Münsterer, H.OAntiquariat.de
CHILDREN'S CRUSADE. Kinderkreuzzug. Op. 82. A Ballad for children's voices and orchestra
1973réf. 184790London: Faber Music Limited 1973. 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. xvi2342facsimile 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 1000 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. Faber Music Limited unknown
