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, 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 ...

Gustav Leonhardt was the most austere of the fathers of the Early Music movement. But there's more to his personality, and playing, than intellectual rigour - even if he did wear the sharpest suits of ...

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 ...

If you had to single out a personality at the heart of a performance movement in which swathes of new repertoire became accessible to audiences at the height of the LP age and CD revolution, it would ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A CONCERT by Gustav Leonhardt was not like any other. He approached his harpsichord with the air of a mortician, slightly flexing his long, delicate hands. As he played he sat bolt upright, gaunt and ...

Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Gustav Leonhardt, who has died aged 83, was a pioneer and pillar of the early music movement. As a harpsichordist, organist, scholar, conductor and ...