Rosemary Brown claimed she had little musical training but produced over 300 pieces of music from long-dead composers including Beethoven, Chopin and even John Lennon.
Rosemary Brown claimed she had little musical training, but produced over 300 pieces of music from long-dead composers during the 1960s and 70s.Recently AI and recording technology has brought some of the world's most beloved deceased performers back to the stage.
"Instead of my finding a piece of music and playing it for myself, I found was guiding my hands at the piano…and it was music that I had never heard before," she wrote in her memoir.Of the more than 300 works "transmitted" to her, most came from classical composers, but there were also works from John Lennon and jazz pianist 'Fats' Waller. Eccentric Australian composer Percy Grainger even gets a mention.
Both supporters and sceptics suggested that the music Brown shared didn't always measure up musically. "I think the music is alright – it is not marvellous," Parrott once wrote. A Professor at Brazil's Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, he agrees that some of her music has "some limitations" but also points to examples that he feels "can really show a very deep knowledge of those composers' styles."For example, a sonata attributed to Franz Schubert, who was active in the early 19th century, displayed "almost all the hallmarks of sonata forms," according to Dr Bomfim's analysis.
Listening to Brown's work attributed to Debussy, Dr Ho can see some hallmarks from the composer's music. Dr Bomfim points out Brown said she wouldn't use her "gift from god" with a dedicated financial interest but did make some money from her medium work. Italian researcher, Dr Lisa Giombini, offers a different perspective. She's examined Brown's work through a lens of musical forgeries.
"Spiritualists in the 19th century saw women as a passive channel for the spirit manifestation, so a pure vessel for the spirits," says Dr Bomfim.
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