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Offline gep

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Gustav Leonardt dies
on: January 17, 2012, 03:08:58 PM
Gustav Leonardt, keyboardist extraordinaire and one of the pioneers of "authentich performance practice" died on the 16th of January, aged 83. A giant is no more....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Leonhardt

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Re: Gustav Leonardt dies
Reply #1 on: January 18, 2012, 06:33:54 AM
RIP indeed. He was one of the first to expose me to how beautiful period performance can be.
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Re: Gustav Leonardt dies
Reply #2 on: January 18, 2012, 07:14:33 AM
Oh my, that is sad news, indeed.  I was listening to a recording of his Well-Tempered Clavier just last night but wasn't aware that he passed away.  Leonhardt and his generation of early music artists did a lot to promote the resurgence of interest and performance of keyboard music of pre-Romantic composers.
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Haydn: Sonata in C No. 35
Scarlatti: K. 1, 380, 443
Blasco de Nebra: Sonata V
Handel: Fantasia in C G.60
Couperin: La Reville Matin
Rameau: La Dauphine
Pachelbel, Trabaci, Frescobaldi: Various
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