Which composer wrote the suite The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra?

Benjamin Britten wrote the suite The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra.

Britten composed the work in 1945 for an educational film called Instruments of the Orchestra, produced by the British Ministry of Education. Its formal subtitle is Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell. The main theme comes from a rondeau by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell, taken from Abdelazer, or The Moor’s Revenge.

The piece first presents the theme with the full orchestra, then separates it into families and individual instruments. A series of variations introduces the woodwinds, brass, strings, and percussion, followed by a fugue that brings the sections together. The narrator’s educational text is often omitted in concert performances. The work’s title can suggest that it is a simple children’s piece, but its orchestration and contrapuntal design are highly accomplished.