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Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, volume 4 (1952--7) and volume 5 (1958--63)

一生书信：本杰明·布里顿书信选集，第 4 卷 (1952--7) 和第 5 卷 (1958--63)

基本信息

批准号：
AH/F005768/1
负责人：
Mervyn Cooke
金额：
$ 4.44万
依托单位：
University of Nottingham
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2008
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2008 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF005768%2F1
关键词：
Letters Life Selected Benjamin Britten

项目摘要

The proposal requests support for editorial work on volumes 4 and 5 of the authorized edition of Benjamin Britten's voluminous and hitherto largely unpublished correspondence, selected from some 84,000 items now preserved at The Britten--Pears Library in Aldeburgh, Suffolk. 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. The present applicant 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) and volume 5 (1958--63) will be principally edited by Cooke and Reed, with Mitchell remaining as supervising editor for the series as a whole. These two volumes (totalling some 1600 pages) are scheduled for completion by the end of the academic year 2007/08, provided the present application for matching leave is successful. It is hoped that the complete edition of the correspondence (which will run to a total of seven volumes) will be finished in ample time for the composer's centenary celebrations in 2013.Volumes 4 and 5 will use, as did the first three volumes of the series, 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 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.Full discussion will be provided of the gestation of Britten's individual compositions in the periods covered, which include the operas Gloriana (1953), The Turn of the Screw (1954), Noye's Fludde (1957) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1960), the ballet The Prince of the Pagodas (1954--6), the War Requiem (1962) and Cello Symphony (1963), and the vocal works Canticle II (1952), Winter Words (1953), Canticle III (1954), Songs from the Chinese (1957) and Nocturne (1958). The annotations will include a digest of significant press reviews and other critical assessments of these works.Correspondents from whose letters the primary textual selection is currently being made include Ernest Ansermet, Lesley and David Bedford, Lennox Berkeley, James Blades, Henry Boys, Barbara Britten (the composer's sister), Basil Coleman and Basil Douglas (English Opera Group), John Cranko, Eric Crozier, Norman Del Mar, Ronald and Roger Duncan, E. M. Forster, Anthony Gishford (Boosey & Hawkes), The Earl of Harewood, Jonathan Harvey, Trevor Harvey (BBC), Imogen Holst, The Revd Walter Hussey, Hans Keller, Elizabeth Mayer (Britten's adoptive mother figure in the USA), Yehudi Menuhin, Peter Pears, John and Myfanwy Piper, William Plomer, Mary Potter, Paul Sacher, Edward Sackville-West, Humphrey Searle, Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Edith Sitwell, Erwin Stein (Boosey & Hawkes), Michael Tippett, Ninette De Valois and David Webster (Royal Opera House), Eric Walter White, and the parents of conductor Benjamin Zander.

该提案请求支持本杰明·布里顿 (Benjamin Britten) 的大量且迄今尚未出版的信件授权版的第 4 卷和第 5 卷的编辑工作，这些信件选自目前保存在萨福克郡奥尔德堡的布里顿-皮尔斯图书馆的约 84,000 份文献。《生平书信：本杰明·布里顿书信选集和日记》的前两卷由 Faber 和 Faber 于 1991 年出版，唐纳德·米切尔和菲利普·里德编辑，涵盖了作曲家 1923--45 年形成期的生平和作品。目前的申请人默文·库克 (Mervyn Cooke) 成为第 3 卷的联合编辑，该卷由 Faber and Faber 和加州大学出版社于 2004 年出版，涵盖 1946--51 年。第 4 卷 (1952--7) 和第 5 卷 (1958--63) 将主要由库克和里德编辑，米切尔仍担任整个系列的监督编辑。这两卷（共约1600页）预计在2007/08学年结束前完成，前提是目前的匹配假申请成功。希望这本书的完整版（总共七卷）能够在作曲家 2013 年的百年庆典上有足够的时间完成。第四卷和第五卷将像该系列的前三卷一样，使用注释媒介，从主要档案来源中提供关于布里顿的生活和作品的新事实信息，因此将作为自传（即布里顿的生活和艺术作为用他自己的话说）和一本客观的传记，其中充分考虑了有关作曲家的大量文献，无论是短暂的还是学术的。该项目的一个重要目标是以平衡的方式反映布里顿职业生涯的所有主要方面，而不仅仅是考虑他最出名的作曲活动：因此，他的许多其他专业活动（表演、指挥、录音、巡演、节日和歌剧公司管理）和私人关系（与他的搭档彼得·皮尔斯、他的剧本作者和其他创作伙伴、朋友、家人和年轻伙伴）都得到充分和彻底的处理，并且对应关系设置在相关的将充分讨论布里顿在各个时期的个人作品的酝酿，其中包括歌剧《荣耀》（1953）、《螺丝在拧紧》（1954）、诺伊的《弗洛德》（1957）和《仲夏夜之梦》（1960）、芭蕾舞剧《宝塔王子》（1954--6）、《战争安魂曲》（1962年）和大提琴交响曲（1963年），以及声乐作品《颂歌二》（1952年）、《冬语》（1953年）、《颂歌三》（1954年）、《中国歌曲》（1957年）和《夜曲》（1958年）。这些注释将包括对这些作品的重要新闻评论和其他批判性评估的摘要。目前正在从其信件中进行主要文本选择的通讯员包括欧内斯特·安塞梅、莱斯利和大卫·贝德福德、伦诺克斯·伯克利、詹姆斯·布莱兹、亨利·博伊斯、芭芭拉·布里顿（作曲家的妹妹）、巴兹尔·科尔曼和巴兹尔·道格拉斯（英国歌剧团）、约翰·克兰科、埃里克·克罗泽、诺曼·德尔 Mar、罗纳德和罗杰·邓肯、E.M.福斯特、安东尼·吉什福德（Boosey & Hawkes）、哈伍德伯爵、乔纳森·哈维、特雷弗·哈维（BBC）、伊莫金·霍尔斯特、沃尔特·赫西牧师、汉斯·凯勒、伊丽莎白·梅尔（布里顿在美国的养母人物）、耶胡迪·梅纽因、彼得·皮尔斯、约翰和米凡威·派珀、威廉·普洛默、玛丽·波特、保罗·萨赫、爱德华·萨克维尔-韦斯特、汉弗莱·塞尔、德斯蒙德·肖-泰勒、伊迪丝·西特韦尔、欧文·斯坦（布西与霍克斯）、迈克尔·蒂皮特、尼内特·德瓦卢瓦和大卫·韦伯斯特（皇家歌剧院）、埃里克·沃尔特·怀特以及指挥家本杰明·赞德的父母。