The making of Peter Grimes.

Author/creator Britten, Benjamin
Other author Banks, Paul, 1951- contributor, editor.
Format Musical Score
Publication Info[Woodbridge, Suffolk] : Britten Estate Ltd. : The Boydell Press, [1996]
Description2 volumes (119 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, xviii, 251 pages) : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, music, portraits ; 36 cm
Subjects

Uniform titlePeter Grimes (Sketches)
Portion of title Peter Grimes
Contents Volume 1. Facsimile of Benjamin Britten's composition draft.
Contents Volume 2. Notes and commentaries. Foreword / Marion Thorpe -- Preface / Paul banks -- Introduction (1945) / Benjamin Britten -- Peter Grimes (1965) / Benjamin Britten -- Notes on the production of Peter Grimes (1946) / Eric Crozier -- A Peter Grimes chronology, 1941-1945 / Philip Reed -- Peter Grimes: the growth of the libretto / Philip Brett -- Finding the right notes / Philip Reed -- The later history of the composition draft / Rosamund Strode -- Peter Grimes: fifty years on / Donald Mitchell -- Bibliographic notes and narratives / Paul Banks -- Personalia / Philip Reed -- Index / Judith Henderson.
General noteReproduces principally ms. (short score) in the Britten-Pears Library, Aldeburgh.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index.
LCCN 2001545529
ISBN0851156320