Brown, David (Clifford)
Brown, David (Clifford)
Brown, David (Clifford) English musicologist; b. Gravesend, July 8, 1929. He studied at the Univ. of Sheffield (B.A., 1951; B.Mus., 1952); then was music librarian at the Univ. of London Library, Senate House (1959–62). In 1962 he was appointed a lecturer at the Univ. of Southampton; was prof, of musicology there from 1983 to 1989. He was awarded a Ph.D. in 1971 by the Univ. of Southampton for his book Thomas Weelkes: A Biographical and Critical Study (London, 1969). He also wrote John Wilbye (London, 1974) and then specialized in Russian music; publ. Mikhail Glinka (London, 1974) and an extended four-vol. biography of Tchaikovsky (1978–91), the merits of which are marred by an easy acceptance of the questionable theory that Tchaikovsky committed suicide. Later he publ. Tchaikovsky Remembered (London and Boston, 1993). He contributed articles on Russian music to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire