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The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra | work by Britten | Britannica Benjamin Britten, Baroque Composers, Instruments Of The Orchestra, Edward Elgar, Classical Music Composers, Famous Composers, Classical Musicians, Liverpool England, Ministry Of Education

The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, in full The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Henry Purcell, Op. 34, composition for orchestra by British composer Benjamin Britten. The work was written at the request of the British Ministry of Education for use in the short educational film Instruments of the Orchestra (1946). Its concert premiere was given in Liverpool, England, on October 15, 1946. For his theme in the work, Britten drew on English…

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