Arthur Benjamin
Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher · Australia · On the map · Musicians · Lived 1893 to 1960 · aged 66
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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Country
Australia
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1893 to 1960 · aged 66
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