Autor: A. Peter Brown

Brian Hart is Professor of Music History at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of „The French Symphony after Berlioz: From the Second Empire to the First World War“ in Volume 3B of The Symphonic Repertoire. He has written and presented on various topics relating to French symphonic music and culture including Vincent d“Indy“s influence on French symphonic development, Debussy and the symphony, the French organ symphony, the symphonies of Arthur Honegger, and competing cultural and political interpretations of the symphony in fin de siècle France. He is the author of entries on César Franck, Arthur Honegger, Vincent d“Indy, Albert Roussel, and Ernest Chausson for Oxford Bibliographies Online.