Dennis Brain

by Stephen Pettitt

Dennis Brain is recognized as perhaps the greatest horn player the world has known. He helped rescue the horn from the obscurity in which it had languished for over a century, and revived the public's faith in it as a major solo instrument. Brain restored to the concert platform concertos by Mozart and Haydn, and inspired contemporary composers to write for the horn, most notably the "Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings" by Benjamin Britten, composed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571254225
• ISBN13: 9780571254224
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"