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ReferenceBBW/2/2/1/10

Title

Preface to the libretto for The Rape of Lucretia Op. 37

Date1946

Description2 carbon typescripts each with typed signature. Composer’s preface to the first edition of the libretto for The Rape of Lucretia.

Extent2 copies, 2 pages each

Physical Description1½ sides 20.3 x 25.3 cms

Publication NotePublished Boosey & Hawkes 1946 and reprinted as the foreword to ‘The Rape of Lucretia’ (ed. Eric Crozier) published by The Bodley Head, 1948. Reproduced in Paul Kildea ‘Britten on Music’ (OUP, 2003), p.78

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