Arthur Benjamin
Born: 18th September 1893, Sydney, Australia
Died: 19th April 1960, London, England
Nationality: Australian
Arthur Leslie Benjamin was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of Jamaican Rumba (1938) and of the Storm Clouds Cantata, featured in both versions of the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man who Knew Too Much, in 1934 and 1956.
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- A Tune & Variations. For Little People (1939) (1)
- An Ideal Husband (2)
- Arabesque (1)
- Ballade for String Orchestra (2)
- Before Dawn (1)
- Brumas Tunes (1)
- Caribbean Dance: A New Jamaican Rumba (1)
- Chinoiserie - Gavotte and Musette (1)
- Clarinet Concerto in C Minor (After Cimarosa) (1)
- Concertino (4)
- Concerto in C minor for oboe and strings on themes of Domenico Cimarosa (2)
- Concerto quasi una fantasia (2)
- Cookie (1)
- Cotillon (3)
- Diaphenia (1)
- Elegiac Mazurka (2)
- Elegy, Waltz and Toccata for viola & orchestra (1)
- Etudes Improvisees (1)
- Fanfare for a Festive Occasion (1)
- Fanfares (3) (1)
- Fantasies I (1)
- Fantasies II (1)
- From San Domingo (6)
- From San Domingo (1945) (1)
- Greek Poems (3) (1)
- Haunted House (2)
- Hey Nonny No! (1)
- Impressions (3) (1)
- Jamaican Pieces (2) (1)
- Jamaican Rumba (52)
- Jan, a Creole Melody (1)
- Le Tombeau de Ravel (2)
- Le Tombeau de Ravel: Valse-Caprices (6)
- Let's go hiking (1)
- Linstead Market (1)
- Man and Woman (1)
- Mattie Rag (1)
- New Fantasies (3) (1)
- North American Square Dance Suite (3)
- Odds & Ends I (1)
- Odds & Ends II (1)
- Overture to Italian Comedy (2)
- Pastorale, Arioso and Finale (2)
- Romance-Impromptu (1)
- Romantic Fantasy for Violin, Viola & Orchestra (6)
- Saxophone Blues (1)
- Scherzino (4)
- Shepherd's Holiday (1)
- Siciliana (2)
- Sonata for Viola & Piano (1942) (6)
- Sonatina for cello & piano (2)
- Sonatina for Violin & Piano (1925) (3)
- Suite (1)
- Suite from The Conquest of Everest (1)
- Symphony (1)
- Symphony No. 1 (1)
- The Moon (1)
- The Mouse (1)
- The Piper (1)
- The Song of the Banana Carriers (1)
- The Storm Clouds Cantata from The Man Who Knew Too Much (2)
- Three Mystical Pieces (1)
- Three Violin Pieces (1921-25) (2)
- To Phyllis, Milking Her Flock (1)
- Violin Concerto (2)
- Waltz and Hyde Park Gallop from An Ideal Husband (1)
- Wind's Work (1)
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