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Children's Crusade (Britten)
Composition by Benjamin Britten / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Children's Crusade, Op. 82, subtitled a Ballad for children's voices and orchestra[1] is a composition by Benjamin Britten. He completed it in 1969, setting Bertolt Brecht's poem Kinderkreuzzug 1939 [de] for children's choir with some solo parts, keyboard instruments and an array of percussion, to be performed mainly by children. It was first performed in an English version at St Paul's Cathedral in London on 19 May 1969.
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Children's Crusade | |
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Ballad for children's voices and orchestra | |
by Benjamin Britten | |
![]() Benjamin Britten in 1968, when he began to compose the work | |
Opus | 82 |
Occasion | 50th anniversary of the Save the Children Fund |
Text | Kinderkreuzzug 1939 [de] by Bertolt Brecht, translated by Hans Keller |
Language | German |
Composed | 1968 (1968)–1969 |
Dedication | Hans Werner Henze |
Performed | 19 May 1969 (1969-05-19) |
Published | 1970 (1970) |
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