Tags: Classical Music Composition.
Young Apollo Op. 16 is a music composition for piano and strings that was composed by Benjamin Britten.Commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Britten completed the work in 1939 just after his arrival in the United States. It was inspired by Hyperion an incomplete poem by John Keats.The work premiered on 27 August 1939 on CBC Radio’s Melodic Strings with Britten as soloist and Alexander Chuhaldin conducting. Britten dedicated the work to Chuhaldin.