Piper, Myfanwy

Piper, Myfanwy
▪ 1998

      British art critic, founder and editor (1935-37) of the abstract art journal Axis, creative assistant to her husband, the painter John Piper, and, perhaps most notably, librettist for three operas by Benjamin Britten—The Turn of the Screw (1954), Owen Wingrave (1970), and Death in Venice (1973) (b. March 28, 1911—d. Jan. 18, 1997).

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