Arvo Part wrote a "Cantus in memory of" this composer of Sinfonia da Requiem, who collaborated with W. H. Auden to compose Hymn to St Cecilia and the opera Paul Bunyan.
This composer used a solo oboe to tell the stories of characters such as Arethusa, Niobe, and Narcissus in his Six Metamorphoses after Ovid. To commemmorate the twenty-six hundredth anniversary of Japan, the Japanese government commissioned a symphony by this composer in 1940, but rejected it because of its movements' Christian names. Arvo Part wrote a "Cantus in memory of" this composer of Sinfonia da Requiem, who collaborated with W. H. Auden to compose Hymn to St Cecilia and the opera Paul Bunyan. He adapted the Rondeau from Purcell's Abdelazar to compose a work for children, and used Wilfred Owen poems as the basis for his War Requiem. For 10 points, name this British composer of The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra and Peter Grimes.
This composer used a solo oboe to tell the stories of characters such as Arethusa, Niobe, and Narcissus in his Six Metamorphoses after Ovid.
Benjamin {Britten}