Davitt Moroney

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Davitt Moroney (born 1950) is a British-born musicologist, harpsichordist and organist. His parents were Irish and Italian. He performed his undergraduate and graduate studies in musicology at King's College London, the faculty of which included Thurston Dart, a great influence on the world of early music. Moroney later pursued advanced harpsichord studies with Kenneth Gilbert and Gustav Leonhardt. Moroney also holds performance and teaching diplomas (1974) from the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music. After earning his Ph.D. in musicology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980 with a thesis on the music of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, he returned to Paris and worked mainly as a freelance performer until returning to the United States to serve on the faculty at UC Berkeley in 2001. After leaving Berkeley, for twenty-one years he was based in Paris, working mostly as a freelance recitalist in many countries. For his services to music he was named Chevalier in "Order of Cultural Merit" by Prince Rainier III of Monaco (1988), and the French government named him Officier in the "Order of Arts and Letters" (2000). He returned to Berkeley as a Professor in August 2001. He is also University Organist. He has given the first modern performances of much repertoire; the Livre de tablature de Clavescin by Marc Roger Normand Couperin of Turin, whose works he identified in 1997, the complete organ works of Louis Couperin and a newly-discovered autograph

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Le Clavecin Français: Louis Marchand & Louis-Nicolas Clérambault

Bach - French Suites

Louis Couperin : L'OEuvre d'un Orgue

Music from the Borel Manuscript and other sources, Vol. 1

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Couperin: Complete Harpsichord Works

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Biber - The Mystery Sonatas

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Bach 100 Best

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World Of Music Sixth Edition

Johann Jacob Froberger : Pieces pour le clavier

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J.S. Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080 (The Art of Fugue)

Byrd: The Complete Keyboard Music

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100 Best Bach

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