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Brian Havergal:     more books (100)

Hb: Aspects of Havergal Brian (Music in Nineteenth-century Britain) (Music in Nineteenth-century Britain) by Newsletter (Havergal Brian Society), 1997-12 Havergal Brian: A collection of essays; by Lewis Foreman, 1969 SYMPHONIES OF HAVERGAL BRIAN: SYMPHONIES 13-29 V. 2 by MALCOLM MACDONALD, 1978 Havergal Brian: The making of a composer by Kenneth Eastaugh, 1976 Havergal Brian on Music: Volume Two: European and American Music in his Time (Musicians on Music) (v. 2) by Havergal Brian, 2009-04-16 Havergal Brian and His Music (The student's music library : historical and critical studies) by Reginald Nettel, 1976-07-30 Havergal Brian: [perspective on the music] by Malcolm MacDonald, 1972 Havergal Brian's "Gothic symphony": Two studies by Harold Truscott, Paul Rapoport, 1978 Havergal Brian and the performance of his orchestral music: A history and source book by Lewis Foreman, 1976 The Symphonies of Havergal Brian (v. 2) by Malcolm MacDonald, 2006-11-27 Ordeal by music;: The strange experience of Havergal Brian by Reginald Nettel, 1945 Symphony 22: Symphonia Brevis by Havergal Brian, 1977 Havergal Brian on Music: Volume I: British Music (Musicians on Music) (Vol 1) by Havergal Brian, 1986-01-01 Havergal Brian by Robert Matthew-Walker, 1995-05-05

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1. Havergal Brian - The Official Website
   Brian, Havergal (1876 1972). The English composer Havergal Brian, in a long career, made little concession to the  
   http://www.musicweb.uk.net/brian

2. Brian Havergal Brian
   http://www.musikmph.de/rare_music/composers/A-E/Brian, Havergal/1.html
   
   Extractions: "Wenn man sechzehn dieser famosen, erstklassigen Blechbläser-Bands zusammenbringen könnte , um ein Werk, welches extra zu diesem Zweck geschrieben würde, aufzuführen, was wäre das für eine wirkliche Neuheit! Was für eine Gelegenheit für Wirkungen, wie sie Wagner und Berlioz nur in ihren Träumen hatten. Die tiefen Bässe in B aus den Blaskapellen entsprechen der tiefen F-Tuba im Orchester, und jede Band hat zwei oder drei davon. Zusammengenommen könnte das 33 bis 50 Kontrabaßtuben ergeben. Nimmt man die Bässe in Es, Euphoniums und Baritone hinzu, die den Tuben in den höheren Registern entsprechen, so käme man auf eine Tubengruppe von 146 Instrumenten, dazu 48 Posaunen, 48 Hörner und ungefähr 150 Kornette vom Flügelhorn bis zum Sopran in Es. Eine solche Kombination bietet nahezu unbegrenzte Möglichkeiten, mit und ohne Dämpfer."

3. British Composers,Havergal Brian"
   Havergal Brian Society. Havergal Brian 1876 - 1972 British Composer, Journalist. In the early part of his life at different times  
   http://www2.prestel.co.uk/horwood/home.htm
   
   Extractions: Havergal Brian - 1876 - 1972 British Composer , Journalist. In the early part of his life at different times played the organ, violin and cello until he turned to composing. Compositions - include 32 symphonies , 5 operas, concerto for orchestra, cello concerto and violin concerto, choral works and many songs. Brian's compositions date from 1892 to 1968. Brian's journalism dates from around 1904 and finishes in 1949. Although this tended to be interrupted by more menial jobs when such work was hard to find. "The search for the unknown is the ambition of every composer of genius." Havergal Brian

4. Az-cds.co.uk : Buy At Cheap Price Cds In Uk By Brian Havergal
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5. Potteries Museum - Havergal Brian
   Havergal Brian (18761972) Composer Born in Dresden, Brian learnedto play the violin, cello and piano at an early age. He later  
   http://www2002.stoke.gov.uk/museums/pmag/comhist/people/brian.htm
   
   Extractions: Born in Dresden, Brian learned to play the violin, cello and piano at an early age. He later paid for lessons by playing the organ at local churches. He began his career as a composer at the age of eleven. His adaptation of Shakespeare’s Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day provided him with his first major success.

6. Havergal Brian
   Havergal Brian is surely the last great British undiscovered composer. For theHavergal Brian Society I am producing a website devoted to the composer.  
   http://www.btinternet.com/~jeremy.marchant/brian.htm
   
   Extractions: Havergal Brian is surely the last great British undiscovered composer. For the Havergal Brian Society I am producing a website devoted to the composer. This site, which already runs to 400 webpages, is one of the most comprehensive sites devoted to a composer anywhere on the worldwide web. The site is at http://www.musicweb.uk.net/brian Frankly there are plenty of composers whose neglect, whilst sad , is understandable. Brian is emphatically not in this category. I would urge anyone to invest in the midprice CD of Brian's third symphony on Hyperion, or the most recent release in Marco Polo's continuing series - which contains a wide-ranging programme of Doctor Merryheart , For valour, and s ymphonies and 15 - to find out why. havergal brian William Havergal Brian was born on 29 January 1876 into a working-class Potteries family in Dresden, Staffordshire. He gained his first musical experience in church choirs and after leaving school at the age of 12 he was in some demand as a church organist. He learned the violin and cello, and played in local bands and orchestras. A local teacher gave him a thorough theoretical grounding, but he was virtually self-taught in composition. Nevertheless he rapidly acquired an invincible desire to be a composer and in the first decade of the twentieth century began to make a name for himself. Some of his music was admired by Elgar, works of his were performed by conductors such as Henry Wood and Thomas Beecham, and for a number of years he and his family were supported by a wealthy Staffordshire businessman so that Brian would be free to compose.

7. Requiem : Havergal Brian
   Havergal Brian. Links Requiem for the Rose (). Text, Notes,  
   http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~pradyut/requiem/requiem/brian.1.html

8. Modern Classical Music
   Kalinnikov Vasili (1866, Russia) Vaughan Williams (1872, UK) brian havergal (1876,UK) Miaskovsky Nikolai (1881, Russia) Schnabel Artur (1882, Austria) Varese  
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9. Brian, Havergal
   Biographical data, recommended CDs, books and sheet music, bibliography, and links to biographical Category Arts Music Composition Composers B brian, havergalbrian, havergal brian, havergal. Period Early 20th Century. Biographicalessay at the Naxos site havergal brian's official web site  
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10. Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Brian
    Biography, links.Category Arts Music Composition Composers B brian, havergalWilliam havergal brian. (1876 1972). the production of definitive scores has becomeone of the most important tasks of the havergal brian Society (see below).  
    http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/brian.html
    
    Extractions: (d. Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex (England); 1972) English composer of the generation which followed Stanford, Elgar , Parry, etc (in other words: roughly contemporary with Vaughan Williams , Granville Bantock, Donald Tovey, Frank Bridge and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; older than Arthur Bliss, Walton , etc). Largely self-taught, Brian (William was his birth name; Havergal adopted in 1899) was best known as a composer in the period immediately prior to the Great War (WWI), when his short orchestral pieces were performed by Beecham, Wood, etc... after the war, few of his works were performed. Worked as a critic (later assistant editor) for the magazine "Musical Opinion" from 1922-40, where he championed the music of Schoenberg amongst others... despite this (and the advocacy of musical knights such as Bantock and Tovey), his own music remained in eclipse. Interest in the music of Brian was revived in the last years of his life through the efforts of the young Robert Simpson (then a producer with the BBC) amongst others; with performances of the "Gothic" Symphony and recordings of his symphonies by Myer Fredman, Charles Groves and Charles Mackerras. The Hong Kong-based Marco Polo label have been recording a cycle of the Brian symphonies with the assistance of the Havergal Brian Society (see below) and the Grateful Dead's Rex Foundation... at the present time, it isn't clear whether this cycle will be affected by the death of Jerry Garcia and the subsequent disbanding of the "Dead".

11. The Havergal Brian Society
    Life, works, discography and selected bibliography from Hyperion Records.  
    http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/societies/brian.html
    
    Extractions: DAVID J BROWN The Havergal Brian Society exists to promote public knowledge of the work of William Havergal Brian (1876-1972) and, to this end, to support and sponsor its publication, performance, and recording. Brian was born on 29 January 1876 into a working-class Potteries family in Dresden, Staffordshire. He gained his first musical experience in church choirs and after leaving school at the age of 12 he was in some demand as a church organist. He learned the violin and 'cello, and played in local bands and orchestras. A local teacher gave him a thorough theoretical grounding, but he was virtually self-taught in composition. Nevertheless he rapidly acquired an invincible desire to be a composer and in thefirst decade of the 20th century began to make a name for himself. Some of his music was admired by Elgar, works of his were performed by conductors such as Henry Wood and Thomas Beecham, and for a number of years he and his family were supported by a wealthy Staffordshire businessman so that Brian would be free to compose. All this came to an abrupt end, however, just before the outbreak of World War 1, when various personal crises forced him to leave his home and family. In London he failed to consolidate such musical reputation as he had gained, and for many years he supported a growing second family with a series of menial jobs, often in some poverty.

12. Classical CD Reviews- AUG 1999:BRIAN, Havergal. The Complete Piano Music: Music
    Reviews from previous months, brian, havergal. The Complete Piano Music. Crotchet.William havergal brian was born in Staffordshire in 1876 and died in 1972.  
    http://www.musicweb.uk.net/classrev/aug99/brian.htm
    
    Extractions: Len Mullenger: Len@musicweb.uk.net Reviews from previous months BRIAN, Havergal. The Complete Piano Music. Prelude: John Dowland's Fancy; Double Fugue in E Flat; Four Miniatures; Prelude and Fugue in D minor / major; Three Illuminations, also in a version for speaker with piano. Three songs: The Land of Dreams, The Birds, The Defiled Sanctuary. Tessa Spong (speaker), Esther King (mezzo), Raymond Clarke (piano) Athene ATH CD12 [DDD] [76' 34"]. William Havergal Brian was born in Staffordshire in 1876 and died in 1972. Like Elgar, he had no professional musical training but, unlike Elgar, he was subject to consequent criticism as being an 'amateur'. He left school at 12 and in 1927 completed his massive Gothic Symphony . He composed 32 symphonies , the last 20 in the last twelve years of his life. He wrote five operas, a cello concerto, songs and some piano music. Many British composers simply could not write for the piano and such include Vaughan Williams, Elgar and Walton. I am not convinced that Brian could either. The Double Fugue , as the other fugal works, are academically and technically competent but predominantly serious, slow and uneventful. Some pages of the

13. Brian, Havergal
    This page contains basic and accurate biographical information and links to essays about the Early 20th Century composer brian. brian, havergal. brian, havergal. Period Early 20th Century  
    http://www.stevenestrella.com/composers/composerfiles/brian1972.html

14. British Composers,Havergal Brian"
    havergal brian 1876 - 1972 British Composer , Journalist. In the early part of his life at different times played the organ, violin and cello until he turned to composing.  
    http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/horwood/home.htm
    
    Extractions: Havergal Brian - 1876 - 1972 British Composer , Journalist. In the early part of his life at different times played the organ, violin and cello until he turned to composing. Compositions - include 32 symphonies , 5 operas, concerto for orchestra, cello concerto and violin concerto, choral works and many songs. Brian's compositions date from 1892 to 1968. Brian's journalism dates from around 1904 and finishes in 1949. Although this tended to be interrupted by more menial jobs when such work was hard to find. "The search for the unknown is the ambition of every composer of genius." Havergal Brian

15. Classical Net Review - Havergal Brian On Music, Vol. 1
    havergal brian on Music. Volume One British Music. Malcolm MacDonald, editorLondon Toccata Press. 1986. 438 pp. Available directly from publisher.  
    http://www.classical.net/music/books/reviews/0907689205a.html
    
    Extractions: ISBN 0907689191 , 0907689205 (paperback) I suppose most people see the cultural landscape as a feudal one - a lone, high tower representing the great artist, dominating a plain inhabited by everybody else. We talk of the Age of Beethoven or perhaps of Brahms and Wagner or Haydn and Mozart and in so doing get a rather distorted view of what really went on. Britain for the longest time seemed peculiarly susceptible to the inability to hold more than one composer in its head at any one time. Elgar crowded out his contemporaries. Vaughan Williams overshadowed several interesting composers. Britten did the same, blotting out even such formidable figures as Walton and Tippett. Britain, of course, isn't alone in this. For some reason, people want to know the Absolute Best, rather than the merely wonderful. The concept of absolute best holds almost no aesthetic attraction or interest for me. Further, I find it without any valid practical consequence. If I listen to only the Absolute Best, I wind up listening to only one work, a dismal thought. I view good composers as individuals. In my ignorance, I hold Vorisek as a fabulous composer, whose music gives me something I like that's not what any other composer's music gives me. To call one better than another is like asking me which of my family I like best. Havergal Brian lived during one of the most vital periods of British music, the so-called British Renaissance, which scholars tend to date from Parry and Stanford. Fine composers cover the ground, and not just the big names: Delius, Ireland, Bridge, Holst, Leigh, Chagrin, Cooke, Goossens, Delius, Bax, Arnold, Alwyn, Addison, Leighton, Rubbra, Berners, Clarke, Joseph, Dyson, Sorabji, Smyth, Foulds, Scott, Maconchy, Grainger, Jacob, Frankel, Searle, Rawsthorne, Maw, Brian himself, and the list goes on. Brian heard a staggering amount of it, as well as composers from the continent. He recognized the genius of Mahler and Bruckner as soon as the early 1900s. On one side or the other of the edge of poverty all his life and with no substantial recognition of his music until near its end, he made his meager living as a musical journalist and copyist. The journalism got him free tickets to performances, and the reviews provide the proof that he went to as many as he could.

16. Coleridge-Taylor
    Essay by fellow English composer havergal brian, beginning with the promise shown by Hiawatha's Wedding Feast. Includes observations of racial progress in the early 1900s.  
    http://www.musicweb.uk.net/brian/zcoleridgetaylor.htm
    
    Extractions: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Selected and annotated by Malcolm MacDonald My first glimpse of Coleridge-Taylor was in the streets of Hanley on the occasion of the production during the festival of The Death of Minnehaha [3]. (In my kindness, I was a deputising cellist in Utopia while my friend had the greater honour of playing in the festival.) A young Negro, bright and alert, passed by, accompanied by a lady whom I knew afterwards to be his wife. Both were strikingly winsome, and with Hiawatha in mind, I pictured them as journeying to the wedding feast. Some years later I was chatting with him at the rehearsal before the performance of his cantata Meg Blane [5], which some of my friends had arranged. He talked of many things that interested him, and incidentally described his home life as any elysium on earth. Coleridge-Taylor had a leaning towards Dvorak and Humperdinck, and thought Elgar as a composer was greater than Strauss. No one else could use the brass in the orchestra with the genius of Elgar. Coleridge-Taylor spoke in short, swift sentences, C At the time of the Coronation Concerts, Coleridge-Taylor had just returned from a visit to the United States, and he was overjoyed at the progress men of his race were making in cultural development. A festival of his works given by Negroes had astonished him, and he spoke with gladness of a Coleridge-Taylor Society founded by them for the cultivation of his music. He was all keen for his next visit to America. The summer of that coronation year was distressingly hot, and I fear that he was greatly debilitated by his strenuous endeavours that all should go well for British music. We met again, and after tea walked slowly through the throng in Oxford Street, where from the top of an omnibus he waved to me what was to be a final

17. Browse Classical - Composer
    Here are the titles which include the Composer "brian, havergal" by title by release date  
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18. Brian, Havergal (1876 - 1972)
    brian, havergal (1876 1972). The last symphony was written in 1968. havergalbrian's works are now at last winning a hearing, after earlier neglect.  
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    Extractions: The English composer Havergal Brian, in a long career, made little concession to the practical economies of performance in a series of orchestral compositions on a grand scale, including 32 symphonies, many of which were for long denied professional performance. The massive Gothic Symphony, the first of these, was written between 1919 and 1927 and includes a setting of the Te Deum. The last symphony was written in 1968. Havergal Brian's works are now at last winning a hearing, after earlier neglect. His musical language is complex but tonal and however eccentric he is never less than impressive. Recommended Recordings Jolly Miller Overture / Violin Concerto Symphony No. 18

19. British Composers,Havergal Brian,Joseph Holbrooke,Harold Truscott"
    Biography, discography, work list, bibliography.  
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20. Brian, Havergal (1876 - 1972) 
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    Extractions: Komponisten Havergal Brian Biographie Photo Gallery Home Page Die Biographie von Havergal Brian Englischer Komponist, weitgehend Autodidakt; er entwickelte sich im Lauf seines langen Lebens zu einer Art Legende: 1954 - mit siebenundachtzig - hatte er seine Zehnte Symphonie vollendet; als er mit sechsundneunzig starb, hatte er weitere 22 geschrieben. nade-Concerts" in der Royal Albert Hall eine seiner Symphonien hören, die einen stürmischen Erfolg errang. Die BBC hat darauf viele seiner Symphonien gesendet. Seine Musik ist tonal, die Melodik streng, die Rhythmik stürmisch und die Form kompromißlos. Karadar Bertoldi Ensemble Studio Informatico Anesin

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