One of the most influential and widely hailed figures in the modern early music movement, conductor, harpsichordist and organist Gustav Leonhardt, has died at 83. Just a month ago, after a concert at ...

Gustav Leonhardt, probably the most influential harpsichordist of the second half of the 20th century and a leader in the baroque performance-practice revival, died Monday in Amsterdam. He was 83. Mr.

Gustav Leonhardt, a Dutch harpsichordist and conductor who was a major figure in the postwar “early music” movement, which sought to give historically authentic performances of music from the Baroque ...

Gustav Leonhardt was an unassuming, private man, and his instrument, the harpsichord, may seem an improbably modest vehicle to bring about a sea-change in the way the music of an entire era is ...

NEW YORK - Gustav Leonhardt, the Dutch harpsichordist, organist, and conductor who was a pioneer in the world of period instrument performance and research into Baroque performance styles, died Monday ...

Gustav Leonhardt, who has died aged 83, was a Dutch harpsichordist and conductor and a pioneer of the early music movement; he brought to post-war Europe a new understanding of how the music of Johann ...

There is a tendency to dismiss early 20th-century harpsichords as inferior to the supposedly faithful reproduction of historical harpsichords made during the second half of the century. This belief in ...

Catherine Bott in conversation with the late Gustav Leonhardt: keyboardist, conductor, musicologist and teacher, who was one of the great pioneers of Early music. Show more Catherine Bott in ...

Gustav Leonhardt, he most distinguished harpsichord player alive, lived up to his reputation at the Lufthansa Festival. Rating: Leonhardt * * * * * Ayre * * * This year’s Lufthansa Festival of Baroque ...

Instead of big orchestras, baton-waving conductors and the shimmering rubato so beloved of the Victorian and Edwardian audiences, Leonhardt considered the way that the composer might have experienced ...

Gustav Leonhardt, who has died aged 83, was a harpsichordist, perhaps the greatest of his day, whose presence at the Edinburgh Festival was an event of the highest authority and austerity. The ...

The Dutch harpsichordist and conductor was not just a great musician but also a hugely influential one. His humility and modesty always placed the composer centre-stage, and he opened the ears of ...