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Harnoncourt

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/ ɑnɔ̃cur /

noun

  1. Nikolaus. born 1929, Austrian conductor and cellist, noted for his performances using period instruments

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By then, however, the period-instrument revolution was in full flow; when Paul Hindemith presented a scholarly “attempt to reconstruct the premiere” in Vienna in 1954, Harnoncourt and other members of his recently formed Concentus Musicus Wien played in the ensemble.

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At any rate, doing “Orfeo” in the way that Nikolaus Harnoncourt, John Eliot Gardiner and Jordi Savall have would be impossible at Santa Fe.

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Last year Ms. Suda took the helm of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, but it was led by Anne d’Harnoncourt for more than 25 years beginning in 1982, a storied tenure.

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He didn’t want conductors like Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Roger Norrington to stop performing; he just wanted them to drop the pretense of “authenticity.”

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Anne d’Harnoncourt was director and chief executive from 1982 until her death in 2008; Jean Sutherland Boggs, who formerly led the National Gallery of Canada, was director of the Philadelphia museum from 1978 to 1982.

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