In a Chinese Temple Garden | |
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Light music by Albert Ketèlbey | |
Key | E minor |
Published | 1923 |
Scoring | orchestra |
In a Chinese Temple Garden is a piece of light classical music for orchestra by Albert Ketèlbey who composed it in 1923. Subtitled an Oriental Phantasy, it illustrates a priestly incantation, two lovers, a wedding procession, a street brawl and the restoration of calm by the beating of the temple gong. .