Britten, Benjamin: Children's Crusade, The (score)
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Composed for the 50th anniversary of the Save the Children Fund, Children's Crusade was completed in January 1969, immediately before two other works preoccupied with war: Who are these Children? and Owen Wingrave. Britten himself referred to this hard-hitting work as a ‚very grisly piece', and its icy, claustrophobic and violent music offers almost no hope. Originally in English, it also exists in a German translation by Hans Keller.
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