At The Red House, Aldeburgh the Britten-Pears Foundation maintains one of the UK’s most important centres for music research. The archive and library holdings of manuscripts and other source materials are unrivalled in their breadth and depth by any other single composer collection. In addition the Foundation holds their extensive art collection as well as number of other important related collections.
The archive collections are open to all, by appointment, in the Reading Room of the purpose-built Archive. This award-winning building was designed by Stanton Williams and opened for Britten’s centenary year in 2013.
Archive collections
Includes music manuscripts, diaries, letters, writings, programmes, press cuttings and much more.
Photographs and Audio-visual collections
Featuring thousands of photographs, recordings, films and oral history.
Art collection
It includes around 1,300 works ranging from landscapes, figurative subjects, abstracts and portraits.
Britten’s travels
Documenting the places Britten and Pears lived, travelled to and performed across the world.
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#brittenpears“Great place to visit in Aldeburgh. The history is fascinating (even if you don’t know much about Britten and Pears) and the house, largely left as it was, is rambling and beautiful.”
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16 January 2019