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	[[File:Lennox Berkeley.jpg\|thumb\|Lennox Berkely as a student]]'''Sir Lennox Berkeley''' (Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, 1903–1989) was a composer, noted for his songs and piano pieces.		[[File:Lennox Berkeley.jpg\|thumb\|Lennox Berkely as a student]]'''Sir Lennox Berkeley''' (Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, 1903–1989) was a composer, noted for his songs and piano pieces.

	He was born in [[Oxford]] and educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, [[Gresham's School]] and Merton College, Oxford. In 1936 he met [[Benjamin Britten]], another old boy of Gresham's School, at the ISCM Festival in Barcelona. Berkeley fell in love with Britten, who appears to have been wary of entering a relationship, writing in his diary, "we have come to an agreement on that subject."<ref>Michael Oliver, ''Benjamin Britten'' (Phaidon, 1996, isbn 9780714832777) page 60.</ref> Nevertheless, the two composers shared a house for a year, living in the Old Mill at [[Snape]], Suffolk, which Britten purchased in 1938. They subsequently enjoyed a long friendship and artistic association, collaborating on a number of works.		He was born in [[Oxford]] and educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, [[Gresham's School]] and [[Merton College, Oxford]]. In 1936 he met [[Benjamin Britten]], another old boy of Gresham's School, at the ISCM Festival in Barcelona. Berkeley fell in love with Britten, who appears to have been wary of entering a relationship, writing in his diary, "we have come to an agreement on that subject."<ref>Michael Oliver, ''Benjamin Britten'' (Phaidon, 1996, isbn 9780714832777) page 60.</ref> Nevertheless, the two composers shared a house for a year, living in the Old Mill at [[Snape]], Suffolk, which Britten purchased in 1938. They subsequently enjoyed a long friendship and artistic association, collaborating on a number of works.

	:"Berkeley’s papers are, fittingly enough, held in the Britten archive in the Red House at Aldeburgh, subsumed into the story of a younger man who was for a brief time his lover, for much longer his friend, and of whom, as a musician, he was utterly in awe."<ref>http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article760317.ece Ian Bostridge, "The 'very particular' relationships of Lennox Berkeley and Benjamin Britten", ''Times Literary Supplement'', 23 August 2011.</ref>		:"Berkeley’s papers are, fittingly enough, held in the Britten archive in the Red House at Aldeburgh, subsumed into the story of a younger man who was for a brief time his lover, for much longer his friend, and of whom, as a musician, he was utterly in awe."<ref>http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article760317.ece Ian Bostridge, "The 'very particular' relationships of Lennox Berkeley and Benjamin Britten", ''Times Literary Supplement'', 23 August 2011.</ref>

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	'''Sir Lennox Berkeley''' (Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, 1903–1989) was a composer, noted for his songs and piano pieces.		[[File:Lennox Berkeley.jpg\|thumb\|Lennox Berkely as a student]]'''Sir Lennox Berkeley''' (Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, 1903–1989) was a composer, noted for his songs and piano pieces.

	He was born in [[Oxford]] and educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, [[Gresham's School]] and Merton College, Oxford. In 1936 he met [[Benjamin Britten]], another old boy of Gresham's School, at the ISCM Festival in Barcelona. Berkeley fell in love with Britten, who appears to have been wary of entering a relationship, writing in his diary, "we have come to an agreement on that subject."<ref>Michael Oliver, ''Benjamin Britten'' (Phaidon, 1996, isbn 9780714832777) page=60</ref> Nevertheless, the two composers shared a house for a year, living in the Old Mill at [[Snape]], Suffolk, which Britten purchased in 1938. They subsequently enjoyed a long friendship and artistic association, collaborating on a number of works.		He was born in [[Oxford]] and educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, [[Gresham's School]] and Merton College, Oxford. In 1936 he met [[Benjamin Britten]], another old boy of Gresham's School, at the ISCM Festival in Barcelona. Berkeley fell in love with Britten, who appears to have been wary of entering a relationship, writing in his diary, "we have come to an agreement on that subject."<ref>Michael Oliver, ''Benjamin Britten'' (Phaidon, 1996, isbn 9780714832777) page 60.</ref> Nevertheless, the two composers shared a house for a year, living in the Old Mill at [[Snape]], Suffolk, which Britten purchased in 1938. They subsequently enjoyed a long friendship and artistic association, collaborating on a number of works.

	:"Berkeley’s papers are, fittingly enough, held in the Britten archive in the Red House at Aldeburgh, subsumed into the story of a younger man who was for a brief time his lover, for much longer his friend, and of whom, as a musician, he was utterly in awe."<ref>http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article760317.ece Ian Bostridge, "The 'very particular' relationships of Lennox Berkeley and Benjamin Britten", ''Times Literary Supplement'', 23 August 2011.</ref>		:"Berkeley’s papers are, fittingly enough, held in the Britten archive in the Red House at Aldeburgh, subsumed into the story of a younger man who was for a brief time his lover, for much longer his friend, and of whom, as a musician, he was utterly in awe."<ref>http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article760317.ece Ian Bostridge, "The 'very particular' relationships of Lennox Berkeley and Benjamin Britten", ''Times Literary Supplement'', 23 August 2011.</ref>

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'''Sir Lennox Berkeley''' (Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley, 1903–1989) was a composer, noted for his songs and piano pieces.

He was born in [[Oxford]] and educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, [[Gresham's School]] and Merton College, Oxford. In 1936 he met [[Benjamin Britten]], another old boy of Gresham's School, at the ISCM Festival in Barcelona. Berkeley fell in love with Britten, who appears to have been wary of entering a relationship, writing in his diary, "we have come to an agreement on that subject."<ref>Michael Oliver, ''Benjamin Britten'' (Phaidon, 1996, isbn 9780714832777) page=60</ref> Nevertheless, the two composers shared a house for a year, living in the Old Mill at [[Snape]], Suffolk, which Britten purchased in 1938. They subsequently enjoyed a long friendship and artistic association, collaborating on a number of works.

:"Berkeley’s papers are, fittingly enough, held in the Britten archive in the Red House at Aldeburgh, subsumed into the story of a younger man who was for a brief time his lover, for much longer his friend, and of whom, as a musician, he was utterly in awe."<ref>http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article760317.ece Ian Bostridge, "The 'very particular' relationships of Lennox Berkeley and Benjamin Britten", ''Times Literary Supplement'', 23 August 2011.</ref>

Berekely was the first composer to set the poetry of his friend [[W H Auden]].

In 1946 he marrried Freda Bernstein. Their children include the composer and broadcaster Lord Berkeley, and the photographer Nick Berkeley.

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