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- 1909-2015 (Creation)
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2 boxes, paper and electronic
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William Charles Denis Browne (1888-1915), matriculated at Clare in 1907. He was admitted on a Classics scholarship but spent most of his time at College pursuing musical interests and rowing. Took a teaching position at Repton after Clare but was there less than a year and then took a job as organist at Guy's hospital in London. He then taught music at Morley College at the same time as working at Guy's hospital and was also a music critic for the Times and New Statesman. He was killed in action at Gallipoli during the First World War.
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Manuscripts of fourteen compositions: thirteen are songs and the other is a miniature suite for full orchestra; also newspaper cuttings and other papers.
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Digital scans of some mss at E-ARCHIVES\CCPP\CCPP_BRO
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Digital compositions of 'Two dances for small orchestra' by Robert Wheedon are stored electronically with the digital scans of the mss.
A volume of Everyman and Miracle Plays, annotated by WDB, was kept and also annotated by Mansfield Forbes - see CCHR/2/FOR/4/6 WDB's correspondence with Rupert Brooke and Edward Marsh (King's College RCB/S/6/1-2), along with some of his personal effects including photographs (RCB/S/11) kept by Rupert Brooke, have been catalogued as part of the Schroder Collection at King's College, Cambridge. See digitised copies in the Cambridge University Digital Library: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/schroder/1.
Publication note
Trevor Hold (Ed.) Six Songs W. Denis Browne No. 10, Heritage of English Song (Thames Publishing, c.1989)