Rosemary Brown (spiritualist)

Rosemary Brown (1916 - November 16, 2001) was a spirit medium who claimed that dead composers dictated new musical works to her. She created a small media sensation in the 1970s by claiming to produce works dictated to her by Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Johann Sebastian Bach, Rachmaninov, Franz Schubert, Edvard Grieg, Claude Debussy, Chopin, and Ludwig Beethoven.

Mrs Brown had had some minimal musical training when a child.

Various musicologists opined that while the works were stylistically similar to their claimed composers, none were of equal quality to those produced by the composers during their actual lifetimes.

A recording of the music (The Rosemary Brown Piano Album) and various books by Mrs Brown (Unfinished Symphony) were published.

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Rosemary Brown was also a Canadian politician.