Bruce Haynes

Bruce Haynes (April 14, 1942 – May 17, 2011) was an American and Canadian

Bruce Haynes was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1942 and began playing the recorder and oboe at an early age. His father also played the recorder and oboe and was a music teacher. Haynes died on May 17, 2011, in Montreal, Quebec aged 69.

Training

After studying the modern oboe with Raymond Dusté and John de Lancie, Haynes moved to the Netherlands, where he studied early music performance from 1964 to 1967 with Frans Brüggen and Gustav Leonhardt at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In 1995 he was awarded a

Haynes substituted for Frans Brüggen at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He also started a class in hautboy there, the first in the Netherlands, which he taught until the early 1980s. Haynes was an associate professor of the Université de Montréal and McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was also frequently invited as a guest lecturer by other universities and musical associations.

Research and writing

Haynes' interest in the hautboy and in

Bach arrangements

In 2011, shortly after Haynes' death, a compact disc was released by the Montréal Baroque conducted by Eric Milnes with six "New Brandenburg concertos Nos. 7-12" by Johann Sebastian Bach. Bruce Haynes had arranged Bach cantata movements into concertos in the same manner as Bach used to rework his own compositions. "These concertos are not meant as serious reconstructions", Haynes wrote in the cd-booklet, "merely as speculative trials to demonstrate the possibilities for instrumental treatment of Bach's rich fund of musical inventions contained in the cantatas and other vocal works".^{[citation needed]}

Selected writings

• Music for Oboe, 1650–1800: a Bibliography (Berkeley, 1985, 2/1992)
• Lully and the Rise of the Oboe as seen in Works of Art, EMc, xvi (1988), 324–38
• Pitch Standards in the Baroque and Classical Periods (diss., U. of Montreal, 1995)
• A History of Performing Pitch: The Story of A (Scarecrow Press, 2002)
  ISBN 0-8108-4185-1
• The Eloquent Oboe: A History of the Hautboy from 1640 to 1760 (Oxford University Press, 2001)
  ISBN 0-19-816646-X
• The Oboe (with Geoffrey Burgess
  ISBN 0-300-09317-9
• The End of Early Music: A Period Performer's History of Music for the Twenty-First Century (Oxford University Press, 2007)

References

• Janet K. Page. Haynes, Bruce. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
• Case Western University 2008-2009 Music and Culture Lecture Series. Bruce Haynes. February 20, 2009.
• Tamara Bernstein. Book Review: Bruce Haynes, Guru of Rhetorical Music. La Scena Musicale, September 7, 2007.
• Geoffrey Burgess. Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Bruce Haynes: legendary Pioneer of the Hautboy. Bruce Haynes bio from hautboy.org.another link. The Double Reed. Vol. 35. No. 1. July 2012. p. 65-108.

External links

• Bruce Haynes discography at Discogs
• Music for Oboe Archived 2022-07-05 at the Wayback Machine online