A Hymn of St Columba is a composition for choir and organ written in 1962 by the English composer Benjamin Britten. It is a setting of a Latin hymn attributed to Saint Columba, the founder of Iona Abbey, and was published by Boosey & Hawkes.
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AHymnofStColumba is a composition for choir and organ written in 1962 by the English composer Benjamin Britten. It is a setting ofa Latin hymn attributed...
though he spent most of the remainder of his life in Scotland. Three surviving early medieval Latin hymns are attributed to him. Columba was born to Fedlimid...
(1961) AHymnofStColumba for chorus and organ (1962) The Golden Vanity for five boy soloists, treble chorus and piano (1966) The Building of the House...
reconciliation and death." The same year, he composed AHymnofStColumba for choir and organ, setting a poem by the 6th-century saint. Other works for voices...
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was sent from here to London and exported to mainland Europe. Today a collection of shops, galleries, restaurants and the Concert Hall fill the old buildings...
Hymn to St Peter (Op. 56a) is a cantata for treble soloist, SATB choir and organ composed by Benjamin Britten in 1955. The piece was the last Britten...
samples a traditional Swedish melody heard also in the popular Christian hymn “How Great Thou Art”. In 1944, the choreographer Walter Gore created a ballet...
the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which was built after the original fourteenth-century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing...
Friday Afternoons is a collection of twelve song settings by Benjamin Britten, composed 1933–35 for the pupils of Clive House School, Prestatyn, Wales...
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Pears continued to work on the scenario of the opera while Britten composed A Ceremony of Carols and Hymn to St Cecilia. The story, and Grimes's character...
hymn The composition was originally published as A Boy was Born, with a lower-case w, in an era before orthographic norms regarding capitalization of...
a core programme of opera productions, but the vision was soon widened to include readings of poetry, literature, drama, lectures and exhibitions of art...
Essex: A Tragic History. The first performance was presented at the Royal Opera House, London, in 1953 during the celebrations of the coronation of Queen...
form a guard of honour. 26 November – Ireland held a national day of mourning for President Kennedy. 2 June – Benjamin Britten's AHymnofStColumba premièred...
Op. 39, is a chamber opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten. Composed in the winter of 1946 and the spring of 1947, this comic opera was a successor to...
of Iona who died in 704. Adomnán was a hagiographer and his greatest work Vita Columbae or Life ofSt. Columba contains references to Cainnech. Cainnech...
Six Metamorphoses after Ovid (Op. 49) is a piece of program music for solo oboe written by English composer Benjamin Britten in 1951. The piece was inspired...