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British composer (born 1943)

Person · Open Library

Born
1943
Works
13

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Active from
1943-01-16

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
6,881
Total plays
98,875

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contemporary classicalAvant-Gardenew complexityserialismbritish

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

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