MEXICO CITY (proceso.com.mx) .- Retired since last December from his musical activity, the famous Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt died in Vienna at age 86 due to a serious illness not specified by their families, who informed curtly:
“The March 5, 2016, Nikolaus Harnoncourt died serenely rolled her family. Grief and gratitude are great. Has been a wonderful relationship, “said his wife, Alice Hoffelner, according to information from APA agency.
Born in Berlin, Germany on December 6, 1929, also a cellist was honorary member of the Vienna Musikverein , whose director Thomas Ángyán expressed dismay that the death of the musician has caused in the field of music worldwide:
“An era has come to an end … I never expected that among its withdrawal from the world concerts and his death had such a short “period.
on Dec. 5, one day before his 86th birthday, Harnoncourt announced his retirement in a letter included in the concert program of the ensemble Concentus Musicus Vien, founded by him, which said:
“My physical forces compel me to cancel all my future plans”
in the Twitter account of Harnoncourt have been expressed many. sympathy and gratitude for his legacy. He was a pioneer in the interpretation of the so-called Early Music, a term referring to European repertoire composed between 1250 and 1750, it revolutionized the art of execution with the requirement to use original historical instruments and studying scores. It is even considered the dean of early music.
Professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the musician who spent his childhood in the Austrian city of Graz, was also a director of opera. He recorded several albums of opera, oratorios and symphonic works from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries.
In analyzing the operatic works of Rameau (1683-1764), the late music critic of Process , Jose Antonio Alcaraz, quoted the words of “solvency and proverbial acuteness” of Harnoncourt, who considered:
“contrary to instrumental music, whose recording was usually very accurate, composers opera (Monteverdi and Cavalli from) wrote his scores in the form of (what we now regard as) outline. Its purpose by acting in this way was to let the creative autonomy of each director enough free field, while adapting each time -shaped work optimally, according to the given circumstances. “
Alcaraz said at the time that Harnoncourt “particularly sought unsuccessfully away, with the ‘traditional’ patterns for the interpretation of Rameau have been to so far unpublished sources This has led him to insist particularly on the rhythmic aspect in its version; so many errors solfeo that had spread in the performance of French music of the XVIII, are corrected by carefully examining the ornamentation and implement convictions full of dynamism, in turn the result of intensive research that both have an act of love as authentic wisdom. “
he always strove to seek what he considered the composer meant by his work. And so surprised with innovative interpretations
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