Orsa, Sweden Orsa, Sweden Orsa is a locality and the seat of Orsa Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden, with 5,308 inhabitants (2010). It is located in the northern part of lake Siljan, about north of the town Mora. Inlandsbanan and European route E45 run through the town and the railroad Bollnäs-Orsa connects. The southern parts of Orsa are characterized by the Siljan Ring, the ring of lakes and rivers in northern Dalarna formed by the big meteorite strike 365 million years ago. In central Orsa, at the ouflow of river Oreälven a sand bank has been built up, in these days enjoyed by
Beni Mora from genuine Arab tunes treated with extraordinary skill, especially in the vivid "finale", in which a number of dance tunes are combined to illustrate a night scene in Biskra." Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote of "Beni Mora", "if it had been played in Paris rather than London it would have given its composer a European reputation, and played in Italy would probably have caused a riot." More recently, the critic Andrew Clements has written of the "proto-minimalist fashion" of the repeated tune in the finale. Beni Mora Beni Mora is a three-movement suite of music in E minor for large orchestra,