The work was commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony and premiered at Davies Symphony Hall on July 8, 2006, with Lemony Snicket narrating and Edwin Outwater conducting.
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The Composer Is Dead was originally created as an orchestral work by Nathaniel Stookey with narration by Lemony Snicket.
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Stookey's The Composer Is Dead is similar to Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra in that it is intended to introduce young audiences to the instruments in the orchestra.
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