Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913--1976, volume 6: 1966--76

一生书信：本杰明·布里顿书信选集，1913--1976年，第6卷：1966--76

• 批准号: AH/I027452/1
• 负责人: Mervyn Cooke
• 金额: $ 7.78万
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI027452%2F1
• 关键词: Letters; Life; Selected; Benjamin; Britten

This Fellowship will support Mervyn Cooke's editorial work on the sixth and final volume of the authorized edition of Benjamin Britten's voluminous and hitherto largely unpublished correspondence, selected from some 84,000 items now preserved at The Britten--Pears Library in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. This final volume in the series covers the last decade of the composer's life, from 1966 to his death in 1976, and its publication will be timed to coincide with the international celebrations of his life and work during his centenary year (2013).The first two volumes of Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten were published by Faber and Faber in 1991 under the editorship of Donald Mitchell and Philip Reed, and covered the composer's life and works in the formative period 1923--45. Mervyn Cooke became co-editor for volume 3, published by Faber and Faber and the University of California Press in 2004, which covered the years 1946--51. Volume 4 (1952--7) was principally edited by Cooke and Reed, with Mitchell remaining as supervising editor, and was published in 2008; volume 5 (1958--65) was edited by Cooke and Reed alone, and was published in 2010. Volumes 4 and 5 were published by The Boydell Press in association with The Britten--Pears Foundation, an arrangement which will persist with volume 6. Each of these volumes amounts to c. 800 pages and, in addition to detailed editorial annotations, they include a wide range of photographs and illustrative material, including many facsimiles of primary source material (e.g. manuscripts and libretto drafts) which have never been published before. Volume 6, as did the previous volumes, will use the medium of annotation to provide new factual information on Britten's life and works derived from primary archival sources, and will therefore serve both as an autobiography (i.e. Britten's life and art as recounted in his own words) and an objective biography in which full account is taken of the extensive published literature on the composer, both ephemeral and scholarly. An important aim of the project is to reflect all major aspects of Britten's career in a balanced manner by not merely considering the composing activity for which he is best known: thus his many other professional activities (performing, conducting, recording, touring, festival and opera-company administration) and private relationships (with his partner Peter Pears, with his librettists and other creative associates, friends, family and young companions) receive full and thorough treatment, and the correspondence is set in the relevant cultural, artistic and economic contexts prevailing at the time. Such considerations arise, for example, from his dealings with major institutions such as the Royal Opera House, BBC, Decca, Boosey & Hawkes and Faber Music (the latter set up in 1965 specifically to publish Britten's music), English Opera Group and Aldeburgh Festival. An assessment of the reception accorded to the major works produced by Britten during the years covered by the volume will be undertaken in the annotations on the basis of significant press reviews and other critical commentary. The major works to be covered are the second and third church parables, The Burning Fiery Furnace (1966) and The Prodigal Son (1968); the television opera Owen Wingrave (1970); and Britten's final opera, Death in Venice (1973). Other works include the vaudeville The Golden Vanity (1966); the Second and Third Suites for solo cello written for Mstislav Rostropovich (1967 and 1971); the Brecht setting Children's Crusade (1968); a number of works for harp written for Osian Ellis; the two final canticles, The Journey of the Magi (1971) and The Death of Saint Narcissus (1974); the cantata Phaedra (1975); and the Third String Quartet (1975).

该奖学金将支持默文·库克对本杰明·布里顿的大量迄今未出版的信件授权版的第六卷和最后一卷的编辑工作，这些信件是从萨福克郡阿尔德堡的布里顿-皮尔斯图书馆保存的约84，000件物品中选出的。本系列的最后一卷涵盖了作曲家生命的最后十年，从1966年到他于1976年去世，其出版时间将与他百年诞辰（2013年）期间的国际庆祝活动相吻合。《本杰明·布里顿的书信和日记选》由费伯和费伯于1991年在唐纳德·米切尔和菲利普·里德的编辑下出版，涵盖了作曲家在1923 - 45年形成时期的生活和作品。默文·库克成为第三卷的共同编辑，该卷由费伯和费伯以及加州大学出版社于2004年出版，涵盖了1946 - 51年。第4卷（1952 - 7）主要由库克和里德编辑，米切尔仍然是监督编辑，并于2008年出版;第5卷（1958 - 65）由库克和里德单独编辑，并于2010年出版。1944年和1945年由博谢尔出版社与布里顿-皮尔斯基金会联合出版，这一安排将持续到第6卷。每一卷都是C。800页，除了详细的编辑注释外，它们还包括广泛的照片和说明材料，包括许多以前从未出版过的原始资料（例如手稿和剧本草稿）的传真。第6卷，如前几卷一样，将使用注释的媒介来提供关于布里顿的生活和主要档案来源的作品的新的事实信息，因此将作为自传（即布里顿的生活和艺术，用他自己的话叙述）和客观的传记，其中充分考虑了作曲家的广泛出版文献，既短暂又学术。该项目的一个重要目的是反映所有主要方面的布里顿的职业生涯在一个平衡的方式，而不仅仅是考虑作曲活动，他是最有名的：因此，他的许多其他专业活动（表演、指挥、录音、巡回演出、节日和歌剧公司管理）和私人关系（与他的合作伙伴彼得皮尔斯，与他的歌词作者和其他创造性的同伙，朋友，家人和年轻的同伴）接受充分和彻底的治疗，通信是设置在相关的文化，当时的艺术和经济环境。例如，他与皇家歌剧院、BBC、Decca、Boosey & Hawkes和Faber Music（后者成立于1965年，专门出版布里顿的音乐）、英国歌剧团和阿尔德堡音乐节等主要机构打交道时，就出现了这样的考虑。对布里顿在本卷所涵盖的年份中制作的主要作品的接受情况的评估将在重要的新闻评论和其他评论的基础上在注释中进行。主要作品包括第二和第三个教堂寓言，燃烧的烈火炉（1966年）和浪子（1968年）;电视歌剧欧文Wingrave（1970年）;和布里顿的最后一部歌剧，威尼斯之死（1973年）。其他作品包括轻歌舞剧《金色的虚荣》（1966）;为罗斯特罗波维奇创作的大提琴独奏第二和第三组曲（1967年和1971年）;布雷希特设置儿童的十字军东征（1968年）;一些作品为竖琴写的奥西安埃利斯;两个最后的康奈剧，旅行的贤士（1971年）和死亡的圣水仙（1974年）;康塔塔菲德拉（1975）和第三弦乐四重奏（1975）。