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First name: James F.
Last name: Brown
Dates: 1969
Category: Quartet
Nationality: english
Opus name: Piano Quartet (2004)
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Peculiarities: See: http://www.jamesfrancisbrown.com/works/work.asp?workid=296
Information: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James Francis Brown (born December 7, 1969, London) is a British composer. He studied composition with the Viennese émigré Hans Heimler (a pupil of Alban Berg) and then at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Francis Brown’s significant chamber works include sonatas for Piano (1994), for Viola (1995), the String Trio (commissioned by the Leopold String Trio, 1996) and a Piano Quartet (2003). As an arranger he reconstructed and orchestrated sketches for Wagner's projected opera 'Männerlist grösser als Frauenlist' for the Royal Opera House in 2007 and arranged Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll for the 2008 City of London Festival. James Francis Brown was awarded a five-year NESTA fellowship in 2003, and was the first composer-in-residence at the International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove, in 2006. His concert work is often linked with a group of British composers called 'Music Haven', not a school as such, but a collection of composers mostly London-based and with broadly similar interests and aesthetic outlook, reflecting sympathies for British masters such as Britten and Tippett and the great music of the First Viennese School, especially Haydn and Beethoven, as well as the Scandinavian influences of Sibelius and Nielsen.