Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the conductor, who has died aged 86, was a scion of the Hapsburg family, pioneer of the period instrument movement and one of the most important collectors of historical musical ...

Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt is one of the handful of big names behind what we now think of as the sound of Baroque music. Coinciding with his 80th birthday is this fascinating two-disc ...

VIENNA (AP) — Nikolaus Harnoncourt stepped down from the podium last year in the same manner that characterized his work as one of the world’s famous conductors. With style, but without fanfare. “Dear ...

Widely influential conductor and early-music specialist Nikolaus Harnoncourt has died at age 86 in the Austrian village of St. Georgen im Attergau, near Salzburg. His wife, Alice Harnoncourt, ...

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, an Austrian conductor whose internationally renowned career first focused on a search for authenticity in baroque and other old music and later expanded into masterful ...

Can it be true? Nikolaus Harnoncourt – pope of the period movement, master of Mozart – conducts Gershwin. This is the musician who spent his early career spanning the repertoire as principal cello of ...

Since Charles Mackerras's superb recordings with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra appeared in 2008, we have been quite spoiled by new accounts of Mozart's last three symphonies, most recently from Frans ...

One of the most influential conductors of the 20th century, he brought a historical perspective to his work Nikolaus Harnoncourt, who has died aged 86, was one of the most innovative and influential ...

The celebrated Austrian conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt - considered to be the "pope" of the baroque music revival - has died in Vienna aged 86. A statement on his website, external said he "took his ...