Which English composer composed the ballet Death in Venice and the Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra to the Orchestra" in 2015 for a series of performances with the Boston Pops. The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is a 1945 musical composition by Benjamin Britten with a subtitle Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell. It was based on the second movement, "Rondeau", of the "Abdelazer" suite. It was originally commissioned for the British educational documentary film called "Instruments of the Orchestra" released on 29 November 1946, directed by Muir Mathieson and featuring the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent; Sargent also conducted the concert première on
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra The work is one of the best-known pieces by the composer, and is often associated with two other works in the context of children's music education: Saint-Saëns' "The Carnival of the Animals" and Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf". This work, in the composer's own words, "is affectionately inscribed to the children of John and Jean Maud: Humphrey, Pamela, Caroline and Virginia, for their edification and entertainment". "The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" is scored for symphony orchestra: The work is based on the Rondeau from Henry Purcell's incidental music to Aphra Behn's "Abdelazer", and is structured, in accordance with