1929-2014 GB
A.k.a. David Clifford Brown
David Clifford Brown (born Gravesend, 8 July 1929, died 20 June 2014) was an English musicologist, most noteworthy for his major study of Tchaikovsky’s life and works.Brown attended Gravesend Grammar School and then studied English, Latin and music at the University of Sheffield, graduating in 1951, and took his MusB there (1952). During national service (1952-4) he studied Russian and was commissioned in the Intelligence Corps. He taught in secondary schools before becoming music librarian of the University of London, working at Senate House 1959–62. In 1962 he became a lecturer at the University of Southampton, becoming senior lecturer in 1970 and reader in 1975; he was awarded a doctorate for his book on Weelkes in 1971. His book on Mikhail Glinka (published 1974) was the first major st