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Arthur Benjamin
Arthur Leslie Benjamin (Sydney, 18 September 1893 – London, 10 April 1960) was an Australian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. He is best known as the composer of Jamaican Rumba (1938), the Storm Clouds Cantata featured in both versions of the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man who Knew Too Much (1934), (1956).
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- #159 of 1036Famous Male Pianists
- #167 of 231Best Opera Composers
- #197 of 1557Famous Pianists
- #401 of 1000Famous People Who Died in London
- #661 of 999Famous People Who Died in England
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