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Henry Brant

Canadian-American composer

From: Montréal, United States
Active: 1913–2008
Releases: 17

classical
contemporary classical
modern classical

About

Henry Dreyfuss Brant (September 15, 1913 – April 26, 2008) was a Canadian-born American composer. An expert orchestrator with a flair for experimentation, many of Brant's works featured spatialization techniques.

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Member of

Young Composers' Group now

Discography

Albums 13

George Antheil: Ballet mécanique / Henry Brant: Signs & Alarms / Galaxy 2 (1954) 1955
Brant: Angels and Devils; Concerto for flute solo with flute orchestra / Fine: Excerpts from Music for Piano / Fine: Mutability – a cycle of six songs 1957
Hanson: Dies Natalis / Benson: The Leaves Are Falling / Brant: Angels and Devils 1984
Brant / Scelsi / Wolpe / Xenakis / Cage / Glass / Feldman 1995
Y Bolanzero 2001
The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 1 2003
The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 3 2006
The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 5: Autumn Hurricanes 2006
The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 7: A Concord Symphony 2006
Music for Massed Flutes 2006
The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 6: Rainforest 2007
The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 9 2007
Ives/Brant: A Concord Symphony / Copland: Organ Symphony 2011

EPs 1

Ice Field 2019

Compilations 3

The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 8 2007
The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 4: Meteor Farm 2006
The Henry Brant Collection, Volume 2 2004

Married

Patricia Gorman Brant now

Teacher

George Antheil now
Stuart Sankey now
Aaron Copland now
Wallingford Riegger now
Daniel Dorff

Identifiers

MusicBrainz: ceaecbb3-3c40-4186-a1ac-ede9525f68be
ISNI: 0000000114876140

Data from MusicBrainz, saved 7 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.