Gustav Leonhardt, a Dutch harpsichordist and conductor who was a major figure in the postwar “early music” movement, which sought to give historically authentic performances of music from the Baroque ...

Instead of big orchestras, baton-waving conductors and the shimmering rubato so beloved of the Victorian and Edwardian audiences, Leonhardt considered the way that the composer might have experienced ...

Gustav Leonhardt was an unassuming, private man, and his instrument, the harpsichord, may seem an improbably modest vehicle to bring about a sea-change in the way the music of an entire era is ...

Gustav Leonhardt, probably the most influential harpsichordist of the second half of the 20th century and a leader in the baroque performance-practice revival, died Monday in Amsterdam. He was 83. Mr.

One of the most influential and widely hailed figures in the modern early music movement, conductor, harpsichordist and organist Gustav Leonhardt, has died at 83. Just a month ago, after a concert at ...

NEW YORK - Gustav Leonhardt, the Dutch harpsichordist, organist, and conductor who was a pioneer in the world of period instrument performance and research into Baroque performance styles, died Monday ...

Catherine Bott in conversation with the late Gustav Leonhardt: keyboardist, conductor, musicologist and teacher, who was one of the great pioneers of Early music. Show more Catherine Bott in ...

If you had to single out a personality at the heart of a performance movement in which swathes of new repertoire became accessible to audiences at the height of the LP age and CD revolution, it would ...

Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Gustav Leonhardt, who has died aged 83, was a pioneer and pillar of the early music movement. As a harpsichordist, organist, scholar, conductor and ...

A CONCERT by Gustav Leonhardt was not like any other. He approached his harpsichord with the air of a mortician, slightly flexing his long, delicate hands. As he played he sat bolt upright, gaunt and ...

Gustav Leonhardt, who has died aged 83, was a harpsichordist, perhaps the greatest of his day, whose presence at the Edinburgh Festival was an event of the highest authority and austerity. The ...