Arthur Benjamin
Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher
Arthur Leslie Benjamin (September 18, 1893 – April 10, 1960) 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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Works
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- A Tune and Variations for Little People
- Before Dawn
- Concertino for Piano and Orchestra
- Concertino for Piano and Orchestra: I. Allegro non troppo e ritmico
- Concertino for Piano and Orchestra: II. Andante poco lento
- Concertino for Piano and Orchestra: III. Scherzo. Presto scherzando
- Concertino for Piano and Orchestra: IV. Come primo ma meno allegro
- Concerto for Harmonica
- Concerto for Oboe in C minor
- Cotillon
- Diaphenia
- Elegiac Mazurka
- Elegy, Waltz and Toccata
- Elegy, Waltz and Toccata: I. Elegy
- Elegy, Waltz and Toccata: II. Waltz
- Elegy, Waltz and Toccata: III. Toccata
- Fanfare for a Festive Occasion
- Fantasies
- Fantasies: Book I: A Cloudlet - Like a Swan It Sailed
- Fantasies: Book I: A Song With a Sad Ending
- Fantasies: Book I: Soldiers in the Distance
- Fantasies: Book II: A Gay Study
- Fantasies: Book II: Silent and Soft and Slow Descends the Snow
- Fantasies: Book II: Waltz
- From San Domingo
- Hey Nonny No!
- Jamaican Rumba
- Jamaican Song
- Jan, a Creole Melody
- Le tombeau de Ravel
- Linstead Market
- Man and Woman
- Mattie Rag
- North American Square Dance
- North American Square Dance: I. Introduction and "Miller's Reel"
- North American Square Dance: II. "The Old Plunk"
- North American Square Dance: III. "The Bundle of Straw"
- North American Square Dance: IV. "He piped so sweet"
- North American Square Dance: V. "Fill the Bowl"
- North American Square Dance: VI. "Pigeon on the Pier"
- North American Square Dance: VII. Calder Pair
- North American Square Dance: VIII. "Salamanca" and Coda
- Overture to an Italian Comedy
- Prelude to Holiday
- Quasi una Fantasia
- Romantic Fantasy for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra
- Romantic Fantasy for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra: I. Nocturne
- Romantic Fantasy for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra: II. Scherzino
- Romantic Fantasy for Violin, Viola, and Orchestra: III. Sonata: Allegro, tempo giusto
- Shepherd's Holiday
- Suite from "The Conquest of Everest": I. Title Music -
- Suite from "The Conquest of Everest": II. Walls that Surpass the Imagination -
- Suite from "The Conquest of Everest": III. The Great Lift -
- Suite from "The Conquest of Everest": IV. Top of the World and Final Bars
- Symphony no. 1
- The Moon
- The Mouse
- The Piper
- The Song of the Banana Carriers
- The Storm Clouds Cantata from "The Man Who Knew Too Much"
- Three Greek Poems
- Three Greek Poems: No. 1. The Flower Girl
- Three Greek Poems: No. 2. On Deck
- Three Greek Poems: No. 3. A Wine Jug
- Three Impressions
- Three Impressions: No. 1. Hedgerow
- Three Impressions: No. 2. Calm Sea and Mist
- Three Impressions: No. 3. The Wasp
- Three Pieces for Violin and Piano
- Three Pieces for Violin and Piano: Arabesque (The Muted Pavane)
- Three Pieces for Violin and Piano: Carnavalesque: Tempo di valse
- Three Pieces for Violin and Piano: Humoresque: Non troppo allegro
- To Phyllis, Milking Her Flock
- Two Jamaican Pieces
- Two Jamaican Street Songs
- Two Jamaican Street Songs: I. Mattie Rag
- Two Jamaican Street Songs: II. Cookie
- Viola Sonata
- Viola Sonata: I. Elegy. Adagio e mesto
- Viola Sonata: II. Waltz. Quasi improvisatore –
- Viola Sonata: III. Toccata. Allegro ma non troppo
- Violin Concerto
- Violin Concerto: I. Rhapsody
- Violin Concerto: II. Intermezzo
- Violin Concerto: III. Rondo
- Violin Sonatina
- Violin Sonatina: I. Tranquilly Flowing
- Violin Sonatina: II. Scherzo di stile antico
- Violin Sonatina: III. Rondo. Con moto ma non allegro
- Waltz and Hyde Park Galop from "An Ideal Husband": I. Waltz
- Waltz and Hyde Park Galop from "An Ideal Husband": II. Hyde Park Galop
- Wind's Work