Alan Civil

Alan Civil (13 June 1929 – 19 March 1989) was an English French horn player. Civil began to play the horn at a young age and joined the famous Royal Artillery Band and Orchestra at Woolwich while still in his teens. He studied the instrument under Aubrey Brain, father of Dennis Brain, in 1943 and later with Willy von Stemm in Hamburg. Civil was engaged by Thomas Beecham to play second horn to Dennis Brain in the.

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