User:Phi1ip

Philip Legge
I am a musician and information technology worker living in Melbourne, Australia, and an infrequent contributor to Wikipedia, the reason being that I invest most of my time editing musical works, many of which are freely available at the Choral Public Domain Library or the Petrucci Music Library (where I am an active contibutor), and have an interest in many diverse musical subjects. I tend only to step in to edit pages when they contain outrageously incorrect information! (That is, to say, practically never.)


 * Havergal Brian
 * I am the principal author of the Wikipedia article on Brian’s most notable work, the Gothic Symphony, arguably the largest choral-orchestral composition in the history of Western art music. I am one of the team of proof-readers and editors of the UK-based Havergal Brian Society’s Scores Sub-Committee, which is currently typesetting this work, amongst others; I am the principal editor of Brian’s Seventh Symphony, which is mercifully written for a much smaller orchestra!

Other articles I occasionally keep an eye on:


 * Requiem masses, e.g.
 * the requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as it is notoriously surrounded by misinformation as well as outright myth.


 * Hector Berlioz


 * Antoine Brumel


 * Gustav Mahler


 * the unfinished Tenth Symphony in F sharp minor.

Non-music related:


 * Tall structures
 * Melbourne
 * the IAU's new planet definition
 * Interesting large TNOs, mostly discovered since 2000: Pluto, Charon, Varuna, Ixion, Quaoar, Sedna, Orcus, Haumea, Eris, and Makemake
 * Brian Lara, Ricky Ponting prolific batsmen (cricket)
 * Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, possibly the most beautifully typeset book ever printed?

Philip Legge phi1ip@netscape&middot;net Updated: 8 February 2011