Henry Broughton Raynor (29 January 1917 – 23 July 1989[1]) was a musicologist and a British author.
He was born at 11 Mellor Street, Moston, Manchester, in England, to Gertrude Raynor, an examiner of waterproof garments.
[1] Poor health in childhood left him with time to listen to music and to read extensively.
[3] 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.