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Gustav Leonhardt
12+ albums
baroqueClassicalharpsichordearly musicconductor
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Gustav Leonhardt (30 May 1928, 's-Graveland – 16 January 2012, Amsterdam) was a renowned Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor. Leonhardt was a leading figure in the movement to perform music on period instruments. He professionally played many instruments, including the harpsichord, pipe organ, claviorganum (a combination of harpsichord and organ), clavichord and fortepiano. He also conducted orchestras and choruses. He was born in 's-Graveland, North Holland and studied organ and harpsichord from 1947 to 1950 with Eduard Müller at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel. In 1950, he made his debut as a harpsichordist in Vienna, where he studied musicology. He was professor of harpsichord at the Academy of Music from 1952 to 1955 and at the Amsterdam Conservatory from 1954. He was also a church organist. Leonhardt performed and conducted a variety of solo, chamber, orchestral, operatic, and choral music from the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods. Among the dozens of composers whose music he recorded as a harpsichordist, organist, clavichordist, fortepianist, chamber musician or conductor were Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Heinrich Biber, John Blow, Georg Böhm, William Byrd, André Campra, François Couperin, Louis Couperin, John Dowland, Jacques Duphly, Antoine Forqueray, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johann Jakob Froberger, Orlando Gibbons, André Grétry, George Frideric Handel, Jacques-Martin Hottet
top songs
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So ist mein Jesus nun gefangen - Sind Blitze, sind Donner in Wolken verschwunden
5,5812La Forqueray. Rondeau (Jaques Duphly)
3,5793Valet Will Ich Dir Geben, BWV 736
3,4704Suite in D major, La Tronchin
3,1275Suite in g minor, La Clement
2,6826Suite in g minor, Sarabande. La d'Aubonne
2,0197Suite in D major, La Regent?EFor?????P?
1,9328Suite in g minor, La Carillon de Passy - La Latour
1,7629La superbe, ou la Forqueray (Francois Couperin)
1,70110Suite in D major, La Morangis ou La Plissay
1,593albums
Aontoine Forqueray: Suite in D, Suite in g
J.S. Bach: Matthäus-Passion BWV 244
J. S. Bach: Orgelwerke
Bach:Werke aus dem "Notenbüchlein für Anna M. Bach
Lully:Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme/Campra:L'Europe Gal
Bach : Inventions & Sinfonias
Couperin, Poglietti, Grigny & Rameau: Keyboard Works
Purcell/Blow: Voluntaries, Suites & Grounds
Bach - English Suites
Bach: Die Kunst Der Fuge
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Bach, JS : Sacred Cantatas BWV Nos 52 & 54 - 56
Bach, JS : Sacred Cantatas BWV Nos 106 - 108