Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (born 16 January, 1943 in Coventry) is a British composer.

=Biography= Ferneyhough was awarded the Mendelssohn Scholarship in 1968 and moved to Europe to study with Ton de Leeuw in Amsterdam, and later with Klaus Huber in Basel. As of 1999, he is William H. Bonsall Professor in Music at Stanford University.

Ferneyhough became closely associated with the so-called New Complexity school of composition, characterised by its extension of the modernist tendency towards formalisation (particularly as in integral serialism). Ferneyhough's actual compositional approach, however, rejects serialism and other "generative" methods of composing; he prefers instead to use systems only to create material and formal constraints, while their realisation appears to be more spontaneous. Unlike many more formally-inclined composers, Ferneyhough often speaks of his music as being about creating energy and excitement rather than embodying an abstract schema.

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Brian Ferneyhough's Opus-Contra-Naturam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVhxi7F0_wo "Walter Benjamin's opera"
laputean (Laputean Solaris) Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:39:15 -0000
Brian Ferneyhough's Opus-Contra-Naturam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVhxi7F0_wo "Walter Benjamin's opera"
Brian Ferneyhough's Opus-Contra-Naturam, for solo piano, act 4 of the opera "Shadowtime". Performed by Nicholas Hodges. http://bit.ly/4WJPlj
WaldoKanto (Valery Levacher) Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:04:12 -0000
Brian Ferneyhough's Opus-Contra-Naturam, for solo piano, act 4 of the opera "Shadowtime". Performed by Nicholas Hodges. http://bit.ly/4WJPlj

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