Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951)

The third volume of the annotated selected letters of composer Benjamin Britten covers the years 1946-51, during which he wrote many of his best-known works, founded and developed the English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh Festival, and toured widely in Europe and the United States as a pianist and conductor. Correspondents include librettists Ronald Duncan ( The Rape of Lucretia ), Eric Crozier ( Albert Herring , Saint Nicolas , The Little Sweep ) and E. M. Forster ( Billy Budd ); conductor Erne