Gustav Leonhardt

Gustav Leonhardt helped make historically informed performance central to modern listening. The Dutch harpsichordist, organist, and conductor became especially associated with Baroque music and the works of Bach. His austere sound, scholarship, and recordings shaped several generations of early-music performers.

2 articles related to Gustav Leonhardt:

FLUTE

The early collaboration of flute and viol in the court of Versailles

In one of his marvelous court paintings, André Bouys depicts four prominent composers working on a composition for... 5 comments
HARPSICHORD

The Renaissance swan song for the English monarchy

Thomas Tomkins (1572–1656) was a prominent English composer of the generation that flourished in England in the late...