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Archive & Collections

The archive at the Red House is probably the richest composer’s archive in the world and is open to anyone to visit. It is a rich source of information on a wide variety of topics, held in various formats: music scores, working papers, books, artworks, correspondence, photographs, film and sound recordings and costumes. Britten’s and Pears’ papers are at the heart of it but it also holds material created by other members of their circle.


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Stories from the Archive

  1. Archive Treasures: Slow train to Aldeburgh – Britten and Dr Beeching

    James Callaghan, Roy Jenkins, Barbara Castle: the list of Ministers in Harold Wilson’s 1964-1970 Labour government in the UK includes many political…
  2. Pages from Holst’s 1940 scrapbook about air raids and the internment of Rauter and Müller-Hartmann.

    Archive Treasures: Imogen Holst’s World War II scrapbooks and her émigré musician friends

    For this month’s archive treasures story we are going to delve again into Imogen Holst’s wonderful scrapbooks. Holst kept a series of large scrapbooks…
  3. Peter Pears, Colin Matthews, Imogen Holst and Donald Mitchell with the Amadeus String Quartet during rehearsals for the premiere of Britten’s String Quartet No. 3, Snape Maltings, December 1976

    Archive Treasures: Voices in December

    The Christmas season was always celebrated with gusto at The Red House. Correspondence and cards found in the Archive collections underline the cheer…

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