According to Eric Crozier, Britten's librettist for ''Albert Herring'' Britten was seduced or raped as a boy by a master at his private school, and was thereafter "under a compulsion to corrupt other small boys." <ref>
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According to Eric Crozier, Britten's librettist for ''Albert Herring'', Britten was seduced or raped as a boy by a master at his private school, and was thereafter "under a compulsion to corrupt other small boys." <ref>