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Tony Britten is a British composer, best known for adapting the music and writing the text of the UEFA Champions League Anthem. He has also directed a number of films, including a documentary about his unrelated namesake, Benjamin Britten: Peace and Conflict (2013).
Known for
- Peter Warlock: Some Little Joy — Pianist2005
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1913-11-22
- Active to
- 1976-12-04
Discography
- Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes / Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra1955
- Carnival of the Animals/The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra1962
- Serge Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf / Benjamin Britten: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra1962
- Twentieth Century Church Music1963
- War Requiem1963
- Copland: The Red Pony & Britten: Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 201964
- Rejoice in the Lamb / Missa brevis / A Ceremony of Carols1965
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream1966
- Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Op. 34 / Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge for string orchestra, Op. 101967
- Songs & Proverbs of William Blake - The Holy Sonnets of John Donne1969
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- Listeners
- 2,272
- Total plays
- 23,015
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Tony Britten is a British composer, best known for adapting the music and writing the text of the UEFA Champions League Anthem. Britten is a graduate of the Royal College of Music. He spent the first few years of his career in theatre as a musical director, including working for Cameron Mackintosh as music supervisor on many shows including Godspell, The Rocky Horror Show and Oliver!. After that he worked at the National Theatre as arranger/musical director. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/T
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tony
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- director
- Educated at
- Royal College of Music
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- association football
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- date of birth
- 2000-01-01
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