The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, op. 34

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 is an orchestral suite by English composer Benjamin Britten written in 1945. The work adapts a theme by Henry Purcell into a series of variations that introduce and showcase the instruments of the orchestra through clear, colourful orchestration and neoclassical structures, and it occupies a place in Britten's mid-1940s output as an educational concert piece.