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BTC1150 THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER (unfinished)

Television work
Composition date: ca. 1970-1971
Date notes

Britten's handwritten copy of the poem can be found adjacent to material from the early 1970s.

Genre: Television work
Text: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Notes

Britten appears to have considered an adaptation of Coleridge's poem for a BBC television production, with either designs or illustrations by Sidney Nolan. No musical material exists.

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