William Havergal Brian (29 January 1876 – 28 November 1972) was a prominent 20th-century English composer, librettist, and church organist. He is best...
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The Symphony No. 1 in D minor (The Gothic) is a symphony composed by Havergal Brian between 1919 and 1927. At around 110 minutes it is one of the longest...
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The Symphony No. 2 in E minor is a symphony composed by Havergal Brian between 1930 and 1931. It was his third before he reorganized his catalogue in 1967...
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Roundabout Denis Brian (1923–2017), British journalist and writer Donald Brian (1877–1948), Canadian-American actor, dancer, and singer Havergal Brian (1876–1972)...
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jazz influence. The first known composer to use the vibraphone was Havergal Brian in his 1917 opera, The Tigers, which called for two of them. However...
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Frances Ridley Havergal (14 December 1836 – 3 June 1879) was an English religious poet and hymnwriter. Take My Life and Let it Be and Thy Life for Me (also...
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Turandot (Gozzi) (section Havergal Brian)
Busoni and Wilhelm Stenhammar; and operas by Busoni, Giacomo Puccini and Havergal Brian. Turandot was written deliberately in the Commedia dell'arte style by...
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game), a remake of the 2001 video game Symphony No. 1, or "The Gothic", Havergal Brian Gothic (Paradise Lost album), 1991 Gothic (Nox Arcana album), 2015 Gothic...
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were also written by Jean-Paul Sartre and John Arden. English composer Havergal Brian was inspired by Goethe's play when composing his Symphony No. 2 in E...
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1969[clarification needed] The LSSO made the very first commercial recording of Havergal Brian's music for the Unicorn and CBS labels in 1972 and 1974 respectively...
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Brasilia Cláudio Santoro, Symphony No. 7, Sinfonia Brasilia Breve/Brevis: Havergal Brian, Symphony No. 22, Symphonia Brevis Vincent d'Indy, Symphony No. 3, Sinfonia...
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con fuoco and Manuel de Falla's El Paño Moruno. The British composer Havergal Brian (1876–1972) used the tune as the basis of his orchestral work "Fantastic...
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his constructed biography) said to have been born in Stoke-on-Trent. Havergal Brian (1876–1972), the classical composer and music writer, who composed 32...
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Vaughan Williams, followed symphonic form strictly. Others, such as Havergal Brian, Alfred Schnittke and Karol Szymanowski, chose either to expand symphonic...
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The Tigers (opera) (category Compositions by Havergal Brian)
The Tigers is a burlesque opera in a prologue and three acts by Havergal Brian. Written 1917–1919 and 1927–1929, it was lost, then recovered in 1977, and...
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The Cenci (opera) (category Compositions by Havergal Brian)
The Cenci is a 1951 opera in eight scenes by Havergal Brian based on the Shelley play The Cenci. The opera premiered in 1997 in the UK in a performance...
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minor (Op. 68) by Johannes Brahms, 1855–76 Symphony No. 10 (Brian) in C minor by Havergal Brian, 1953–54 Symphony No. 10 (Davies) (Op. 327, Alla ricerca...
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October – David Hughes, opera singer, 47 (heart failure) 28 November – Havergal Brian, composer, 96 date unknown Jimmy MacBeath, folk singer, 77/78 Ivor McMahon...
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and many of them set it to music, including Fritz Hart, Cecil Gray, Havergal Brian, Healey Wlllan and Karl Rankl. Vincent Woods' A Cry from Heaven (2005)...
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List of symphonic poems (section Havergal Brian)
This is a list of some notable composers who wrote symphonic poems. En skärgardssägen, Op. 20 (1903) Isabella or the Pot of Basil (1909, after the poem...
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Retrieved 23 March 2016. Cameo Classics catalogue entry for CC9016CD – Havergal Brian: The Complete Piano Music "Professor Peter Hill (Emeritus Professor...
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cantata that spoke to Parry's radical political commitments at the time". Havergal Brian set parts one and two complete in his Prometheus Unbound for chorus...
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England Holidays, by Charles Ives (1919) Symphony No. 1 "The Gothic", by Havergal Brian (1919-1927) Symphony No. 3 in C major, Op. 21, by George Enescu (1921)...
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Shaker Hymn)" (2008) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik Havergal Brian – Symphony No. 12 Pocket Symphonies Pocket Symphonies for Lonesome Subway...
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Beatrice Cenci (1926) by Stefan Zweig The Cenci (1951–52), an opera by Havergal Brian (abridged from Shelley's play) The Cenci Family (2004), a radio play...
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only used as a frame of reference. Béla Bartók – String Quartet No. 3 Havergal Brian – Symphony No. 1 "Gothic" Frank Bridge – Rhapsody: Enter Spring John...
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versions for choir also exist, such as that by John Rutter. In 1962 Havergal Brian wrote a comedy overture for orchestra based on the tune. A 1997 local...
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funeral march by Jean Sibelius, 1910 In Memoriam, a symphonic poem by Havergal Brian, 1910 In Memoriam, an orchestral piece by Arnold Bax, 1916 In memoriam...
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of Havergal Brian. Other books include a tourist guidebook to the city of Edinburgh and a multi-volume edition of the musical journalism of Havergal Brian...
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(Arnold) (Op. 128) by Malcolm Arnold, 1986 Symphony No. 9 (Brian) in A minor by Havergal Brian, 1951 Symphony No. 9 (Bruckner) in D minor (WAB 109, dem...
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