Brian Ferneyhough
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It is catalogued under topics including 1943 births, 20th-century British classical composers and 20th-century English composers.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1943
- Works
- 13
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Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (born 16 January 1943 in Coventry) is a British composer. Ferneyhough was awarded the Felix Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1968 and moved to Europe to study with Ton de Leeuw in Amsterdam, and later with Klaus Huber in Basel. As of 1999, he is William H. Bonsall Professor in Music at Stanford University. Ferneyhough became closely associated with the so-called New Complexity school of composition, characterised by its extension of the modernist tendency towards formali
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Brian
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Coventry
- Occupation
- pedagogue
- Employer
- Hochschule für Musik Freiburg
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- trumpet
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- date of birth
- 1943-01-16
- member of
- Academy of Arts, Berlin
- student
- Kaija Saariaho
- described by source
- Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
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