Clive BROWN (Inst. 7)
Historical Performance Practice
Clive Brown was a lecturer at Oxford University between 1980 and 1991 and subsequently Professor of Applied Musicology (now Emeritus Professor) at the University of Leeds.
His monographs include: Louis Spohr: A Critical Biography (Cambridge 1984 – revised German edition Louis Spohr: Eine kritische Biographie 2009), Classical and Romantic Performing Practice (Oxford 1999 – Chinese translation 2012) and A Portrait of Mendelssohn (Yale 2003).
Brown also published numerous essays on historical performance practice and pursued practice-oriented research as a violinist.
In Oxford and Leeds, he revised and conducted theatrical productions of rare operas by J.F. Lampe, J.C. Bach, Haydn, Salieri, Eberl, Spohr, Schubert, and Mendelssohn.
His critical and performance-oriented editions of sheet music include: Brahms’ violin concerto and his complete sonatas for one instrument and piano (together with a text volume: “Performance Practice Notes on Johannes Brahms’ Chamber Music,” Bärenreiter), Beethoven’s Symphonies 1, 2, and 5, a choral fantasy and a violin concerto by Beethoven, a practical edition of Mendelssohn’s final version of “Die Hochzeit des Camacho” (Breitkopf und Härtel), Franz Clement’s Violin Concerto in D major from 1805 (AR-Editions), and “The Violin Music” (Vol. 37 of the Complete Edition) by Elgar.
Clive Brown recently completed a critically and historically informed edition of the solo part of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto for Bärenreiter and published an edition of Beethoven’s violin sonatas, together with a volume of texts on performance practice in Viennese Classical chamber music, with Bärenreiter Verlag.