Young Apollo

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Young Apollo, Op. 16, is a music composition for piano, string quartet and string orchestra composed by Benjamin Britten.

Commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the work was completed in 1939, just after Britten's arrival in the United States. It was inspired by "Hyperion", an incomplete poem by John Keats.[1]

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.[2] The composer withdrew the work following this performance, and it was not performed again until 1979.[3]

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