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Published to mark the beginning of the Britten centenary year in 2013 Paul Kildea's Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century" is the definitive biography of Britain's greatest modern composer. In the eyes of many Benjamin Britten was our finest composer since Purcell (a figure who often inspired him) three hundred years earlier. He broke decisively with the romantic nationalist school of figures such as Parry Elgar and Vaughan Williams and recreated English music in a fresh modern European form. With "Peter Grimes" (1945) "Billy Budd" (1951) and "The Turn of the Screw" (1954) he arguably composed the last operas - from any composer in any country - which have entered both the popular consciousness and the musical canon. He did all this while carrying two disadvantages to worldly success - his passionately held pacifism which made him suspect to the authorities during and immediately after the Second World War - and his homosexuality specifically his forty-year relationship with Peter Pears for whom many of his greatest operatic roles and vocal works were created. The atmosphere and personalities of Aldeburgh in his native Suffolk also form another wonderful dimension to the book. Kildea shows clearly how Britten made this creative community notably with the foundation of the Aldeburgh Festival and the building of Snape Maltings but also how costly the determination that this required was. Above all this book helps us understand the relationship of Britten's music to his life and takes us as far into his creative process as we are ever likely to go. Kildea reads dozens of Britten's works with enormous intelligence and sensitivity in a way which those without formal musical training can understand. It is one of the most moving and enjoyable biographies of a creative artist of any kind to have appeared for years. Paul Kildea is a writer and conductor who has performed many of the Britten works he writes about in opera houses and concert halls from Sydney to Hamburg. His previous books include "Selling Britten" (2002) and (as editor) "Britten on Music" (2003). He was Head of Music at the Aldeburgh Festival between 1999 and 2002 and subsequently Artistic Director of the Wigmore Hall in London."

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