Austrian musician died Nikolaus Harnoncourt – Milenio.com

The Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who announced last December his professional retirement, died Saturday at age 86 following a serious illness, as reported today their families.

“On 5 March 2016, Nikolaus Harnoncourt died peacefully surrounded by his family. the grief and gratitude are great. It was a wonderful relationship, “said the wife of the musician, Alice Harnoncourt, in a note of the APA agency.

“My body forces me to cancel my future plans,” he had written a few months ago the musician in a farewell letter manuscript for spectators of the concert hall of the Musikverein in Vienna.

” has created an incredibly deep relationship between us on stage and you are in the room. we have become a happy community of pioneers! “wrote the director in his letter, printed in the concert program of the room.

Thomas Ángyán, director of the Musikverein in Vienna, which the teacher Harnoncourt was a member of honor, expressed dismay at the death of the musician.

“An era has come to an end” he lamented.

“I would never have expected that among its withdrawal from the world of concerts and his death had such a short period,” he said.

Harnoncourt was born in Berlin in 1929 but spent his childhood in the Austrian city of Graz.

It was cellist in the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and professor of Interpretation at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

in the world of opera success began in Zurich and Amsterdam in classical music.

as a director, both on the operatic stage and in the concertístico field, worked with leading soloists and European orchestras.

His album includes operas, oratorios and symphonic works of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

in addition, conducted twice, in 2001 and 2003, the Vienna Philharmonic on New Year’s concert.

in Austria is considered the dean of ancient music and interpretations and theories continue to create divisions among its fervent followers and those who reject decisively.

with its demand to use original instruments and studying historical scores revolutionized the art of interpretation.

Tirelessly sought to understand and reveal what the composer really meant by his work and thus offered new and surprising interpretations.

it was the first to address the recording of Bach’s works in their original form.

in his work was true to his conviction that “the goal is not the beauty of sound, but the transmission of certain qualities of expression”