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b. 1929 Austrian conductor Harnoncourt was a cellist in the Vienna Symphony Orchestra 1952–62. He founded the Vienna Concentus Musicus, a period instrument orchestra, in 1953. He conducted and recorded Monteverdi operas in Zürich in the 1970s and Mozart operas in the 1980s; since then he has broadened his repertory and often conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Introduction | ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

, and at Covent Garden Opera 1987–2002, then principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden 2002–04 and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra 2006–10. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Nikolaus Harnoncourt | Contemporary | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

b. 1958 French cellist Coin studied the cello in Caen, at the Paris Conservatoire, and in Vienna with Harnoncourt. He studied the viola da gamba at the Basle Schola Cantorum, 1977–79. He played with the Vienna Concentus Musicus, Hesperion XX and the Academy of Ancient Music, 1977–83. Since 1984 he has followed a career as a ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Baroque opera. That viability was finally established in the 1970s and 80s, thanks to conductors such as Gardiner and Hogwood in Britain, and, in mainland Europe, Harnoncourt (notably in productions of Monteverdi staged in Zürich by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, 1932–88) and Arnold Östman (b. 1939) (at the eighteenth-century opera house at Drottningholm in Sweden). With contemporary works ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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