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Dennis Brain (17 May 19211 September 1957) was a British
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player. From a musical family – his father and grandfather were horn players – he attended the Royal Academy of Music in London. During the
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he served in the
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, playing in its band and orchestra. After the war he was principal horn of the
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and
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orchestras, and played in chamber ensembles. Among the works written for Brain is
Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other ...
's
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings The ''Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings'', Op. 31, is a song cycle written in 1943 by Benjamin Britten for tenor, solo horn and a string orchestra. Composed during the Second World War at the request of the horn player Dennis Brain, it is a ...
(1944). Other composers who wrote for him include
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,
Lennox Berkeley Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley (12 May 190326 December 1989) was an English composer. Biography Berkeley was born on 12 May 1903 in Oxford, England, the younger child and only son of Aline Carla (1863–1935), daughter of Sir James Char ...
,
Alan Bush Alan Dudley Bush (22 December 1900 – 31 October 1995) was a British composer, pianist, conductor, teacher and political activist. A committed communist, his uncompromising political beliefs were often reflected in his music. He composed pro ...
,
Gordon Jacob Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob CBE (5 July 18958 June 1984) was an English composer and teacher. He was a professor at the Royal College of Music in London from 1924 until his retirement in 1966, and published four books and many articles about ...
,
Humphrey Searle Humphrey Searle (26 August 1915 – 12 May 1982) was an English composer and writer on music. His music combines aspects of late Romanticism and modernist serialism, particularly reminiscent of his primary influences, Franz Liszt, Arnold Schoen ...
and
Mátyás Seiber Mátyás György Seiber (; 4 May 190524 September 1960) was a Hungarian-born British composer who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1935 onwards. His work linked many diverse musical influences, from the Hungarian tradition of Bartó ...
. Brain was killed in a car crash at the age of 36.


Life and career


Early years

Brain was born in Hammersmith, London on 17 May 1921 to a musical family. His mother, Marion, ''née'' Beeley (1887–1954), was a singer at Covent Garden and his father, Aubrey Harold Brain, was first horn of the
London Symphony Orchestra The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London. Founded in 1904, the LSO is the oldest of London's symphony orchestras. The LSO was created by a group of players who left Henry Wood's Queen's Hall Orc ...
and regarded as "the leading exponent of the instrument in Britain at that time". Aubrey's father, Alfred Edwin Brain, Sr., and elder brother, Alfred Edwin Brain Jr., had been prominent horn players in Britain, and in the latter's case the US. Brain's elder brother, Leonard (1915–1975), became a leading player of the
oboe The oboe ( ) is a type of double reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common oboe plays in the treble or soprano range. ...
and cor anglais,Gamble and Lynch, p. 1 principal of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Brain was educated at Richmond Hill Preparatory School and then
St Paul's School, London (''By Faith and By Learning'') , established = , closed = , type = Independent school Public school , religion = Church of England , president = , h ...
. Although it was assumed that he would become a horn player, his father kept him largely away from the instrument as a boy, in the belief that it should not be played until the adult teeth developed. Brain was allowed to blow a few notes on his father's horn every Saturday morning, to maintain his interest, but his first musical studies were piano and organ. In 1936 Brain was admitted to the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) to study horn under his father, who was professor of the instrument there. He also studied piano with Max Pirani, organ with
G. D. Cunningham George Dorrington Cunningham (October 2, 1878 – August 4, 1948) was an English concert organist. Born in London to musical parents, Cunningham studied piano with his mother, subsequently switching to organ at the Guildhall School of Music. U ...
and harmony with
Montague Phillips Montague Fawcett Phillips (13 November 1885 – 4 January 1969) was a British composer of light classical music and songs, including the popular operetta ''The Rebel Maid'' of 1921. Career Born in Tottenham, London, Phillips began his musical car ...
. His professional début was on 6 October 1938 when he played in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no. 1 (which features two
concertante Sinfonia concertante (; also called ''symphonie concertante'') is an orchestral work, normally in several movements, in which one or more solo instruments contrast with the full orchestra.Collins: ''Encyclopedia of Music'', William Collins Sons & C ...
horn parts) as second horn to his father in the
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, London, under the baton of
Adolf Busch Adolf Georg Wilhelm Busch (8 August 1891 – 9 June 1952) was a German–Swiss violinist, conductor, and composer. Life and career Busch was born in Siegen in Westphalia. He studied at the Cologne Conservatory with Willy Hess and Bram Elderin ...
. The music critic of ''
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'' wrote: The following month Brain and his brother were soloists in a concert featuring Mozart's Horn Quintet (K407) and Oboe Quintet (K370). He appeared with ensembles including the Griller and Busch quartets and made broadcasts for the
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, the first of which, in February 1939, featured Mozart's Divertimento in D (K334) with Aubrey as first horn and Dennis as second. In the same month father and son recorded the work for Columbia with the Léner Quartet. Legge, Walter
"Dennis Brain"
, ''The Gramophone'', November 1957. Retrieved 12 June 2021


RAF and wartime

At the start of the
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Brain and his brother joined the armed forces. Unlike Germany and Italy, Britain did not exempt musicians from conscription, but the conductor of the Central Band of the Royal Air Force, Wing Commander Rudolph O'Donnell, made considerable, and largely successful, efforts to ensure that, as
Walter Legge Harry Walter Legge (1 June 1906 – 22 March 1979) was an English classical music record producer, most especially associated with EMI. His recordings include many sets later regarded as classics and reissued by EMI as "Great Recordings of the ...
put it, "every exceptionally able young instrumentalist knew that a place would be found for him in the RAF Band". The band became what ''
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'' described as "a legendary ensemble", and an RAF Symphony Orchestra was a spin-off. With them, Brain made a three-month tour of the US in 1944–45, and played during the
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in 1945. Players in the RAF ensemble were allowed to perform for civilian managements when not required for official duties. Brain made 26 solo appearances in the wartime
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concerts organised by
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, in a range of works including the Mozart Horn Quintet (K407) and the Brahms Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano (Op. 40), which became, as his biographer Tim Barringer writes, "his signature works in later years".Barringer, Tim
"Brain, Dennis (1921–1957)"
, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2021 For the BBC he made more than 20 broadcasts during the war for the home or forces networks, mostly of chamber music, but on one occasion playing the Mozart Horn Concerto K495 with the
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conducted by
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. In mid-1942 Brain met the composer
Benjamin Britten Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976, aged 63) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other ...
; the latter was writing incidental music, played by the RAF orchestra, for a series of BBC radio commentaries on war-time Britain which were being broadcast weekly to the US. Britten immediately recognised Brain's exceptional skill, and took little persuading to write a concert work for him. This was the
Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings The ''Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings'', Op. 31, is a song cycle written in 1943 by Benjamin Britten for tenor, solo horn and a string orchestra. Composed during the Second World War at the request of the horn player Dennis Brain, it is a ...
, premiered at the
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in October 1944 with Brain and
Peter Pears Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears ( ; 22 June 19103 April 1986) was an English tenor. His career was closely associated with the composer Benjamin Britten, his personal and professional partner for nearly forty years. Pears' musical career starte ...
as soloists.Lewis, Geraint
"Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings"
''Gramophone'', October 2020, pp. 94–97 Britten acknowledged Brain's help during the composition of the work:


Later years

By 1945, Brain, at 24 years of age, was the most sought-after horn player in England. His father injured himself in a fall, and retired from the BBC Symphony Orchestra, although he remained professor at the RAM until his death ten years later.Morley-Pegge, Reginald, and Niall O'Loughlin
"Brain family"
''Grove Music Online'', Oxford University Press, 2001. Retrieved 14 June 2021 After the war, Legge and
Sir Thomas Beecham Sir Thomas Beecham, 2nd Baronet, CH (29 April 18798 March 1961) was an English conductor and impresario best known for his association with the London Philharmonic and the Royal Philharmonic orchestras. He was also closely associated with th ...
founded the
Philharmonia The Philharmonia Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge, a classical music record producer for EMI. Among the conductors who worked with the orchestra in its early years were Richard Strauss, ...
and the Royal Philharmonic orchestras, respectively. Brain was principal horn in both, playing for Beecham alongside the woodwind players dubbed "the Royal Family" – Jack Brymer (clarinet), Gwydion Brooke (bassoon),
Terence MacDonagh John Alfred Terence MacDonagh (3 February 1908 – 12 September 1986) was an English Oboe, oboist and cor anglais player, particularly known as one of the four members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra's so-called "Royal Family" of woodwind pla ...
(oboe), and
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(flute). Later, he found that he did not have enough time to fill both positions and resigned from the Royal Philharmonic. Brain originally played a French instrument, a Raoux piston-valve horn, similar to that used by his father. This type of instrument has a particularly fluid tone and a fine legato, but a less robust sound than the German-made instruments which were becoming common. In 1951 he switched to an
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single B instrument. It had a custom lead pipe which was narrower than the usual, and offered a sound which, if not comparable to the Raoux, at least gave a nod in the direction of the lighter French instrument. Pursuing his interest in chamber music, Brain formed a
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with his brother in 1946. He also established a trio with the pianist Wilfrid Parry and violinist
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. Briefly, Brain put together a chamber ensemble consisting of his friends so that he could conduct. From 1945 he played with
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's London Baroque Ensemble, both on recordings and in concert. Showing his humorous style, Brain performed a Leopold Mozart horn concerto on a rubber hose pipe at a
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music festival in 1956, trimming the hose with garden shears to achieve the correct tuning. In November 1953, under the direction of
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, and accompanied by the Philharmonia, Brain recorded the four Mozart Horn Concertos for Columbia.Notes to Naxos Historical CD set 8.111070 In the same month, together with
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(oboe), Bernard Walton (clarinet) and Cecil James (bassoon), he recorded Mozart's
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. In July 1954, again conducted by Karajan, Brain played the organ part in a recording of the Easter hymn from
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's ''
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''.Gamble and Lynch, p. 83 With Sutcliffe, Walton, James and the pianist
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he recorded Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Winds, K452, in April 1955. Of Brain's other recordings, Legge singled out his playing in the four
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Symphonies conducted by
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, Mozart's B flat Divertimento with Karajan and Strauss's ''
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'', "the horn-player's opera ''par excellence''!" Brain was a keen motorist. His brother called him "the finest driver I have ever ridden with". Barringer writes that Brain bought On 1 September 1957, at the age of 36, Brain was killed driving home to London after performing the
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Symphony No. 6, ''Pathetique'' with the Philharmonia under
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at the
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. He had driven his
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sports car off the road and into a tree on the A1 road opposite the north gate of the De Havilland Aircraft factory at Hatfield. Brain was interred at
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in London. His headstone is engraved with a passage from the "Declamation" section of Hindemith's Horn Concerto: My call transforms The hall to autumn-tinted groves What is into what Has been...Foreman, p. 114 One of Brain's favourite horns (by Alexander of Mainz: a single B-flat horn with an F extension as a tuning slide) was badly damaged in his fatal crash. It has since been restored by Paxman Brothers of London and is on public display in the York Gate Collections at the RAM.


New works and commemorations

As well as the Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Britten wrote Canticle III: ''Still falls the rain'' with Brain in mind; Brain and Pears, accompanied by the composer, gave the first performance at a concert in 1955 in which Brain also premiered two pieces by
Alan Bush Alan Dudley Bush (22 December 1900 – 31 October 1995) was a British composer, pianist, conductor, teacher and political activist. A committed communist, his uncompromising political beliefs were often reflected in his music. He composed pro ...
. Other composers who wrote for Brain were
Malcolm Arnold Sir Malcolm Henry Arnold (21 October 1921 – 23 September 2006) was an English composer. His works feature music in many genres, including a cycle of nine symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music and music ...
(Horn Concerto No. 2),"Mr Dennis Brain: A Renowned Horn Player", ''The Times'', 2 September 1957, p. 10
Lennox Berkeley Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley (12 May 190326 December 1989) was an English composer. Biography Berkeley was born on 12 May 1903 in Oxford, England, the younger child and only son of Aline Carla (1863–1935), daughter of Sir James Char ...
( Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano),
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(Concerto for Horn, Strings and Timpani), Hindemith (Concerto for Horn and Orchestra),
Gordon Jacob Gordon Percival Septimus Jacob CBE (5 July 18958 June 1984) was an English composer and teacher. He was a professor at the Royal College of Music in London from 1924 until his retirement in 1966, and published four books and many articles about ...
( Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra),
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(Horn Concerto),Mitchell, Donald
"Dennis Brain"
, ''Tempo'', New Series, no. 45 (1957), pp. 16–17. Retrieved 14 June 2021
Humphrey Searle Humphrey Searle (26 August 1915 – 12 May 1982) was an English composer and writer on music. His music combines aspects of late Romanticism and modernist serialism, particularly reminiscent of his primary influences, Franz Liszt, Arnold Schoen ...
(''Aubade'' for Horn and Strings),
Mátyás Seiber Mátyás György Seiber (; 4 May 190524 September 1960) was a Hungarian-born British composer who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1935 onwards. His work linked many diverse musical influences, from the Hungarian tradition of Bartó ...
(''Notturno'' for Horn and Strings), and
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(''Rhapsody and Rondo'' for Horn and Orchestra, ''Romance and Rondo'' for Horn and Orchestra). Francis Poulenc wrote '' Élégie for Horn and Piano'' to commemorate Brain's death. It was premiered by the BBC in a broadcast on 17 February 1958, played by Neill Sanders with Poulenc at the piano."Poulenc's Elegy for Dennis Brain", ''The Times'', 8 February 1958, p. 3 In its obituary notice, ''
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'' said of Brain:


Notes, references and sources


Notes


References


Sources

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External links


Concertonet.com, Instruments of Mass Seduction II: The Horn; 11 May 2004
* Marshall, Robert L. ''Dennis Brain on Record: A Comprehensive Discography of his Solo, Chamber and Orchestral Recordings''. Newton, MA: Margun Music, Inc. 1996. An updated version of this discography can be downloaded at
Dennis Brain (1921-1957) - IHS OnlineWilliam C. Lynch Dennis Brain Collection (ARS.0138), Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound
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