Britten: Essays, Letters and Opera Guides (Hans Keller Archive)

232 pages. A selection of Hans Keller's writings on Benjamin Britten including previousl y unseen correspondence and reprints of long unavailable writings.It was hearing an early performance of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes that turned the young emigré writer and musician Hans Keller from psychology to music. Thereaft er he became the composer's most fervent advocate, devoting to him a whole issue of Music Survey (the journal he edited with Donald Mitchell) and the first comp rehensive book on his music (again edited with Mitchell). This volume is a selec tion of the best of his writings, dealing withPeter Grimesthrough to Death in Ve nice and the Third String Quartet. It also includes an illustrated study by A. M . Garnham of the extensive correspondence between Britten and Keller (most of it hitherto unknown), areprint of the handbooks on The Rape of Lucretia and Albert Herring (long out-of-print), and items from the Hans Keller Archive in the Univ ersity of Cambridge. The book is illustrated with drawings from life by Milein C osman.…