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	Comparing the Symphonies
		Brian isn't even considered to be a 20th century composer, judging by the list found at the UMP website, despite him writing the Fantastic Variations in 1907 and revising his 8th Symphony in 1971.
		Brian almost always specifies predictable woodwind doublings, which should not prove a problem for any symphony orchestra and are not given in the table as to do so would have unnecessarily complicated it; the footnotes amplify this topic.
		Brian's typical brass section includes the usual horn quartet, either three or four trumpets, and more often than not a triad of tenor trombones with a bass tuba, rather than two tenors and a bass trombone; if two tubas are listed, then the second is usually a euphonium in practice.
	www.carringbush.net /~pml/music/brian/symphonies (1900 words)

	Havergal Brian biography .ms (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		William Brian (he adopted the name "Havergal" from a local family of hymn-writers) was born in Dresden, a district of Stoke-on-Trent, and was one of a very small number of composers to originate from the English working class.
		Brian fled to London and although Robinson deeply disapproved of the incident he continued to provide Brian with money until his own death, though most of the allowance went to Brian's estranged wife.
		For a few years after Brian's death, while Simpson still had influence at the BBC, there was a revival of interest with a number of recordings and performances; two biographies and a three-volume study of his symphonies appeared.
	havergal-brian.biography.ms.cob-web.org:8888 (701 words)

	Havergal Brian (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		William Brian (he adopted the name "Havergal" from a local family of hymn‐writers) was born in Dresden, a district of Stoke-on-Trent, and was one of a very small number of composers to originate from the English working class.
		For a while Brian worked on a number of ambitious large‐scale choral and orchestral works, but felt no urgency to finish them, and began to indulge in hitherto‐undreamt‐of pleasures, such as expensive foods and a trip to Italy.
		For a few years after Brian's death, while Simpson still had influence at the BBC, there was a revival of interest with a number of recordings and performances; two biographies and a three‐volume study of his symphonies appeared.
	havergal-brian.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (857 words)

	Altarus
		Havergal Brian's circle of musical acquaintances was much wider in the nineteen thirties than his later isolated status would lead us to expect.
		Brian continued working on a substantial Violin Concerto, the score of which was mysteriously stolen at Victoria Station in June 1934.
		There are so many missing scores by Havergal Brian that the notion of an undeclared war on his works does not seem entirely crazy and the composer himself seems to have taken the loss philosophically.
	www.btinternet.com /~j.b.w/alta.htm (1464 words)

	The Havergal Brian Society
		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.
		With the death of Bantock in 1946, Brian lost his last advocate for performances of his music until the early 1950s, when his work came to the attention to a young BBC music producer named Robert Simpson, himself destined to become one of Britain's foremost symphonists.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /societies/brian.html (2121 words)

	Havergal Brian Collection
		Havergal Brian was born William Brian in 1876 in Dresden, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
		Brian began composing at the age of 12 and made his London debut in 1907.
		The multi-media collection at Keele is on deposit from the Havergal Brian Society and comprises books, photocopies, tapes, scores, theses and cuttings encompassing the life and work of the composer.
	www.keele.ac.uk /depts/li/specarc/archives/brian.htm (144 words)

	Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Brian
		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.
		One of the problems faced by modern performances of Brian's music is the distinctly erratic history of publication - indeed, the full score of a work considered by Brian as one of his most important (the massive "Prometheus Unbound" for chorus and orchestra [1937-44]), has been lost (hard as that might be to believe).
		Brian's later symphonies in particular tend to be short, craggy utterances, which make few compromises to audience expectations...
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/brian.html (1067 words)

	Amazon.ca: Symphonies Nos. 11 & 15: Music: Havergal Brian,Adrian Leaper,National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Havergal Brian's life story, as told by those who promote his music, is an admirable one.
		Brian was mostly unknown, and his music was rarely performed.
		The Havergal Brian Society was established to make music lovers aware of this unrecognized master and promote the performance of his music.
	www.amazon.ca /Symphonies-Nos-11-Havergal-Brian/dp/B00004GLLV (713 words)

	Musical Pointers
		Havergal Brian (1876-1972), composed his Gothic over some eight years and completed it when he was over fifty.
		Brian has a strikingly individual voice, still arresting some eighty years on - tonal and contrapuntal, but essentially forward looking, with a gruff cragginess, unexpected juxtapositions and apparent non sequiturs.
		This is then an essential purchase and should tempt the curious who have not come upon Havergal Brian; it will surely prompt further exploration of this indefatigable individualist whose composing career, spanning eighty years, must be one of the longest ever.
	www.musicalpointers.co.uk /reviews/cddvd/BrianGothic.htm (1116 words)

	Havergal Brian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William (Havergal) Brian (January 29, 1876 – November 28, 1972), was a British composer.
		This was due to his discovery by Robert Simpson, himself a significant composer and BBC Music Producer, who asked Sir Adrian Boult to programme the Eighth Symphony in 1954.
		Following the success of the Unicorn issue, a second Brian album was recorded by the LSSO in 1974 at Hove Town Hall and Leicester De Montfort Hall with the conducting being shared by Laszlo Heltay and Eric Pinkett.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Havergal_Brian (966 words)

	Classical Net Review - Havergal Brian on Music, Vol. 1
		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.
		Brian heard a staggering amount of it, as well as composers from the continent.
		Brian writes lively, if not especially distinguished prose, and I suppose a Brian fan would get the most out of it.
	www.classical.net /music/books/reviews/0907689205a.html (899 words)

	Symphony No. 1 (Havergal Brian) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The genesis of the work stems from many sources, but several may be mentioned briefly: a conversation Brian had with Henry Wood about writing a suite that would revive the older instruments which had fallen out of use in the modern symphony orchestra, such as the oboe d'amore or basset horn.
		The eclecticism of Brian's music here borrows references as diverse as mediaeval fauxbourdon, Renaissance multiple polyphony on the scale of Tallis's Spem in alium all the way through to twentieth century tone clusters, polytonality and the use of percussion and brass in a Varèse-like outburst of extreme dissonance.
		The Havergal Brian Society have a number of essays and further detail on the symphony.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._1_(Havergal_Brian) (1505 words)

	Havergal Brian - Wikipedia
		Brian erwarb sich einen legendären Ruf zur Zeit seiner Wiederentdeckung in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren vor allem wegen der Anzahl seiner Sinfonien (32, eine ungewöhnlich große Zahl für Komponisten nach der Wiener Klassik), und durch seine ungebrochene Kreativität angesichts der Tatsache, dass er den größten Teil seines Lebens in fast völlige Vergessenheit gefallen war.
		Während einiger Jahre nach Brians Tod, als Simpson noch Einfluss bei der BBC hatte, kam es zu einem Interessenaufschwung, der sich in einer größeren Zahl von Aufnahmen und Aufführungen äußerte; zwei Biographien und eine dreibändiges Studienwerk über seine Sinfonien erschienen.
		MacDonald, Malcolm: The Symphonies of Havergal Brian (3 Bände, Bd.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Havergal_Brian (948 words)

	Brian Havergal - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Brian Havergal - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Brian, Havergal (1876-1972), British composer, born in Dresden, Staffordshire.
		Boitano, Brian (1963-), American figure skater, born in Sunnyvale, California.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Brian_Havergal.html (103 words)

	Havergal Brian and the LSSO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The LSSO were the first orchestra to make a commercial recording of Havergal Brian’s music.
		The producer was Robert Simpson - a great champion of Brian - and the LP was released by Unicorn Records to great critical acclaim in 1973.
		Following the success of the Unicorn issue, a second Brian album was recorded in 1974 at Hove Town Hall and Leicester De Montfort Hall with the conducting being shared by Laszlo Heltay and Eric Pinkett.
	www.lsso.co.uk /webmusic/havergalbrianweb.html (271 words)

	The man
		William Havergal Brian was born on 29 January 1876 into a working-class Potteries family in Dresden, Staffordshire.
		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.
		Though he knew that the BBC was committed to broadcasting in due course all of his symphonies, not a note of his music was commercially issued on record during his lifetime, and he died without having heard many of his finest works.
	hbsociety.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /theman.htm (797 words)

	Will I let this in?. Some thoughts on the music of Havergal Brian, from Aaron Rabushka
		All these works held their audiences quite captivated (at least at the performances I went to), and the music of Brian would be a next worthwhile step for which both performers and listeners are primed.
		The preparation of functional performing editions will help the Brian cause indispensibly -- there are few musicians as dedicated as the conductor who led No 16 from a photocopy of the manuscript (which, to be quite honest, would embarass me if I were to put it in front of any performer).
		The rest of what remains is the persuasion (diplomatic, perhaps financial) of concert producers whose decisions are often conservative and heavily based on brand-name recognition to give Brian the place of honor that he deserves on concert platforms.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2003/01/brian3.htm (374 words)

	British Composers,Havergal Brian" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		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.
		Brian's journalism dates from around 1904 and finishes in 1949.
	www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk /horwood/home.htm (92 words)

	Brian Family Crest
		Brian was an Old Norman name, in the original form Brjan.
		In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
		In the Brian coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.fc/qx/brian-family-crest.htm?a=54323-224 (732 words)

	Brian B Biography Reference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		LaDue and her family saw her little brother, Brian 'B' Belanger Jr.'s devastating injuries after a crash on Oct. 3, 2005.
		Brian Maloney fed Bois from behind the cage, as Bois snapped a wrist shot past Conklin to ice the game and give Binghamton their third win in the last four...
		Michael W. and Dorothy A. Moser from Brian J. and Kim V. Barnes, 7725 Newgate Ave.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Reference/Biography/B/Brian (331 words)

	Havergal Brian - the official website (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Brian Society members have their own mini-site (now accessible from the menu bar at the top of the page) which gives access to archive HBS newsletters, an online web archive of photographs, programmes etc., Recording Library listings and more.
		Havergal Brian: The Complete Music for Solo Piano normally costs £11.00; the HBS is asking only £2 to cover postage and packing.
		The Havergal Brian Society is very grateful to Len Mullenger for having providing space for the original HB site content free of charge on Classical Music on the Web.
	hbsociety.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /index.htm (683 words)

	The Society
		There are few composer societies which have demonstrated such a consistent track record of quality - over a quarter of a century - in the material it has published; much of it has stood the test of time and appears on this website.
		Members receive a generous discount on all Brian records and books, as well as the opportunity to purchase memorabilia such as past programme books.
		The Society is working on a published Havergal Brian Song Edition.
	hbsociety.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /society.htm (892 words)

	Havergal Brian - classical music daily anniversary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The neglected English composer Havergal Brian was born into a working class family at Dresden in Staffordshire on 29 January 1876.
		Nearly completely self-taught, he started to become known just before the beginning of the twentieth century through his choral music.
		Interest in his music was rekindled in the 1950s, largely due to the efforts of Robert Simpson, and the elderly Brian knew that the BBC would record all his symphonies, but he died (at Shoreham, Sussex, on 28 November 1972) without hearing much of his work.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/anniv.cgi?id=2719 (162 words)

	Havergal Brian (1876-1972) - famous Havergal Brian (1876-1972) Classics hit collection and Havergal Brian (1876-1972) ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		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.
		Havergal Brian's works are now at last winning a hearing, after earlier neglect.
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/142.htm (186 words)

	Havergal Brian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		When I mention “Havergal Brian”, most people ask me, “Who?” – he is one of the unrecognised masters of 20th century music, notable for composing 32 symphonies, 5 operas, and a variety of other works in a very long lifetime.
		In his own lifetime Havergal Brian was the most prolific composer of symphonies since Joseph Haydn (he has since been surpassed by Alan Hovhaness), but most of the works are unfairly overshadowed by the notoriety of the Gothic.
		More articles on this symphony are referenced at the linked page on the Havergal Brian Society website.
	www.carringbush.net /~pml/music/brian (345 words)

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