Raymond Leppard
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- Music Made Me
- The cardboard trumpet
- Raymond Leppard on Music
- Unexplored relationships between early seventeenth century Venetian opera and contemporary music in France and England
- Authenticity in music
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Known for
- Monteverdi - L'Incoronazione Di Poppea — Conductor1984
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Raymond Leppard, CBE (born 11 August 1927) is a British conductor and harpsichordist. He was born in London and grew up in Bath, where he was educated at the City of Bath Boys' School, now known as the Beechen Cliff School. A student of harpsichord and viola at Trinity College, Cambridge, he also was active as a choral conductor and served as music director of the Cambridge Philharmonic Society. In the 1960s, Leppard played an instrumental role in the rebirth of interest in baroque music; in
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Raymond
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- Indianapolis
- Occupation
- harpsichordist
- Employer
- University of Indianapolis
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- harpsichord
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- P8168
- Sacro Monte di Oropa
- date of birth
- 1927-08-11
- student
- Hugh Macdonald
- date of death
- 2019-10-22
- birth name
- Raymond John Leppard
- place of burial
- Crown Hill Cemetery
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