Havergal Brian

Person · Open Library

Born

1876

Died

1972

Works

14

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1876-01-29

Active to

1972-11-28

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

6,060

Total plays

60,546

William (Havergal) Brian (1876–1972), was an English composer. William Brian (he adopted the name "Havergal" from a local family of hymn-writers) was born on 29th January 1876 in Dresden, a district of Stoke-on-Trent, and was one of a very small number of composers to come from the English working class. After attending an elementary school he had difficulty finding any congenial work, and taught himself the rudiments of music. For a time he was organist of Odd Rode Church just across the borde

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,950x

2. A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films

   · 1991 · cited 26,528x

3. Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

   · 2011 · cited 19,416x

4. Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

   · 2009 · cited 18,985x

5. Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony

   · 1977 · cited 18,355x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Place of birth

Stoke-on-Trent

Place of death

Shoreham-by-Sea

Occupation

music critic

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

symphony

Instrument

pipe organ

Image

Havergal Brian (c. 1900).jpg

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