Henry Raynor

Henry Broughton Raynor (29 January 1917 – 23 July 1989 ) was a musicologist and a British author.

Biography He was born at 11 Mellor Street, Moston, Manchester, in England, to Gertrude Raynor, an examiner of waterproof garments. The Raynor family was poor and Raynor's formal education was limited by the family's lack of resources.

An example of Raynor's thought is his thesis that the orchestral bombast that developed in nineteenth-century Romantic music was spurred by the need to capture and maintain a fickle, musically untrained paying audience. The demise of aristocratic patronage after the Napoleonic Wars left composers and performers in search of new ways to sustain a career in music.