This page lists books and journal articles about Brian and/or his music.
Books and journal articles by Havergal Brian are listed here

Books

EASTAUGH, Kenneth
Havergal Brian: The making of a composer
Harrap, 1976
Review - Malcolm MacDonald
Review - Ronald Stevenson

FOREMAN, Lewis ed
Havergal Brian: A selection of essays
Triad Press, 1969  (limited edition, 325 copies)

FOREMAN, Lewis
Havergal Brian and the performance of his orchestral music
Thames Publishing, 1976  ISBN 0905210018
Review - Ronald Stevenson

MACDONALD, Malcolm
The symphonies of Havergal Brian, vol 1 Symphonies 1-12
Kahn & Averill, 1974  ISBN 0900707283

MACDONALD, Malcolm
The symphonies of Havergal Brian, vol 2 Symphonies 13-29
First edition, Kahn & Averill, 1978
Second edition, Kahn & Averill, 1991  ISBN 0900707437
Review (1978) - David J Brown

MACDONALD, Malcolm
The symphonies of Havergal Brian, vol 3 Symphonies 30-32, Survey and summing-up
Kahn & Averill, 1983  ISBN 090070764X
Review - Martin Anderson

MATTHEW-WALKER, R
Havergal Brian, reminiscences and observations
DGR Books, 1995

NETTEL, Reginald
Havergal Brian: The man and his music
Dobson, 1976  ISBN 023477861X
this book contains a revised version of Ordeal by music (see previous entry)
Review - David J Brown
Review - Ronald Stevenson

NETTEL, Reginald
Music of the five towns
(pre 1945) contains a chapter on Brian's Potteries (ie pre 1913) compositions

NETTEL, Reginald
Ordeal by music:  the strange experience of Havergal Brian
Oxford University Press, 1945
... and after - Reginald Nettel

RAPOPORT, Paul
Opus est
Kahn & Averill, 1978
contains a chapter on Brian among five other composers
Review - David J Brown

SCHAARWÄCHTER, Jürgen ed
HB: Aspects of Havergal Brian
Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 1998  ISBN 1840142383
publisher's webpage
contents

TRUSCOTT, Harold and RAPOPORT, Paul
Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony, with
BRIAN, H : How the Gothic Symphony came to be written
The Havergal Brian Society, 1978

Journals

This section is in preparation

References up to 1983 to periodicals are provided in the bibliography of
MACDONALD, Malcolm The Symphonies of Havergal Brian, vol 3 Symphonies 30-32, Survey and Summing-up, Kahn & Averill, 1983 

BROWN, Marshall  Havergal Brian and his music for orchestra - an introduction, Journal of the Conductors' Guild of the American Symphony Orchestra League, Winter 1984

The Havergal Brian Society Newsletter, issues 1 - 141, 1975-1999 
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