Augustin Thomas Brown (6 March 1789, Poznan - 10 November 1861, Lviv) was a Polish and Ukrainian violinist, composer (author of mazurkas, polonaises, music for theatre performances) and conductor. Father of the musician Roderick August Brown.
Biography.
He was born on 6 March 1789 in Poznan (now Poland) to a family of Baltic immigrants. He studied violin with his father and with touring musicians.
From 1804 he played the violin in a theatre orchestra in Warsaw, from 1806 he worked as a concertmaster at the Italian Opera in Odesa, and later at the Potocki Counts' Chapel in Tulchyn. In 1810-1816, he was the conductor of the Russian military orchestra in Iași, where he collected local folklore, compiled and published the collection Various Oriental Tunes and Dances in Iași and Bucharest (1810-1815). From 1816 he worked in Lviv as a soloist, concertmaster and conductor of the theatre orchestra, from 1844 - conductor of the chapel in the Dominican church, from 1854 - a violin teacher at the school of the Galician Music Society. He died in Lviv on 10 November 1861.
