Harold Brown collection
Collection
0124-SCPA
Harold Brown was a composer and violist/violinist born in New York in 1909. He attended Columbia College where he studied composition and conducting under many notable pedagogues including Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Bernard Wagenaar, and Leon Barzin. He also studied with Nadia Boulanger at Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris as part of the Mosenthal Fellowship. Brown became a well-loved teacher at both the high school and college level. He taught many things including composition, orchestration, music theory, and chorus as well as working as a freelance string player. This collection contains a selection of his compositions for choir, orchestra, string orchestra, chamber ensembles, and piano.
There are no restricted files in this collection.
Materials from this collection must be used in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library's Irving and Margery Morgan Lowens Special Collections Room, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday. Please make an appointment with the curator: Tel: 301.405.9220, Email: scpa@umd.edu
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The Harold Brown collection contains a selection of his compositions for many different ensemble types spanning from 1935 to 1952. There are pieces for Chorus, Orchestra, String Orchestra, Chamber Ensembles, and Solo Piano including a piano reduction made by Brown of a Friscobaldi Orchestral Fugue.
Harold Brown (October 31, 1909-September 26, 1979) was a composer and violist/violinist born in New York. He attended Columbia College where he studied Composition and Conducting under many notable pedagogues including Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Bernard Wagenaar, and Leon Barzin. He also studied with Nadia Boulanger at Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris as part of the Mosenthal Fellowship. Brown became a well-loved teacher at both the high school and college level. He taught many things including Composition, Orchestration, Music Theory, and Chorus as well as working as a freelance string player.
This collection is arranged into four series.
The Harold Brown collection was given to the American Composers Alliance at the University of Maryland by Sig Rosen. The collection has since been separated from the ACA into its own collection at Special Collections in Performing Arts by Sig Rosen.
Part of the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library