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Violet Gordon-Woodhouse (23 April 1872 – 9 January 1948) was a British keyboard player. She specialised in the harpsichord and clavichord, and was influential in bringing both instruments back into fashion. She was the first person to record the harpsichord, and the first to broadcast harpsichord music. [1]
She studied the harpsichord under Robert Woolley and was awarded a Junior Fellowship at the Royal College of Music. [2] Following on from this she was a harpsichordist for the Live Music Now Scheme, performed regularly at the Handel Hendrix House [3] and played and coached singers for the all-female choir Vivaldi’s Women. [4]
Musicians who play the harpsichord are known as harpsichordists. This list includes post 19th-century harpsichordists. This list includes post 19th-century harpsichordists. Notable earlier harpsichordists mostly appear on the list of Baroque composers .
Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood CBE (10 September 1941 – 24 September 2014) was an English conductor, harpsichordist, and musicologist.Founder of the early music ensemble the Academy of Ancient Music, he was an authority on historically informed performance and a leading figure in the early music revival of the late 20th century.
[citation needed] Thus the Neupert firm still offers its mid-century "Bach" model for sale, defending it explicitly on the grounds of its suitability for 20th-century music. [3] The transition of harpsichord building toward historicist principles is covered in detail by Hubbard (1965), Zuckermann (1969), and Kottick (2003), cited below.
Gannon seated at his first harpsichord, completed in 1952. While reading a series of articles about Tibet in a magazine, Gannon stumbled across an article, which, he believed, was by Violet Gordon Woodhouse, a British harpsichordist and clavichord player of the period. The article was about the revival of the harpsichord, which interested young ...
[2] Since then he has given harpsichord and organ recitals in the UK and abroad and performed on BBC Radio and television. Dame Janet Baker selected his recording of Scarlatti sonatas as her "favourite" on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 1982. [ 3 ]