Faculty Member, Music
Professor of Applied Musicology
About
Clive Brown read History and then Music at Cambridge (BA 1970, MA, 1972) and Oxford, where he took his D.Phil. in 1980 with a dissertation on The Popularity and Infoluence of Spohr in England. He was a member of the Faculty of Music at the University of Oxford between 1980 and 1991. Currently (2009) he is Professor of Applied Musicology and Head of the School of Music at the University of Leeds.
His research has focused strongly on German music in the first half of the nineteenth century, and he has a special interest in historical performing practice. His books, include Louis Spohr: a critical biography (CUP, 1984), Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900 (OUP, 1999) and A Portrait of Mendelssohn (Yale, 2003); and he has published many articles, critical editions of music, and contributions to reference works. He is currently directing a four-year programme of research into annotated 19th-century editions of string music, funded with £500,000 by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.
He is also an active performer and conductor. As violinist he specializes in the historically-informed performance of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music. As musicologist and conductor he has been responsible for many modern British stage premieres of rare operas, including Spohr’s Jessonda (1980) and Pietro von Abano (2009), Schubert’s Fierrabras (1986) and Die Freunde von Salamanka (2000), Anton Eberl’s Die Königin der schwarzen Insel (1999), Mendelssohn’s Die Hochzeit des Camacho (1987), and J. C. Bach’s Amadis de Gaule (2001).
Contact Information
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/staff/cb/
School of Music,
University of Leeds,
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK
0113 342589
