# Bruce Haynes

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This article is about the musician. For the media consultant, see [Bruce Haynes (consultant)](/source/Bruce_Haynes_(consultant)).

**Bruce Haynes** (April 14, 1942 – May 17, 2011) was an American and Canadian [oboist](/source/Oboist), [recorder](/source/Recorder_(musical_instrument)) player, [musicologist](/source/Musicology) and specialist in [historical performance practice](/source/Historically_informed_performance).

## Biography

Bruce Haynes was born in [Louisville, Kentucky](/source/Louisville,_Kentucky), in 1942 and began playing the recorder and [oboe](/source/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](/source/Montreal), [Quebec](/source/Quebec), aged 69.

## Training

After studying the modern oboe with Raymond Dusté and [John de Lancie](/source/John_de_Lancie_(oboist)), Haynes moved to the Netherlands, where he studied [early music performance](/source/Historically_informed_performance) from 1964 to 1967 with [Frans Brüggen](/source/Frans_Br%C3%BCggen) and [Gustav Leonhardt](/source/Gustav_Leonhardt) at the [Royal Conservatory of The Hague](/source/Royal_Conservatory_of_The_Hague). In 1995 he was awarded a [Ph.D.](/source/Ph.D.) in musicology by the [Université de Montréal](/source/Universit%C3%A9_de_Montr%C3%A9al) for a study of historical [pitch](/source/Pitch_(music)) standards.

## Career

### Performing

Haynes began his performing career on the modern oboe in 1960, playing with [orchestras](/source/Orchestra) in San Francisco (the [San Francisco Ballet](/source/San_Francisco_Ballet) and [Opera](/source/San_Francisco_Opera) orchestras) and Jalapa, Mexico. In 1964 he moved to the Netherlands to study early music performance and began playing the early oboe, or [hautboy](/source/Hautboy). Haynes was one of the first 20th-century performers to master the hautboy and was a key figure in setting professional performance standards for it. In the mid-1970s he reintroduced the hautboy to 20th-century France, and was among the first to perform on the instrument in Britain, Italy, and Israel. Haynes performed with [period instrument ensembles](/source/Period_instrument) until the early 2000s and made a number of [solo](/source/Solo_(music)) and [ensemble](/source/Musical_ensemble) recordings. He was a founding member of the [San Francisco](/source/San_Francisco)-based [Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra](/source/Philharmonia_Baroque_Orchestra), along with his wife and long-time musical partner, baroque [cellist](/source/Cellist) and [gambist](/source/Gambist) Susie Napper. He performed and/or recorded with [Frans Brüggen](/source/Frans_Br%C3%BCggen), [Gustav Leonhardt](/source/Gustav_Leonhardt), [Sigiswald Kuijken](/source/Sigiswald_Kuijken) and [Barthold Kuijken](/source/Barthold_Kuijken), among others.

### Instrument-making

Haynes was [apprenticed](/source/Apprentice) to [Friedrich von Huene](/source/Friedrich_von_Huene_(musician)) in Boston, Massachusetts, learning to make copies of original [Baroque](/source/Baroque) [woodwinds](/source/Woodwind). In 1969 he opened his own workshop in California. Subsequently, Haynes devoted himself to performing and research.

### Teaching

Haynes substituted for Frans Brüggen at the [Royal Conservatory of The Hague](/source/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](/source/Universit%C3%A9_de_Montr%C3%A9al) and [McGill University](/source/McGill_University) in [Montreal, Quebec](/source/Montreal), 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 [historical performance practice](/source/Historically_informed_performance) has led to much research and writing. He wrote a number of articles and books (see list below) and was a contributor to [MGG](/source/Die_Musik_in_Geschichte_und_Gegenwart) and the [New Grove Dictionary of Music](/source/New_Grove_Dictionary_of_Music). Areas of research include the construction, repertory and playing techniques of the hautboy; the history of [pitch](/source/Pitch_(music)); historical performance practice; rhetoric; eloquence and the Passions. Haynes held various doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships from the [Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada](/source/Social_Sciences_and_Humanities_Research_Council_of_Canada) and was senior fellow of the [Canada Council for the Arts](/source/Canada_Council_for_the_Arts) in 2003.

### Bach arrangements

In 2011, shortly after Haynes' death, a compact disc was released by the Montréal Baroque conducted by [Eric Milnes](/source/Eric_Milnes) with six *"New Brandenburg concertos Nos. 7-12"* by [Johann Sebastian Bach](/source/Johann_Sebastian_Bach). Bruce Haynes had arranged [Bach cantata](/source/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*](https://books.google.com/books?id=3Vwh0PZ3EuMC) (Scarecrow Press, 2002) ISBN 0-8108-4185-1
- [*The Eloquent Oboe: A History of the Hautboy from 1640 to 1760*](https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Eloquent_Oboe.html?id=LflrQndxBjgC) (Oxford University Press, 2001) ISBN 0-19-816646-X
- [*The Oboe*](https://books.google.com/books?id=wQfnx89NXDUC) (with Geoffrey Burgess[1]), (Yale University Press, 2004) ISBN 0-300-09317-9
- [*The End of Early Music: A Period Performer's History of Music for the Twenty-First Century*](https://web.archive.org/web/20110604142446/http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Music/MusicHistoryWestern/EarlyMusicMedievalRenaissance/?view=usa&ci=9780195189872) (Oxford University Press, 2007)

## References

1. ["Geoffrey Burgess, Musicology"](https://www.ursinus.edu/live/profiles/5807-geoffrey-burgess). *Ursinus College*

- [Janet K. Page](https://www.memphis.edu/music/fac-staff/page-j.php). *Haynes, Bruce*. [The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians](http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/public/).
- [Case Western University 2008-2009 Music and Culture Lecture Series](https://archive.today/20121211085214/http://music.case.edu/musicculture/). *Bruce Haynes*. February 20, 2009.
- Tamara Bernstein. *Book Review: Bruce Haynes, Guru of Rhetorical Music*. [La Scena Musicale](http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm13-1/sm13-1_bookreview_en.html), September 7, 2007.
- Geoffrey Burgess. *Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Bruce Haynes: legendary Pioneer of the Hautboy*. [Bruce Haynes bio from hautboy.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20150225110747/http://hautboy.org/sites/default/files/Bruce%20bio.pdf).[another link](https://web.archive.org/web/20120706161800/http://www.idrs.org/publications/controlled/DR/DR35.1/DR35_1.pdf). The Double Reed. Vol. 35. No. 1. July 2012. p. 65-108.

## External links

- [Music for Oboe](http://haynes-catalog.net/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20220705183117/http://www.haynes-catalog.net/) 2022-07-05 at the Wayback Machine online

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