Brian John Peter Ferneyhough is an English composer.
12 Facts About Brian Ferneyhough
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Brian Ferneyhough has taught composition at the Hochschule fur Musik Freiburg and the University of California, San Diego; he teaches at Stanford University and is a regular lecturer in the summer courses at Darmstadter Ferienkurse.
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Brian Ferneyhough was born in Coventry and received formal musical training at the Birmingham School of Music and the Royal Academy of Music from 1966 to 1967, where he studied with Lennox Berkeley.
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Brian Ferneyhough was awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1968 and moved to mainland Europe to study with Ton de Leeuw in Amsterdam, and later with Klaus Huber in Basel.
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Between 1978 and 1994 Brian Ferneyhough was a composition lecturer at the Darmstadter Ferienkurse and, since 1990, has directed an annual mastercourse at the Fondation Royaumont in France.
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In 2007, Brian Ferneyhough received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize for lifetime achievement.
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Whilst Brian Ferneyhough did find it hard, one source of support came from Hans Swarsenski who saw the same thing happen to Cornelius Cardew; Cardew enjoyed a prestigious continental reputation, but a poor one in his homeland.
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Swarsenski said of Brian Ferneyhough: 'I've taken on an English composer who is I think is enormously talented.
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Brian Ferneyhough continued to struggle, but the aforementioned Royan festival marked a breakthrough for Brian Ferneyhough's career.
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From here, Brian Ferneyhough became closely associated with the so-called New Complexity school of composition, characterized by its extension of the modernist tendency towards formalization.
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Brian Ferneyhough has been interested in challenging listeners' ways of absorbing musical information flow, prompting new kinds of temporal awareness by being presented with musical materials that contain their own sufficient complexity:.
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Brian Ferneyhough has been called "the most controversial composer of his generation".