Rosemary Brown
Rosemary Brown (born July 27, 1916 in Stockwell , a suburb of London , † November 16, 2001 ) was an English music medium .
Rosemary Brown claimed that she had received new works from deceased composers. Especially in the 1970s she aroused media interest with the statement that Liszt , Brahms , Bach , Rachmaninov , Schubert , Grieg , Debussy , Chopin , Schumann and Beethoven had dictated her compositions.
Brown came from a humble background and, according to his own account, had no regular musical training, apart from a few piano lessons in childhood or as a young woman. The assumption that she had had a thorough musical education, but had forgotten this fact due to severe amnesia , was rejected by Brown's general practitioner. The Utrecht parapsychologist WHC Tenhaeff attested Brown complete mental normality and did not rule out a media origin of her perceptions.
In 1964 Rosemary Brown began intensive musical self-study, and in 1965 she became an organist in her spiritualist congregation. Since then she has written several hundred compositions (mostly for piano), dictated by her own statement by deceased composers. In 1969 she was subjected to a test by the BBC , where she was supposed to establish contact with a composer during a broadcast, which she said succeeded with Franz Liszt. Since she could not play the written piano piece herself, a professional pianist took over the performance. The piece was then examined by a Liszt expert who found unmistakable similarities with the composer's style. In 1976, two movements of a symphony allegedly transmitted by Beethoven were premiered in the Netherlands.
Overall, various musicians came to the conclusion that the works written by Rosemary Brown were similar to the style of the respective composer, but did not match the quality of the works composed by them during their lifetime. Others, such as the English composers Richard Rodney Bennett and Humphrey Searle , took the view that the music could not have come from Brown himself.
Several recordings of the music written down by Rosemary Brown have been published (for example in Germany in 1977 the LP Composition from the Beyond on the Intercord label), as well as books written by her (including Unfinished Symphony ).
literature
- The music in past and present (MGG), L. Finscher (Hrsg.), Kassel et al., Bärenreiter 2000, person part vol. 3, col. 1019-1021.
- (fr) Rosemary Brown, En communication avec l'au-delà . [Paris, Flammarion, Collection] "Jai lu", (186 pp.)
Recordings / sheet music
- Rosemary Brown's music "dictated" by Liszt, Chopin, Beethoven, Debussy, Schubert, Schumann, Grieg, Brahms, played by Rosemary Brown and Peter Katin , LP Philips n ° 6500 049 (1970)
- Music medium Rosemary Brown. Compositions from Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Rachmaninow and Debussy , piano Howard Shelley, LP Intercord n ° INT 160.819 (1977)
- Music from the beyond. Das Medium Rosemary Brown , VHS-Video VMP Video Medien Pool n ° 5093 (approx. 1978)
Currently (as of 2016) a DVD, several CD recordings and music books are available (Edition Romana, Hamburg / Keturi Musikverlag)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brown, Rosemary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English music medium |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 2001 |