Children's crusade Kinderkreuzzug : a ballad for children's chorus & orchestra : op. 82
Title
Children's crusade [microform] = Kinderkreuzzug : a ballad for children's chorus & orchestra : op. 82 / words by Bertholt Brecht ; English translation by Hans Keller : music by Benjamin Britten.
Holograph composition sketch (condensed score) and discarded sketches; ms. voice part mainly in the hand of Rosamund Strode ; holograph full score, signed. (Britten-Pears Library, Aldeburgh).
Title from full score ; title on composition sketch: Kinderkreuzzug (1939) : for boys voices (solo & chorus), pianos & percussion with electric organ & support voices.
On p. 34 of composition sketch: Nov. 15, 1968.
On t.p. of full score: Written for the members of Wandsworth School choir and orchestra to perform on the 50th anniversary of the Save the Children Fund at St. Paul's Cathedral, May 19th, 1969 ... c1969 by Faber Music Ltd.
Composition sketch and discarded sketches are in German; voice part is in English; full score is in German and English.
Full score published: London : Faber Music, 1972.
Film no. B 3.
Reproduction (note)
Microfilm.
Author
Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Title
Children's crusade [microform] = Kinderkreuzzug : a ballad for children's chorus & orchestra : op. 82 / words by Bertholt Brecht ; English translation by Hans Keller : music by Benjamin Britten.