Which English composer composed the ballet Death in Venice and the Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
"A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson is a 2-LP compilation album by the band King Crimson, released in 1976. At the time the band had split. The track selection was by Robert Fripp. Its name is most likely derived either from the famous orchestral work ""The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra"" from composer Benjamin Britten or the 1960s television series ""Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra"", created by conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein. The gatefold-sleeve featured, as the front and back cover, artwork by Scottish artist Fergus Hall. Included as part of the"
"Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British classical music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera ""Peter Grimes"" (1945), the ""War Requiem"" (1962) and the orchestral showpiece ""The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra"" (1945). Born in Suffolk, the son of a dentist, Britten showed talent from an early age. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London and privately with the composer"
"wounds to his throat, aged 71. George W. Byng George Wilford Buckley Byng (1861 – 29 June 1932) was an English conductor, composer, music arranger and musical director of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is known for composing music for ballet productions staged at the Alhambra Theatre in London during the Edwardian era, for his theatre compositions and as a conductor for HMV from World War I up to about 1930. As a child, he received a musical education and at age 11 joined the orchestra at the Theatre Royal, Dublin. He played in orchestras throughout Britain"
"Vincent Novello Vincent Novello (6 September 17819 August 1861), English musician, son of an Italian who married an English wife, was born in London. He was a chorister and organist, but he is best known for bringing to England many works now considered major standards, and with his son he created a major publishing house. As a boy, Novello was a chorister at the Sardinian Embassy Chapel in Duke Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, where he learnt the organ from Samuel Webbe; and from 1796 to 1822 he became in succession organist of the Sardinian, Spanish (in Manchester Square) and Portuguese"
"Benjamin Blake Benjamin Blake (born 22 February 1751, in Hackney, London; died in London 1827) was an English violinist, viola player and composer. Most of what is known about him comes from information he supplied for Sainsbury’s dictionary in 1824. As a boy he was taught the violin by Antonín Kammel, and later by Wilhelm Cramer, leader of the Italian Opera orchestra at the King’s Theatre. Blake himself played the violin in this orchestra from about 1775, and also at the Concert of Ancient Music. He came into public prominence however as a viola player. He was principal and soloist"
"Benjamin Blake Benjamin Blake (born 22 February 1751, in Hackney, London; died in London 1827) was an English violinist, viola player and composer. Most of what is known about him comes from information he supplied for Sainsbury’s dictionary in 1824. As a boy he was taught the violin by Antonín Kammel, and later by Wilhelm Cramer, leader of the Italian Opera orchestra at the King’s Theatre. Blake himself played the violin in this orchestra from about 1775, and also at the Concert of Ancient Music. He came into public prominence however as a viola player. He was principal and soloist"
"Maurice Besly Edward Maurice Besly (28 January 1888 - 12 April (?), 1945) was an English composer, conductor, schoolteacher, organist and arranger best known for his popular ballads, ""The Second Minuet"" and ""Time, You Old Gipsy Man"". More ambitious vocal pieces were the ""Four Poems"" Op 24, ""Charivaria"" (5 songs) and his setting of Christina Rossetti's ""The shepherds had an angel"" for soprano solo and chorus. Besly was born in Normanby, Yorkshire, and was educated at Tonbridge School and Caius College, Cambridge. After a short stage career he studied music at the Leipzig Conservatorium under Teichmüller, Schreck and Krehl. From"
"Steuart Bedford Steuart John Rudolf Bedford, OBE (born 31 July 1939, London) is a British orchestral and opera conductor and pianist. He is the brother of composer David Bedford and of singer Peter Lehmann Bedford and a grandson of Liza Lehmann. Bedford is particularly associated with the music of Benjamin Britten, and conducted the world premiere of ""Death in Venice"" in 1973. Bedford has also conducted Britten's other operas, and made an orchestral suite of music from ""Death in Venice"". Between 1974 and 1998, he was one of the Artistic Directors of the Aldeburgh Festival. In 1989, he became joint"
"Leonard Salzedo Leonard Salzedo (24 September 1921 – 6 May 2000) was an English composer and conductor of Spanish descent. Salzedo was born in London. He studied composition under Herbert Howells and violin under Isolde Menges at the Royal College of Music in London, before becoming a professional composer in 1944. He worked closely with the Ballet Rambert, for whom his first ballet, ""The Fugitive"", was commissioned. His most successful ballet was ""The Witch Boy"" based on the ‘Ballad of Barbara Allan’. He was musical director of the Ballet Rambert from 1967 to 1972 and principal conductor with the Scottish"
"Honours for services to music. Steuart Bedford Steuart John Rudolf Bedford, OBE (born 31 July 1939, London) is a British orchestral and opera conductor and pianist. He is the brother of composer David Bedford and of singer Peter Lehmann Bedford and a grandson of Liza Lehmann. Bedford is particularly associated with the music of Benjamin Britten, and conducted the world premiere of ""Death in Venice"" in 1973. Bedford has also conducted Britten's other operas, and made an orchestral suite of music from ""Death in Venice"". Between 1974 and 1998, he was one of the Artistic Directors of the Aldeburgh Festival."
"Geoffrey Toye Edward Geoffrey Toye (17 February 1889 – 11 June 1942), known as Geoffrey Toye, was an English conductor, composer and opera producer. He is best remembered as a musical director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and for his association with Sadler's Wells Theatre. One of his ballets, ""The Haunted Ballroom"" (1934), became popular and was revived several times, and the new overture that he prepared for Gilbert and Sullivan's ""Ruddigore"" in 1919 became the standard version. Born in Winchester, Hampshire, Toye was the younger son of Arlingham James Toye and his wife Alice Fayrer ""née"" Coates. Toye's"
"suburb of London) on 16 November 2006. He was divorced and had several children, one daughter having died at the age of four. John Veale John Douglas Louis Veale (15 June 1922 – 16 November 2006) was an English classical composer. He was born in Shortlands, Bromley, Kent; his father, Douglas Veale, later served as Registrar of the University of Oxford (1930–1958) and received a knighthood. John Veale was educated at Repton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford (his father's old college), alongside Kenneth Tynan. As a composer, he was largely self-taught, but took some lessons from Egon Wellesz, Thomas Armstrong,"
"Leopold Wenzel Léopold de Wenzel (23 January 1847 – 21 August 1923), also known as Leopold Wenzel, was an Italian conductor and composer. Born in Naples, Wenzel spent most of his career working in London, with the exception of some years spent in Paris. Wenzel was appointed as musical director, music arranger and ballet composer at the Empire Theatre of Varieties in London in 1889, where he wrote and arranged numerous ballets. Later, he conducted at the Gaiety Theatre, London until 1913. In addition to ballets, his many works include art songs, orchestral works, and operas in the late Victorian"
"Vernon Elliott Vernon Pelling Elliott (27 July 1912 – 12 October 1996) was a British bassoonist, conductor and composer. Born into a musical family in 1912, Elliott took up the bassoon at a very early age. From then on he had an eventful, busy and very musical life, one which saw him as a founder member of the Philharmonia Orchestra, a regular player at the Royal Opera House, a much-valued member of Benjamin Britten's English Opera Group orchestra, a conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, longtime professor at Trinity College of Music, London and occasional writer. In ?1959 he was"
"Royal Ballet. He composed six symphonies, several concertos, copious chamber music including a clarinet quintet and five string quartets, many instrumental sonatas, and some important vocal music. His music seems to show the influence of Hindemith almost throughout his career, leavened with a more English sense of lyricism. Arnold Cooke Arnold Atkinson Cooke (4 November 1906 – 13 August 2005) was a British composer. Cooke was born at Gomersal, West Yorkshire into a family of carpet manufacturers. As a child Cooke learned the piano and later the cello and was already composing by the age of 7 or 8. He"
"The Merchant of Venice (opera) The Merchant of Venice is an opera by André Tchaikowsky (1935–1982) to a libretto, based on the Shakespeare play, by John O'Brien. Written between 1968 and 1982, it was first performed in 2013 at the Bregenz Festival. The British premiere was presented by the Welsh National Opera in September 2016. Tchaikowsky, who was based in England after the 1950s, was a great admirer of Shakespeare, and was able to recite large stretches of his works from memory. His compositions include settings of seven of Shakespeare's ""Sonnets"", songs from ""The Tempest"", and incidental music for ""Hamlet""."
"the Death of Purcell"" (1696). In 1700 he published his ""Amphion Anglicus"", a collection of pieces of music for one, two, three and four voices, with a figured bass accompaniment. John Blow John Blow (baptised 23 February 1649 – 1 October 1708) was an English Baroque composer and organist, appointed to Westminster Abbey in 1669. His pupils included William Croft, Jeremiah Clarke and Henry Purcell. In 1685 he was named a private musician to James II. His only stage composition, ""Venus and Adonis"" (ca. 1680–1687), is thought to have influenced Henry Purcell's later opera ""Dido and Aeneas"". In 1687 he"
"Constant Lambert Leonard Constant Lambert (23 August 190521 August 1951) was a British composer, conductor, and author. The son of Russian-born Australian painter George Lambert and younger brother of Maurice Lambert, Constant Lambert was educated at Christ's Hospital and the Royal College of Music. His teachers at the latter institution were Ralph Vaughan Williams, R. O. Morris and Sir George Dyson (composition), Malcolm Sargent (conducting) and Herbert Fryer (piano). While still a boy he demonstrated formidable musical gifts. He wrote his first orchestral works at the age of 13, and at 20 received a commission to write a ballet for"
"at his home in Thundersley, Essex, aged 74, five weeks after the death of his wife. Herbert Bunning Herbert Bunning (2 May 1863 – 23 November 1937) was an English composer and musical director active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He had one opera produced at Covent Garden, but was better known as a composer of lighter works and incidental music for stage productions. Bunning was born in London, and educated at Harrow School and Brasenose College, Oxford. On leaving the latter he was commissioned into the British Army as a lieutenant in the Queen's Own Hussars,"
"Alfred Mellon Alfred Mellon (7 April 1820 – 24 March 1867) was an English violinist, conductor and composer. Mellon was born in Birmingham. He played the violin in the opera and other orchestras, and afterwards became leader of the ballet at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden. He was next director of the music at the Haymarket and Adelphi theatres, and subsequently conductor of the Pyne and Harrison English Opera Company, who in 1859 produced his opera, ""Victorine"", at Covent Garden. He was conductor of the Musical Society, and of the Promenade Concerts, which for several seasons were given under"
"Serle, a dramatist, actor, novelist, and editor of a London weekly newspaper. Vincent Novello Vincent Novello (6 September 17819 August 1861), English musician, son of an Italian who married an English wife, was born in London. He was a chorister and organist, but he is best known for bringing to England many works now considered major standards, and with his son he created a major publishing house. As a boy, Novello was a chorister at the Sardinian Embassy Chapel in Duke Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, where he learnt the organ from Samuel Webbe; and from 1796 to 1822 he became"
"from the Italian National Catalogue of Manuscripts indicates the libretto was by A. Codebò. It may be based on a translation of the 2-act comedy of the same name by Jean-François Bayard and Charles Lafont (1809–1864). He seems to have divorced his wife Maria, ""née"" Henderson, in England in 1875, during his time at Covent Garden. Notes Citations Auguste Vianesi Auguste Charles Léonard François Vianesi (2 November 1837 – 4 November 1908) was an opera conductor, born in Italy and later naturalised French. His repertoire consisted mostly of French and Italian opera, in which he directed some of the world's"
"John Blow John Blow (baptised 23 February 1649 – 1 October 1708) was an English Baroque composer and organist, appointed to Westminster Abbey in 1669. His pupils included William Croft, Jeremiah Clarke and Henry Purcell. In 1685 he was named a private musician to James II. His only stage composition, ""Venus and Adonis"" (ca. 1680–1687), is thought to have influenced Henry Purcell's later opera ""Dido and Aeneas"". In 1687 he became choirmaster at St Paul's Cathedral, where many of his pieces were performed. In 1699 he was appointed to the newly created post of Composer to the Chapel Royal. Blow"
"John Ravenscroft (composer) John Ravenscroft (c. 1665 – 12 October 1697), also known as Giovanni Ravenscroft and Giovanni Rederi, was an English violinist and composer of the Baroque era, who moved to Rome. He was possibly a pupil of Arcangelo Corelli, by whom he was strongly influenced, and around the middle of the 18th century some of Ravenscroft's trio sonatas were misattributed to Corelli. He is not to be confused with the English wait John Ravenscroft (fl. c. 1730). Ravenscroft was born c. 1665, in London. He moved to Rome, where in 1695 he published his Opus 1 under the"
"Theatre and Performance. A full catalogue and details of access arrangements are available here. Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (; ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: ""The Firebird"" (1910), ""Petrushka"" (1911), and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The last of these transformed the way in which subsequent"
"Edward Loder Edward James Loder (10 July 1809 – 5 April 1865) was an English composer and conductor. His best remembered work is perhaps the 1855 opera ""Raymond and Agnes"", though his most successful opera during his lifetime was ""The Night Dancers"". Loder was born in Bath, Somerset. He was the son of John David Loder (1788–1846), a violinist and musical director of the Theatre Royal, Bath, and his wife Rosamund, née Mills (1787–1856), a step-daughter of the comedian John Fawcett. Edward Loder's twin brother John Fawcett Loder (1809–1853) was a violinist, and a younger brother William Sowerby Loder (1812–1851)"
"Adam Gatehouse Adam Gatehouse (born c. 1950) is an English conductor, radio producer and editor, and classical music administrator. He was the main conductor of the Ballet Rambert and the Dutch National Ballet before working for BBC Radio 3 (1991–2013), where he became editor of live music, and founded the New Generation Artists scheme and the Wigmore Hall lunchtime concert series. He has been the joint artistic director of the Leeds International Piano Competition since 2015. Gatehouse was born in London, and attended the Royal College of Music, where he studied piano and clarinet. His first degree is in music"
"pieces were used as the youth section area contest test piece: ""The Young in Heart"" in 1965, ""Petite Suite de Ballet"" in 1975, and ""Rhapsody on Negro Spirituals"" in 1983. Eric Ball (composer) Eric Walter John Ball OBE (31 October 1903 – 1 October 1989) was a British composer, arranger and conductor of brass band music, described as ""one of the most prolific writers and influential figures in the brass band and choral world"". He was born in Kingswood, Gloucestershire, the eldest of 16 children whose parents were active in the Salvation Army. When he was a child, the family"
"Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra"". In 2013, the Pet Shop Boys released their single ""Love Is a Bourgeois Construct"" incorporating one of the same ground basses from ""King Arthur"" used by Nyman in his ""Draughtsman's Contract"" score. Olivia Chaney performs her adaptation of ""There's Not a Swain"" on her CD ""The Longest River."" Bibliography Henry Purcell Henry Purcell ( or ; September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer. Although incorporating Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, Purcell's legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music. He is generally considered to be one of"
"Antonio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (; 4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian Baroque musical composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher, and priest. Born in Venice, the capital of the Venetian Republic, he is regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. He composed many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as the ""Four Seasons"". Many of his compositions were written for the"
"score, and for the last eight years of his life he was Bennett's mentor for film music. His later film work included ""The Devil's Disciple"" and ""The Hound of the Baskervilles"" (1959), and ""Don't Bother to Knock"" (1961), ""Billy Liar"", ""The Damned"", ""Heavens Above!"" and ""The Wrong Arm of the Law"" (1963). John Hollingsworth made numerous recordings, mainly of ballet and light orchestral music. His recordings include: He died suddenly of pneumonia in London in 1963, aged only 47. John Hollingsworth John Hollingsworth (20 March 191629 December 1963) was a British orchestral conductor prominent in the concert hall, the ballet"
"William Walton Sir William Turner Walton, OM (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. His best-known works include ""Façade"", the cantata ""Belshazzar's Feast"", the Viola Concerto and the First Symphony. Born in Oldham, Lancashire, the son of a musician, Walton was a chorister and then an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford. On leaving the university, he was taken up by the literary Sitwell siblings, who provided him with a home and a cultural education. His earliest work of note was"
"dramas for ballet. Galeotti's most lasting success, and the only work by him still commonly performed today, is ""Amors og Balletmesterens Luner"" (""The Whims of Cupid and the Ballet Master,"" 1786), which is the oldest European ballet still danced to its original choreography and music (by ); it has been staged more than 500 times. Vincenzo Galeotti Vincenzo Galeotti (5 March 1733 – 16 December 1816) was an Italian-born Danish dancer, choreographer and ballet master, who was influential as the director of the Royal Danish Ballet from 1775 until his death. Vincenzo Tomasselli was born in Florence. He studied medicine"