Dennis Brain - A Biography

Informationen zum Autor Stephen J.Pettitt was born in 1945. For 37 years he has headed the music department of The King's School, Tynemouth. A keen horn player himself, he founded and is Principal Conductor of the New Tyneside Orchestra which has broadcast and toured abroad. Married with three children, he is also the author of Philharmonia Orchestra: A Record of Achievement 1945-1985 and co-author of Philharmonia Orchestra: Complete Discography. Klappentext Dennis Brain is recognized as perhaps the greatest horn player the world has known. He helped rescue the horn from the obscurity in which it had languished for over a century! and revived the public's faith in it as a major solo instrument. This biography presents an account of Dennis Brain's career. Zusammenfassung Brain restored to the concert platform concertos by Mozart and Haydn, and inspired contemporary composers to write for the horn, most notably the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings by Benjamin Britten, composed during World War II, a piece which is now central to the repertoire of tenors and horn players.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Stephen Pettitt, Stephen Pettitt
• Assisted by: Stephe Pettitt (Editor), Stephen Pettitt (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.09.2009
• EAN: 9780571254224
• ISBN: 978-0-571-25422-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; MUSIC / Musical Instruments / Woodwinds, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Biography: arts and entertainment, Wind Instruments, Faber Finds; Musicians; Orchestras