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Article: Obituary: Eric Crozier
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 8, 1994
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Eric John Crozier, writer, librettist, producer: born London 14
November 1914; co-founder, English Opera Group 1947, Aldeburgh
Festival of Music and the Arts 1948; married Margaret Johns
(marriage dissolved), 1949 Nancy Evans; died 7 September 1994.
ERIC CROZIER's reputation will always be associated with that of
Benjamin Britten, whose early career he did much to help, but he
was a man of wide interests and culture who had little to do with
the composer after 1952, when there was a falling out.
Crozier was the first producer of Peter Grimes, the composer's
best-known and probably most important opera, in 1945 at Sadler's
Wells Theatre, an event which heralded a renaissance of English
music ...