CHILDREN'S CRUSADE. Kinderkreuzzug. Op. 82. A Ballad for children's voices and orchestra.
Music by Benjamin Britten, Words by Bertolt Brecht, Illustrations by Sidney Nolan. A limited facsimile edition of the composer's manuscript. [Text in English & German]. Pp. [xvi]+[2]+34+[2](facsimile score, with two smaller inserts), 12 coloured plates; impl. 4to; qr. cream cloth, brown papered boards, lettered in gilt, edges slightly faded, 3 tiny black spots on upper board; book label of David Levine, Sydney, and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, earlier owner's handwritten label (Malcolm Otten - presumably the Australian artist and film maker) on upper free endpaper, pastedowns with mottled red spotting, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Faber Music Limited/Faber & Faber Limited, London, 1973. Edition limited to 1000 copies, this being one of 700 thus bound. *Signed on the limitation page by Sydney Nolan. Issued to mark the composer's sixtieth birthday. The illustrations are from a series of paintings by Nolan based on Children's Crusade, which was composed for the Wandsworth School Boys' Choir to perform at St Paul's Cathedral on 19th May, 1969, on the 50th anniversary of the Save the Children Fund. Item #182237
Price: $250.00