The British conductor and harpsichordist Christopher Hogwood died on Wednesday at the age of 73 years after a long illness in Cambridge. He was in the eighties and nineties one of the main torchbearers of the early music movement. Recently, it was – at least in Germany – around him become rather quiet. His goal of a complete recording of all Haydn’s symphonies he has not achieved after his now adjusted root label L’Oiseau lyre had terminated the employees it within the mother Decca.
Christopher Hogwood, expresses a well-read, but also difficult to Cracking fellow who always looked on the podium a little aloof, and very British, was born in 1941 in Nottingham. It started with conductor Raymond Leppard. While studying in Cambridge, when he had occupied Latin, Greek and philosophy, because he wanted to become an archaeologist originally, he met the conductor Raymond Leppard, who advised him to make his harpsichord playing more than just a hobby.
In 1973, he founded his own orchestra
Hogwood joined the faculty began with his harpsichord studies with Rafael Puyana and Mary Potts, later He studied in Prague and with Gustav Leonhardt. Subsequently, he was harpsichordist of the Early Music Consort in London, an ensemble devoted himself with great success to the music of the Renaissance. In 1965 he was continuo harpsichordist at the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields by Neville Marriner. In 1973 he founded, on a proposal from the Decca, the Academy of Ancient Music and made this project orchestra including choir as prominent center of his interest in historical performance practice.
33 year was Christopher Hogwood the soul of the Academy, jointly built over 200 CDs with music by Handel, Vivaldi, Bach, Beethoven, and an exemplary recording of the complete Mozart symphonies. His profound knowledge of the Ancient Music Hogwood also brought to conducting major orchestras that could provide authentic about Bach or Mozart from him and the terrain did not want to leave alone the Baroque formations. But he plays with these formations also works by Copland and Stravinsky.
He danced his pace and even before
In 1992, Hogwood, who also published many critical scores, also a professor of Early Music at the London Royal Academy of Music. Even as a writer, he has made a name. He wrote, among other things, a basic musical guide to the trio sonata and a highly acclaimed, so liquid-to-read, restrictive as to the essential biography of his idol George Frideric Handel.
And always attended his basic tempo, which he sometimes pretended as an active dancer and his musicians have left gentleman way. Also liked other incited by the scores he wanted – very British -. Enjoying always
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