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Aschenbach's Wilderness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Extract

Our hunting fathers and Death in Venice stand respectively at the beginning and end of Benjamin Britten's voice-and-orchestra output. Important works (Sinfonietta, A Boy was Born) preceded op. 8, and (Phaedra, String Quartet No. 3) following op. 88, but Our Hunting Fathers (1936) and Death in Venice (1973) are a signpost and a summation. The (presumably fortuitous) symmetry of the opus numbering almost suggests that what was considered in Our Hunting Fathers was to be considered again in Death in Venice, with doubled intensity, and analysis of their respective texts reveals this to be so.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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3 Ibid., p.24ff.

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