Gustav Leonhardt, 1928 - 2012

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  • ostuni
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 549

    Gustav Leonhardt, 1928 - 2012

    Gustav Leonhardt died yesterday. Musician, scholar, gentleman. http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2012/01/...1928-2012.html
  • doversoul1
    Ex Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 7132

    #2
    Oh no....


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    • ardcarp
      Late member
      • Nov 2010
      • 11102

      #3
      Musician, scholar, gentleman
      ...and pioneer. How sadly he will be missed.

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      • BBMmk2
        Late Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 20908

        #4
        How sad. I remember when his mammoth JSB cycle first came out and the scores that were providied with the recordings of JSB's Canatatas series, were very inte3resting. I was quite young then, and made me understand the music much betterr too. RIP GUSTAV LEONHARDT
        Don’t cry for me
        I go where music was born

        J S Bach 1685-1750

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        • amateur51

          #5
          Not always the easiest of pioneers, his legacy is enormous, and his musical and cultural priorities are part of the modern fabric now.

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          • french frank
            Administrator/Moderator
            • Feb 2007
            • 30243

            #6
            Very sad - and explains his recently announced retirement. He leaves a wonderful legacy.
            It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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            • Flosshilde
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 7988

              #7
              Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
              How sad. I remember when his mammoth JSB cycle first came out and the scores that were providied with the recordings of JSB's Canatatas series, were very inte3resting. I was quite young then, and made me understand the music much betterr too. RIP GUSTAV LEONHARDT

              Same here - I couldn't/can't read music, but being able to follow the instruments on the score was enlightening. (mind you, not being so young now I'd probably need a magnifying glass!)

              The amount of supporting material in those boxes was amazing - no chance of getting anything like that now.

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                #8
                By coincidence, I was playing his recording of BWV 40 only this morning - a vigorously joyful performance still sounding as fresh as the day it was recorded.

                Leonhardt was a great Musician who first opened a lot of people's ears to the glories revealed in HIPerformance - and thereby, the glories of Bach. A great loss.
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • doversoul1
                  Ex Member
                  • Dec 2010
                  • 7132

                  #9
                  To me, Gustav Leonhardt was the pillar. From the time when I had very little idea about early music, I trusted him. Find his name and all would be well. It wasn’t a very intelligent way of listening but that didn’t matter. I know he wasn’t young but somehow I took it for granted that he would be there always.

                  RIP.

                  I hope the EMS will broadcast his interview with Catherine Bott.

                  I’ve just checked. It will be broadcast on Saturday. Thank you Radio3
                  Catherine Bott in conversation with an Early music pioneer, the late Gustav Leonhardt.

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                  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                    Gone fishin'
                    • Sep 2011
                    • 30163

                    #10
                    Another interview (from about 12 years ago):

                    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                    • vinteuil
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 12788

                      #11
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                      • Old Grumpy
                        Full Member
                        • Jan 2011
                        • 3596

                        #12
                        Originally posted by doversoul View Post
                        Interesting how this obit was written by Lionel Salter...


                        ... who himself died in 2000.


                        Lionel Salter, who has died aged 85, was an all-round musician who had a long association with the BBC; he became assistant controller of music and was perhaps best known to music lovers as a reviewer for 50 years for the magazine Gramophone. As well as being a pianist, harpsichordist and conductor, he was also a broadcaster, lecturer and administrator.

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                        • Nick Armstrong
                          Host
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 26523

                          #13
                          A giant who has aided me and followed me in my discovery of Bach since my late teens His B minor Mass recording is definitive, for me.

                          (I did find his dogmatic, hard-line approach to Bach on the piano in the recent interview on R3 hard to agree with, but forgave him on the basis that he couldn't have done what he did without an almost obsessive and single-minded commitment)

                          "...the isle is full of noises,
                          Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                          Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                          Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                          • VodkaDilc

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Old Grumpy View Post
                            Interesting how this obit was written by Lionel Salter...


                            ... who himself died in 2000.


                            http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2000/...ianobituaries2
                            No mention of the obituary having been updated since Salter's death. I'm sure there is normally a credit in such circumstances. Guardian cuts perhaps! (Does The Times still have anonymous obits?)

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                            • doversoul1
                              Ex Member
                              • Dec 2010
                              • 7132

                              #15
                              Christopher Hogwood reflects on the life and work of Gustav Leonhardt


                              In Tune yesterday.
                              Last edited by doversoul1; 18-01-12, 20:48. Reason: changed the font

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