---
name: "Benjamin Britten"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/benjamin-britten"
fi1m_id: "benjamin-britten"
imdb_id: "nm0110123"
tmdb_id: 46873
wikidata_id: "Q150767"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "22 November 1913"
died: "4 December 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:36:56.034796+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Benjamin Britten

## Identity

Benjamin Britten

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/benjamin-britten
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** benjamin-britten
- **IMDb ID:** nm0110123
- **TMDB ID:** 46873
- **Wikidata ID:** Q150767
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Britten, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q150767, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0110123/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/46873

Composer. Born 22 November 1913 in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, UK. Died 4 December 1976.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 22 November 1913, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, UK
- **Died:** 4 December 1976
- **Also known as:** Бенджамин Бриттен, Б. Бриттен
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Britten, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q150767, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0110123/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/46873

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Fanny and Alexander*](https://film.one/film/fanny-and-alexander.md) (92)

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## Biography

Benjamin Britten was an English composer. He was born on 22 November 1913 in Lowestoft, Suffolk, and died on 4 December 1976 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

Britten composed scores for documentary films in the 1930s and 1940s. His music, including the Suite No. 2 for Cello Solo, was used posthumously in Ingmar Bergman’s *Fanny and Alexander* (1982). He is also known for operas such as *Peter Grimes* (1945) and *Billy Budd* (1951), as well as the *War Requiem* (1962).

*Sources: imdb.com, svenskfilmdatabas.se, ingmarbergman.se.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Fanny and Alexander* (1982), Fi1m 92, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/fanny-and-alexander.md)

## Complete filmography (66)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Curlew River* (2024), Music, Writer
- *Britten: War Requiem* (2024), as Opera
- *Liubov Nosova conducts the Paris Mozart Orchestra @ La Maestra 2024* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Bar Avni conducts the Paris Mozart Orchestra @ La Maestra 2024* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Iveta Apkalna The 140th Anniversary of the Riga Cathedral Organ* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Benjamin Britten: Válečné rekviem* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *Peter Grimes - Polish National Opera* (2023), Music
- *Peter Grimes* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *The Turn of the Screw - I Teatri di Reggio Emilia* (2023), Music
- *Le Songe d’une nuit d’été - Opéra de Lille* (2023), Sound
- *A Midsummer Night's Dream - RSO* (2023), Music
- *Odessa Classics Tallinn* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *OSN: musiche ispirate all'acqua per Juraj Valčuha con l'Orchestra Rai* (2022), Original Music Composer
- *Peter Grimes* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *The Turn of the Screw* (2020), Music
- *A Midsummer Night's Dream* (2019), Lyricist, Music
- *Britten Death in Venice* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Gloriana* (2018), Music
- *Peter and the Wolf* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd* (2017), Music
- *Britten: Nocturne* (2013), Music
- *Britten: The Rape of Lucretia* (2013), Musical
- *Peter Grimes on Aldeburgh Beach* (2013), Music
- *Britten: Gloriana* (2013), Writer
- *Death in Venice* (2013), Original Music Composer
- *Britten: Death in Venice* (2010), Original Music Composer
- *Death in Venice* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Britten: Peter Grimes* (2008), Original Music Composer
- *Benjamin Britten - A Midsummer Night's Dream* (2006), Writer
- *Noye's Fludde* (2004), Music
- *The Turn of the Screw* (2004), Music
- *The Turn of the Screw* (2001), Music
- *Owen Wingrave* (2001), Original Music Composer
- *Gloriana* (2000), Writer
- *Billy Budd* (1997), as Compositor
- *Jak se dělá opera* (1996), Music
- *Peter Grimes* (1994), Writer, Music
- *The Children* (1990), Original Music Composer
- *War Requiem* (1989), Music, Conductor
- *Fanny and Alexander* (1982), Music — Fi1m 92, [page](https://film.one/film/fanny-and-alexander.md)
- *The Selfish Giant* (1982), Music
- *The Turn of the Screw* (1982), Music
- *A Midsummer Night's Dream* (1981), Writer, Original Music Composer
- *Death in Venice* (1981), Original Music Composer
- *Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was…* (1979), Music
- *Owen Wingrave* (1971), Conductor, Music
- *Peter Grimes* (1969), Conductor, Music Score Producer
- *Idomeneo* (1969), as Conductor
- *The Burning Fiery Furnace* (1967), Actor
- *Benjamin Britten's War Requiem* (1964), as Conductor/Composer
- *Benjamin Britten - In Rehearsal and Performance with Peter Pears* (1964), Actor
- *Gay/Britten:  The Beggar's Opera* (1963), Original Music Composer
- *Los artistas plásticos de Chile* (1960), Music
- *Instruments of the Orchestra* (1946), Original Music Composer
- *Advance Democracy!* (1938), Music
- *Around the Village Green* (1937), Music
- *Love from a Stranger* (1937), Music
- *People of Britain* (1936), Music
- *Night Mail* (1936), Sound Director
- *Calendar of the Year* (1936), Music
- *Message from Geneva* (1936), Original Music Composer
- *Sixpenny Telegram* (1935), Music
- *The King's Stamp* (1935), Music
- *Coal Face* (1935), Original Music Composer
- *Cable Ship* (1933), Music
- *Billy Budd*, Music

## Gallery

- ![Benjamin Britten](https://film.one/media/person/117889/gallery-e29bfb15f1bd.jpg) Benjamin Britten — Szalay Zoltán, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Fortepan_137711_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Fortepan_137711_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Peter Pears as Aschenbach in Death in Venice, 1974](https://film.one/media/person/117889/gallery-a88b9859e01e.jpg) Peter Pears as Aschenbach in Death in Venice, 1974 — No attribution, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Pears_death_in_venice.jpg/1280px-Pears_death_in_venice.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 8 won

- Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 1974: Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (won)
- Maurice Ravel Prize 1974: Maurice Ravel Prize (won)
- Johann Heinrich Merck Honour 1972: Johann Heinrich Merck Honour (won)
- Léonie Sonning Music Prize 1968: Léonie Sonning Music Prize (won)
- Order of Merit 1965: Order of Merit (won)
- Wihuri Sibelius Prize 1965: Wihuri Sibelius Prize (won)
- Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal 1964: Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal (won)
- Companion of Honour 1953: Companion of Honour (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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