Besetzung: | Blasorchester |
Komponist: | Arthur Benjamin |
Arrangeur: | Douglas McLain |
Grad:Schwierigkeitsgrad: | 4 (schwer / Oberstufe) |
Genre: | Suite, Konzertwerk |
Dauer: | 11:00 |
Verlag: | Baton Music |
Kategorie: | Suiten |
Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960) was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of "Jamaican Rumba", composed in 1938.
He was a brilliant light-music composer but also be a deeply-affecting, serious symphonist. In 1951 he composed a suite for two pianos on old fiddle tunes from America and Canada, the "North American Square Dance". It was Benjamin himself who orchestrated this suite later for a full orchestra and this suite has remained as one of his best known works.