Meet Britten as a boy
Aug 17, 2022
3 minutes
Y home town of Lowestoft proudly celebrates its claim to the first sunrise in the British Isles and its beautiful beach and wide-open Suffolk skies were a potent source of inspiration for one of our greatest composers, Benjamin Britten. As an adult, he settled in nearby Aldeburgh, where he founded the Aldeburgh Festival, but it was his childhood in Lowestoft that fired his early musical ambition. Britten died in the year I was born,
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