next year they started a family.
WH。 Auden and Christopher isherwood co-wrote two plays, and Britten set the music for them. He and Pierce came to America with two writers in 1939, but he refused to hold a concert after he came back in 1942.
1945: Britten's first long opera Peter Grims premiered at the Wells Theatre in Seideler, London, in which Pierce played the leading role.
After World War II, Britten played the piano for Mei Niuyin in a concert for survivors of Balzen concentration camp, which became his important and permanent life experience.
1948: Britten, Pierce and playwright EricCrozier founded the Aldeburg Music Festival, and he creates a new work for the British Opera House every year.
1953: Britten's opera Gloriana for the coronation of Elizabeth II was severely criticized for showing the weakness of Elizabeth I and hurting the new queen.
1954: Britten conducted the premiere of the opera "Spinning Screw" in TeatroLaFenice. His interest in Venice continued quietly for many years until he wrote Death of Venice in 197 1.
1958: Britten composed for Coleridge's poem "TheWanderingsofCain" and composed his "Nocturne". The painter SidneyNolan also got inspiration from poetry and finished his painting in 1977.
1962: To commemorate the reconstruction of Coventry Cathedral, Britten wrote Requiem for War, which premiered in the Cathedral with Heather Harper, Peter Pears and Dietrich Fisher-Dieskau as soloists.
1963: To commemorate Britten's 50th birthday, Sir Michael Kemp Tippett dedicated his Orchestral Concerto to Britten. 1965, Britten also dedicated his Magpie River to Tippett to commemorate his 60th birthday.
Britten sent his third cello suite to mstislav rostropovich. Rostovovich could not leave the Soviet Union because he supported the novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
1973: Britten had a heart operation before the premiere of Death in Venice. During this period, he suffered a stroke, which caused partial paralysis of his right hand.
1976: As the only composer who won the honor, Lord Britten died in Aldeburg on February 4th, 65438. JohnPiper painted Britten's church fable on stained glass.