Brian Ferneyhough
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Brian Ferneyhough is a British composer renowned for his extremely complex, densely notated works and as a leading figure of the New Complexity movement in contemporary classical music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Brian Ferneyhough canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6090888 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian Ferneyhough Context triple: [Elliott Carter, influenced, Brian Ferneyhough]
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A.
Bill Eyre
Bill Eyre was an early British aviation figure best known as a co-founder of the Hawker Aircraft company, a major producer of military aircraft in the 20th century.
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B.
Bill Eyre
Bill Eyre is an individual whose specific public background or notable achievements are not clearly documented in widely available sources.
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C.
Paul Rutherford
Paul Rutherford is a British singer and musician best known as the backing vocalist and dancer for the 1980s pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
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D.
Graham Dalton
Graham Dalton is the enigmatic, emotionally reserved drifter obsessed with videotaping women's confessions in Steven Soderbergh's film "Sex, Lies, and Videotape."
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E.
Paul Mealor
Paul Mealor is a Welsh composer renowned for his choral and ceremonial music, including works written for major royal occasions.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian Ferneyhough Target entity description: Brian Ferneyhough is a British composer renowned for his extremely complex, densely notated works and as a leading figure of the New Complexity movement in contemporary classical music.
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A.
Bill Eyre
Bill Eyre was an early British aviation figure best known as a co-founder of the Hawker Aircraft company, a major producer of military aircraft in the 20th century.
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B.
Bill Eyre
Bill Eyre is an individual whose specific public background or notable achievements are not clearly documented in widely available sources.
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C.
Paul Rutherford
Paul Rutherford is a British singer and musician best known as the backing vocalist and dancer for the 1980s pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
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D.
Graham Dalton
Graham Dalton is the enigmatic, emotionally reserved drifter obsessed with videotaping women's confessions in Steven Soderbergh's film "Sex, Lies, and Videotape."
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E.
Paul Mealor
Paul Mealor is a Welsh composer renowned for his choral and ceremonial music, including works written for major royal occasions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
composer
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contemporary classical composer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th-century classical music
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21st-century classical music ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Darmstadt School
NERFINISHED
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European avant-garde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
NERFINISHED
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Kranichsteiner Musikpreis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1943-01-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Birmingham School of Music
NERFINISHED
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Royal Academy of Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Ferneyhough NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | contemporary classical music ⓘ |
| givenName | Brian ⓘ |
| influenced | New Complexity composers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | musical notation ⓘ |
| living | true ⓘ |
| movement | New Complexity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Brian Ferneyhough NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
densely notated scores
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extremely complex musical notation ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bone Alphabet
NERFINISHED
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Carceri d’invenzione NERFINISHED ⓘ Cassandra’s Dream Song NERFINISHED ⓘ La Terre est un homme NERFINISHED ⓘ Mnemosyne NERFINISHED ⓘ String Quartet No. 2 NERFINISHED ⓘ String Quartet No. 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ Superscriptio NERFINISHED ⓘ Time and Motion Study II NERFINISHED ⓘ Unity Capsule NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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music educator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Coventry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| position | William H. Bonsall Professor in Music at Stanford University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
dense polyphony
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extended instrumental techniques ⓘ highly detailed performance instructions ⓘ micro-rhythmic subdivisions ⓘ rhythmic complexity ⓘ |
| taughtAt |
Darmstädter Ferienkurse
NERFINISHED
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Freiburg University of Music NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Conservatory of The Hague NERFINISHED ⓘ Stanford University NERFINISHED ⓘ University of California, San Diego NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Brian Ferneyhough Description of subject: Brian Ferneyhough is a British composer renowned for his extremely complex, densely notated works and as a leading figure of the New Complexity movement in contemporary classical music.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.