School of Music

Clive Brown read History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and following graduation in 1969 stayed on to take part 2 of the Music Tripos. After a period teaching music and performing as a violinist, he turned to research, gaining his D. Phil in 1980 at Oxford, where he was a member of the Faculty of Music and lecturer at Queen’s and Brasenose Colleges between 1980 and 1991. After a period of freelance work, concert planning both for the South Bank Centre, London and the Official Edinburgh Festival, he accepted a post at Bretton Hall, College of the University of Leeds. There he has served as Head of School (1997-2002) and after the merger with the Department of Music on the Leeds campus, Director of Research (2003-5) and then Head of School (2006-9) of the newly formed School of Music at the University of Leeds.

He has published widely on 18th- and 19th-century topics, particularly performing practice, and remains active as a concert violinist specialising in the historically-informed performance of Classical and Romantic music. He is regularly invited to direct historical performance workshops and give guest lectures at universities and conservatories internationally; since 1997 in Germany (Berlin, Leipzig, Carlsruhe), Austria (Vienna), Switzerland (Bern, Lucerne, Basel), Netherlands (Utrecht), Belgium (Brussels), Spain (Barcelona, Alcala, Seville), Italy (Venice, Cremona, Padua, La Spezia), USA (Washington D.C., Stanford Ca.), Australia (Sydney).

• Historical performing practice (especially late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries)
• German Romanticism
• late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century opera
• scholarly editing

Current Modules

• MUSI3721/3821-2 Music in Context (Performing practice)
• MUSI2721/2821-2 Music in Context (Music and Drama)
• MUSI3321 Performance
• MUSI5040 Introduction to Musical Scholarship
• MUSI5430 Editing and Archival Studies
• MUSI5337 Applied Performance

Books

• Brown C (2009) Louis Spohr Eine kritische Biographie. Kassel, Germany: Verlag Merseburger Berlin GmbH.

• Brown JCA (2003) A portrait of Mendelssohn. Yale University Press.

• Brown JCA (1999) Classical and Romantic Performing Practice 1750-1900. Oxford University Press.

• Brown JCA (1996) Die Neubewertung der Quellen von Beethovens fünfte Symphonie/A New Appraisal of the Sources of Beedthoven's Fifth Symphony. Breitkopf und Härtel.

• Brown C (1984) Louis Spohr, a Critical Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Scholarly Editions

• Brown C (2012) Beethoven: Violin Concerto op. 61. Breitkopf und Härtel.

• Brown C (2011) Mendelssohn: Die Hochzeit des Camacho. Breitkopf und Härtel.

• Brown JCA (2007) Edward Elgar Violin Music (Volume 37 of the Elgar Complete Edition). Elgar Society Edition.

• Brown JCA (2006) Brahms: Violin Concerto op. 77. A critical edition comprising three volumes: 1) Full score with Preface; 2) Piano reduction, solo parts and cadenzas, with Preface; 3) Critical commentary. Bärenreiter Verlag.

• Brown JCA (2005) Franz Clement: Violin Concerto in D Major (1805). A-R Editions Inc., Middleton, Wisconsin.

• Brown JCA (2004) Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C. Breitkopf und Härtel.

• Brown JCA (2001) Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D. Bretikopf und Härtel (Wiesbaden).

• Brown JCA (1996) Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 op. 67. Breitkopf und Härtel.

• Brown JCA (1993) Beethoven: Choral Fantasia op. 80. Breitkopf und Härtel.

Journal Articles

• Brown JCA (2005) “'Alla Breve'”, Quodlibet: Revista de Especialización Musical. 32: 3-21.

• Brown JCA (2004) “La ejecucion violinistisa de Joachim y la interpretacion de la musica para instrumentos de cuerda de Brahms”, Quodlibet: Revista de Especialización Musical. 29

• Brown JCA (1993) “Dots and strokes in late 18th- and 19th-century music”, Early Music. XXI.4: 593-610.

• Brown JCA (1991) “Historical performance, metronome marks and tempo in Beethoven's symphonies”, Early Music. XIX.2: 247-260.

• Brown JCA (1988) “Bowing Styles, Vibrato and Portamento in Nineteenth-Century Violin Playing”, Royal Musical Association. Journal. 113.1: 97-128.

• Brown JCA (1988) “The orchestra in Beethoven's Vienna”, Early Music. XVI.1: 4-20.

Chapters

• Brown C (2010) “Mendelssohn's Die Hochzeit des Camacho: An Unfulfilled Vision for German Opera”, In: Cowgill R; Cooper D; Brown C (eds.) Art and Ideology in European Opera. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 40-66

• Cowgill R; Cooper D; Brown C (2010) “Introduction”, In: Cowgill R; Cooper D; Brown C (eds.) Art and Ideology in European Opera. Boydell Press. 1-10

• Brown C (2010) “‘Leopold Mozart’s Violinschule and the performance of W. A. Mozart’s violin music’”, In: Cordes et claviers au temps de Mozart / Bowed and Keyboard Instruments in the Age of Mozart. Publikationen der Schweizerischen Musikforschenden Gesellschaft. 2. Bern: Peter Lang. 23-50

• Brown C (2010) “'Polarities of virtuosity in the first half of the nineteenth century'”, In: Barizza A; Morabito F (eds.) Nicolo Paganini Diabolus in Musica. Studies on Italian Music History. Turnhout: Brepols. 23-51

• Brown JCA (2008) “Joachim's performance style as reflected in his editions and other writings”, In: Calella M; Glanz C (eds.) Wiener Jahrbuch fuer musikwissenschaft: Anklaenge 2008. Vienna: Mille Tre Verlag. 205-224

• Brown JCA (2008) “‘Performing Classical repertoire: the unbridgeable gulf between contemporary practice and historical reality’”, In: Hoffmann-Axthelm D (eds.) , Basler Jahrbuch für historische Musikpraxis xxx(2006). Basel: Amadeus Verlag. 31-44

• Brown JCA; Milsom DJN (2006) “The 19th-century Legacy of the Viotti School: Editions of the Violin Concerto No. 22”, In: Sala M (eds.) Giovanni Battista Viotti - A Composer Between the Two Revolutions. Ut Orpheus Edizioni. 157-198

• Brown JCA (2004) “Nineteenth-century notation: appearance and meaning”, In: Cecchi P; Zoppelli L (eds.) Il Teatro di Donizetti: Atti dei Convegni delle Celebrazioni: Percorsi e Proposte di Ricerca Venezia 22-24 Maggio 1997. Fondazione Donizetti. 87-100

• Brown JCA (2003) “Joachim's violin playing and the performance of Brahms's string music”, In: Musgrave M; Scherman BD (eds.) Performing Brahms: Early Evidence of Performance Style. Cambridge University Press. 48-98

• Brown JCA (2002) “‘Anton Eberl’, ‘Fanny Mendelssohn’, ‘Louis Spohr’, ‘Peter v. Winter’”, In: Latham A (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford University Press.

• Brown JCA (2002) “Notation and Interpretation”, In: Burton A (eds.) A Performer's Guide to Music of the Romantic Period. Association Board of the Royal Schools of Music. 13-28

• Brown JCA (2001) “On exactly what is written”, In: Latham A; Parker R (eds.) Verdi in Performance. Oxford University Press.

• Brown JCA (2001) “‘Absetzen’, ‘Abstossen’, ‘Articulation marks’, ‘Aufheben’, ‘Dash’, ‘Leader’, ‘Lindpaintner’, ‘Ornaments §9: Late 18th century and the 19th and §10: 20th century’, ‘Poissl’, ‘Rode’ ‘Spohr’, ‘Staccato’ (with G. Chew)”, In: Sadie S (eds.) The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2nd edition. Macmillan.

• Brown JCA (1998) “The Chamber Music of Spohr and Weber”, In: Hefling SE (eds.) Nineteenth-century chamber music. Studies in Musical Genres and Repertoires. Schirmer.

• Brown JCA (1997) “Weber and Spohr”, In: Holoman DK (eds.) The Nineteenth-century Symphony. Studies in Musical Genres and Repertories. Schirmer.

• Brown JCA (1994) “Ferdinand David's editions of Beethoven”, In: Stowell R (eds.) Performing Beethoven. Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice. Cambridge University Press. 117-149

• Brown JCA (1994) “String playing practices in the classical orchestra”, In: Reidemeister P (eds.) Basler Jahrbuch für historische Musikpraxis 1993. Amadeus Verlag, Winterthur/Schweiz. 41-65

• Brown JCA (1992) “Performing Practice”, In: Millington B; Spencer S (eds.) Wagner in Performance. Yale University Press. 99-119

• Brown C “Singing and String Playing in Comparison: Instructions for the Technical and Artistic Employment of Portamento and Vibrato in Charles de Beriot's Methode de violon”, In: Bacciagaluppi C; Brotbeck R; Gerhard A (eds.) Zwischen schoeperischer Individualitaet und kuenstlerischer slbstverleugnung: zur musikalischen Auffuehrungspraxis im 19. Jahrhundert. Musikforschung der Hochschule der Kuenste Bern. Schliengen: Edition Argus. 83-108

• Brown C “'Reading between the Lines: the Notation and Performance of Mozart's Chamber Music with Keyboard'”, In: Harlow M (eds.) Mozart's Chamber Music with Keyboard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 235-264

• Brown JCA “The Performance of Mendelssohn's Chamber and Solo Music for Violin”, In: Reichwald S (eds.) Mendelssohn in Performance. Bloomington USA: Indiana University Press. 59-84

Conferences

• Brown JCA (2007) Performing Classical repertoire: the unbridgeable gulf between contemporary practice and historical reality.. Proceedings: Basler Jahrbuch: Wege zur Klassik Basler Jahrbuch: Wege zur Klassik. [Accepted]

• Brown JCA (2006) Treatises, editions and recordings as evidence of style and technique in nineteenth-century string playing. Proceedings: Internationales Symposium zur Interpretationspraxis fuer Saiteninstrumente im 19. Jahrhundert Internationales Symposium zur Interpretationspraxis fuer Saiteninstrumente im 19. Jahrhundert. [Accepted]

• Brown JCA (2006) Leopold Mozart's Violinschule and the performance of W. A. Mozart's violin music. Proceedings: Rencontres Internationales Harmoniques de Lausanne Rencontres Internationales Harmoniques de Lausanne. [Accepted]

• Brown JCA (2002) Fidelity and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Performance. Proceedings: Stimu Symposium: 19th-century Performance Practice (Utrecht Festival Oude Muziek) Stimu Symposium: 19th-century Performance Practice (Utrecht Festival Oude Muziek).

• Brown JCA (2002) ‘Herrmann Hirschbach and the Leipzig opposition to Mendelssohn’. Proceedings: Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music.

• Brown JCA (2002) Lecture recital: Period instrument performance of Brahms Violin Sonata op. 78 with Neal Peres Da Costa (piano). Proceedings: Stimu Symposium: 19th-century Performance Practice (Utrecht Festival Oude Muziek) Stimu Symposium: 19th-century Performance Practice (Utrecht Festival Oude Muziek).

• Brown JCA (2002) Lecture Recital: Period instrument performance of Mendelssohn Piano Trio op. 49 and Brahms Piano Trio op. 101. Proceedings: Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music.

• Brown JCA Gesang- und Streichertechnik im Vergleich. [Unpublished]

• Brown JCA ‘Leopold Mozart’s Violinschule and the performance of W. A. Mozart’s violin music’. Proceedings: Rencontres harmoniques internationales de Lausanne Rencontres harmoniques internationales de Lausanne. [Unpublished]

Performances

• Brown JCA J.C. Bach: Amadis de Gaule. 1 Jan. 2001

• Brown JCA Franz Clement: Violin Concerto in D major (1805). Audio 1 Nov. 2003

• Brown JCA Lampe: Margery, or a Worse Plague than the Dragon. 1 Feb. 2002

Others

• Brown JCA (2003) ‘Mendelssohn’. BBC.

• Brown JCA (2001) ‘The orchestra as instrument’. BBC.

• Brown JCA (2001) 'Queen Victoria's Love of Music'. BBC.

• British Academy ‘Thanks Offering to Britain’ Research Fellow 1985-7
• Leverhulme Research Grant for work on historical performing practice 1987
• AHRB Research Leave Grant 2003
• AHRC Annotated Editions Project (2008-12)

Director: Leeds University Centre for Historically-Informed Performance (LUCHIP)

Member: Leeds University Centre for English Music (LUCEM)

Member: Leeds University Centre for Opera Studies (LUCOS)

• Member of editorial board of Ad Parnassum, Performance Practice Review, Early Music Performer.
• Member of CHARM (AHRC Research Centre) International Advisory Panel

Current Research Student

• Yvonne Amthor: Musical Prodigies in late 18th- and early 19th-Century European Concert Life
• Martin Pickard: J. N. Poissl and the Early 19th-Century Quest for a Typically German Opera
• Peter Collyer The Leipzig School of String Playing 1843-
• Sarah Potter
• Miaoyin Qu
• Hannah French
• Kate Haynes

Past Research Students Include:

• Neal Peres Da Costa: Performing Practices in Late-Nineteenth-Century Piano Playing : implications of the relationship between written texts and early recordings (published as Off the Record, OUP, 2012)
• David Milsom: Theory and Practice in Late-Nineteenth Century Violin Performance, 1850 – 1900
• Hengching Fang: The Twentieth-Century Revolution in String Playing Explored Through Viola Repertoire: a practice-based study informed by written texts and early recordings
• George Kennaway: Cello Performance Practice in the 19th Century
• Ilias Devetzoglou: Violin Playing in France 1870-1930: a practice-based study of performing practices in French violin music from Fauré to Ravel

The Popularity and Influence of Spohr in England (Oxford, 1980)

Performances of Classical and Romantic chamber music as a member of the Ferdinand David Ensemble (formerly the LUCHIP Ensemble)

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