Benjamin Britten, composer
Born: November 22, 1913, in Lowestoft, Suffolk
Died: December 4, 1976, in Aldeburgh
Education: Royal College of Music in London
Operas: Paul Bunyan, Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia, Albert Herring, Billy Budd, Gloriana, The Turn of the Screw, Noye's Fludde, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Owen Wingrave, Death in Venice
Compositions: Sinfonietta, Phantasy Quartet, Our Hunting Fathers, Ballad of Heroes, Les Illuminations, Sinfonia da Requiem, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell
Collaborators: poet W. H. Auden and tenor Peter Pears, with whom he entered into the lifelong personal and creative partnership that was to become a major inspiration for his music
Founded: with Pears, the English Opera Group in 1946 and the Aldeburgh Festival