harpsichordist
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For his return to Carnegie Hall on Thursday evening, though, the superb harpsichordist Jean Rondeau turned them off.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
My father was a harpsichordist of some note.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2022
The temptation to decorate, then, can be as irresistible to a harpsichordist at the keyboard as it is to an artist with a pencil in hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
She was born Lois Nilson in Worcester, Mass. A classically trained harpsichordist, pianist and organist, she was a part of the Washington classical music scene for nearly 40 years.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2021
In his library she found Queen Elizabeth's Virginal Book, and being a skilled harpsichordist, she so well mastered its intricacies that people thronged to her home to hear her play.
From For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music by Moore, Aubertine Woodward
Only a handful of harpsichordists have become well known, let alone stars.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
Bach, a canon to which she dedicated her life as one of the world’s premier harpsichordists, died Sept. 27 at a hospital in Prague.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2017
But British harpsichordists snapped up his works when they were published, and Charles Avison, the program’s one native Englishman, alluded to Scarlatti’s pieces in his own concertos.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2012
But harpsichordists tend to mine it only a piece or two at a time.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2011
But today's handful of harpsichordists point out the undeniable fact that only they can make this 18th-Century music sound the way it did in the 18th Century.
From Time Magazine Archive
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