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British conductor and harpsichordist (1927-2019)

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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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Active from
1977

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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

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date of birth
1927-08-11
date of death
2019-10-22
birth name
Raymond John Leppard
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