917BTC966966BBM/BTCturnthinePurcell: Turn then thine eyes, Z 425 [HP seven songs/3]For high or medium voice and piano1Purcell realizationpre 13 March 19451120Anon.1.0001945pre 13 March 19451120194019453130000000710028916BTC965965BBM/BTCpetergrimesPeter GrimesOpera in three acts and a prologueop. 33331Stage workJan 1944111810 Feb 19451119

Britten and Pears began sketching the scenario of the opera as early as 1941.

Cast and orchestraMontagu Slater, derived from a poem by George Crabbe143.0'For the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, dedicated to the memory of Natalie Koussevitzky'001945Jan 1944 - 10 Feb 194566918BTC967967BBM/BTC912Themes for improvisationFor organ1Solo organMar 19451121Jul 19451122

In March 1945 a theme was requested by John Lowes of the BBC for a broadcast improvisation by Marcel Dupré. Britten supplied two ideas, for a prelude and fugue respectively.

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