Harnoncourt

British  

/ ɑnɔ̃cur /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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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In the ’70s, at the request of Anne d’Harnoncourt, then Philadelphia’s curator of modern and contemporary art, Johns lent the museum some prized early sculptures from his personal holdings — the famous ale cans among them.

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In 2009, he joined the museum following the sudden death of his predecessor, Anne d’Harnoncourt, from whom he inherited a $500 million expansion and renovation project, designed by Frank Gehry.

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