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 and German]. Pp. [xvi]+[2]+34+[2](facsimile score, with two smaller inserts), 12 coloured plates; impl. 4to; qr. brown leather over brown papered boards, spine and upper board lettered in gilt, edges of boards faintly faded, top fore-corner of upper board a trifle bruised; lacking the slipcase; book label of David Levine, Sydney, and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, scattered foxing; Faber Music Limited/Faber & Faber Limited, London, 1973. Edition limited to 1,000 copies, this being one of 300 numbered copies, signed on the limitation page by the composer and artist. *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 #184790
Price: $950.00