This
article is about the composition by Benjamin Britten. For the
television series, see Young
Person's Guide to the Orchestra.
The
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra,
Op. 34, is a musical composition by Benjamin Britten
in
1946 with a subtitle "Variations
and Fugue
on
a Theme ofPurcell".
It was originally commissioned for an educational documentary film
called The
Instruments of the Orchestra, directed
by Muir Mathieson
and
featuring the London Sinfony of Orchestra
conducted
by Malcolm
Sargent.
The work is one of the best-known pieces by the composer, and is one
of the three popularly used scores in children's music
education,
together with 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.
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