Word: harpsichordist
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Ivete Piveteau: French harpsichordist. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 the Fenway...
...there was little need to revive the past. But as the musical repertory gradually evolved into a monument to the 19th century, inquiring performers began to look backward. Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940), an English musician and instrumentmaker, rediscovered the nearly forgotten world of the viol, lute and clavichord, and Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska almost singlehanded shattered the romantic tradition of performing Bach on the piano. "You play Bach your way," she once told a colleague, "and I'll play...
...original-instrument performers are Landowska's heirs. Once considered the last refuge of a poor musician, authentic instruments now attract performers of international caliber: Dutch Violinist Jaap Schroder, who collaborated with Hogwood on the Mozart symphony series, the English Concert's Pinnock, a top-notch harpsichordist whose reading of Bach's Goldberg Variations is perhaps the most convincing on discs; American Pianist Malcolm Bilson, one of the leading exponents of classical keyboard music, which he plays on the fortepiano, a predecessor of the modern instrument. "Everybody understands that there must be different sopranos for Mozart and Wagner...
CLASSICAL. Bach: Goldberg Variations (Archiv). Harpsichordist Trevor Pinnock captures all the stately grandeur and dashing spirits of Bach's masterpiece. Beethoven...
DIED. Karl Richter, 54, German conductor, harpsichordist and organist who founded the Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra, through which he became internationally known for his rigorous, emotional interpretations of Bach and as a leader of the Bach-Handel revival of the '50s and '60s; of a heart attack; in Munich. Richter, who in recent years was himself labeled a romantic by more severely "authentic" Bach interpreters, attributed the zeal for authenticity to "a certain snobbishness" and said: "As a whole, properly performed, Bach always will stay right in the spirit of the present...