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- Birth nameArthur Leslie Benjamin
- Arthur Benjamin was born on September 19, 1893 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was a composer, known for The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), The Clairvoyant (1935) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934). He died on April 9, 1960 in London, England, UK.
- Anglo-Australian composer, conductor and music teacher. His First String Quartet (Pastorale Fantasia) was awarded a Carnegie Prize in 1924. In 1926 he took up a professorship of piano at the Royal College of Music, where his students included a young Benjamin Britten. His best-known composition was the 1938 Jamaican Rumba. Benjamin also conducted the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for five years (1941-46).
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