Gustav Leonhardt (born 30 May 1928, 's-Graveland) is a highly acclaimed Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor. Leonhardt has been a leader in the movement to perform music on period instruments. The keyboard instruments on which he has performed and recorded include the harpsichord, pipe organ, claviorganum (a combination of a harpsichord and an organ), clavichord, and fortepiano.
From 1947 to 1950 Gustav Leonhardt st...
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Gustav Leonhardt (born 30 May 1928, 's-Graveland) is a highly acclaimed Dutch keyboard player, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor. Leonhardt has been a leader in the movement to perform music on period instruments. The keyboard instruments on which he has performed and recorded include the harpsichord, pipe organ, claviorganum (a combination of a harpsichord and an organ), clavichord, and fortepiano.
From 1947 to 1950 Gustav Leonhardt studied organ and harpsichord with Eduard Müller at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel. He made his debut as a harpsichordist in Vienna in 1950 and studied musicology there. He served as professor of harpsichord at the Academy of Music from 1952 to 1955 and as professor of harpsichord at the Amsterdam Conservatory from 1954. He also was a church organist.
Leonhardt made his first recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach's works for harpsichord in the early 1950s. These recordings established his reputation as a fine harpsichordist and brilliant...
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