Newbould, Brian (Raby)

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Newbould, Brian (Raby)

Newbould, Brian (Raby), English musicologist;b. Kettering, Feb. 26, 1936. He studied at the Univ. of Bristol (B.Mus., 1958; M.A., 1961). He was a lecturer at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music in Glasgow (1960–65) and at the Univ. of Leeds (1965–79). Newbould became prof. of music and head of the music dept. at the Univ. of Hull in 1979. He prepared effective realizations of Schubert’s Sym. No. 7, D.729, and Sym. No. “10” D.936a. He also completed the scherzo and trio of Schubert’s Sym. No. 8, D.759, “Unfinished.”

Writings

Schubert and the Symphony: A New Perspective (Surbiton, 1992); Schubert, the Music and the Man (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1997); ed. Schubert Studies (Aldershot, 1998).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire