in Lowestoft on 22 November, feast of St Cecilia, patron saint of music.
from the sea, destroying two houses near Britten's home.
The poet Wilfred Own killed one week before the fighting stopped.
is a song entitled 'Do you no that my Daddy has gone to London today'.
with Miss Ethel Astle at his pre-prep school in Lowestoft.
for ninth birthday and makes immediate use of it in his own music.
at South Lodge in Lowestoft. Also has private viola lessons with Audrey Alston.
at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival and is 'knocked sideways'.
who agrees to give him composition lessons.
in Norfolk, boarding away from home.
in London, after winning a scholarship.
is 'Three Two-part Songs', published by Oxford University Press.
Britten's mature opus 1.
is the 'Phantasy Quartet'. opus 2.
while Britten is at the International Society of Contemporary Music Festival in Florence.
writing music for documentaries. Meets WH Auden, who also works there.
after the death of mutual friend Peter Burra. Britten's mother dies same year.
bought the previous year with legacy from mother. Also begins performing with Pears.
with Pears in May. When war later breaks out, the pair - by then in US - were advised to stay.
'In memory of my parents'
and registers as a Conscientious Objector, as does Pears.
for Tenor, Horn and Strings
The work that made Britten's name and put English opera back on the map for the first time since Purcell.
to the Orchestra
buying Crag House on the seafront.
of Music and the Arts.
Variations on a song by John Dowland.
A powerful study in the conflicting demands of justice, duty and compassion.
Abraham and Isaac.
'Dedicated by gracious permission to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, in honour of whose Coronation it was composed'
during a tour of the Far East, and is impressed by Noh theatre and gamelan music.
where Britten and Pears were to stay for the rest of their lives.
Arguably the first community opera.
was written to mark the re-opening of Aldeburgh's Jubilee Hall after building work to extend it.
Britten's first work for the great cellist Rostropovich.
a choral masterpiece mixing the Latin Requiem Mass with the poetry of Wilfred Owen.
as a new venue for the Aldeburgh Festival. Opened by the Queen.
which destroys the concert hall on the eve of the Aldeburgh Festival.
an opera commissioned for TV is broadcast on BBC2.
which left Britten partially disabled and ended his performing career.
Britten's final opera was written to give a last major role for Pears.
completed on Britten's final visit to Venice.
becoming the first composer ever to become a lord.
in The Red House on 4 December, with Pears at his side.
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