Benjamin Britten

United Kingdom, 1930–1976

English composer (1913-1976), the central figure of British music in his century. Peter Grimes revived English opera at a stroke, and the War Requiem, the church parables and the Young Person's Guide made a tonal, deeply English modernism out of Purcell's inheritance.

Influenced by

• Frank Bridge
• Henry Purcell
• Gustav Mahler

Influenced

• The Durutti Column