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BTC813 THE AGAMEMNON

Theatre score
Period of composition: 20 Sep - 30 Oct 1936
Genre: Incidental music
Text: (of play and vocal numbers) Louis MacNeice (1907-1963), translation of the drama by Aeschylus
Performing forces:

Chorus (SATB) - 2 fl, ca, cl in B flat - perc (susp cymb, wb, sd, bd)

Notes

In the programme for the original production Britten acknowledges the assistance of Alfred Nieman in the adaptation of the choral music, and the general assistance of Grace Williams, who studied composition at the Royal College of Music at the same time as Britten and may have acted as copyist on this occasion.

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