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Harnoncourt

British  
/ ɑnɔ̃cur /

noun

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

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One example: She had collaborated on several projects with the late early music specialist Nikolaus Harnoncourt, but balked when he rather improbably proposed that she take on Verdi’s “Aida.”

From Washington Times • Aug. 23, 2019

Beethoven piano concertos are not entirely out of character for Aimard, who recorded them a number of years ago with the early music specialist Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2017

Perhaps it takes an Austrian genius like Harnoncourt to understand the Fifth: his recording takes on a mystical air, with the first-movement Adagio-Allegro transformed into a dream sequence of marches and chorales.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 3, 2017

Nikolaus Harnoncourt was one of several musical titans to leave us this year.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2016

The conductor and expert on eighteenth-century music Nikolaus Harnoncourt describes the opera as ‘one of the best works in eighteenth-century music theatre’ - praise indeed from an impeccably knowledgeable source.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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