Frans Brüggen has died at the age of 79.

The conductor Frans Brüggen has died at the age of 79.

▶ Wed, 2014-08-13 16:37 by Rosie Pentreath, BBC Music magazine.

Born in Amsterdam in 1934, Brüggen was a celebrated early music conductor, flautist and recorder player. In 1981, he founded the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, which now has over sixty members and with which he made many recordings.

'Frans Brüggen’s approach to authenticity is by now itself a part of history,' wrote Nicholas Williams in a BBC Music Magazine review of Brüggen's recording of Mozart's Symphonies Nos 40 & 41 with the orchestra.

As well as conducting his period-instrument orchestra, Brüggen was joint principal guest conductor of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment from 1992 onwards and was director of the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra from 1991 to 1994. He also conducted the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the English Chamber Orchestra and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

He studied musicology at the University of Amsterdam and at the age of 21 was appointed Professor at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. He was one of the youngest musical scholars at the time and went on to hold positions at Harvard University (Erasmus Professor) and Berkeley University (Regent’s Professor).

The conductor is survived by his wife, the art historian Machtelt Israëls, and his two daughters, Zephyr and Eos.

Eliot McGuire

古楽演奏権威、フランス・ブリュッヘンさん死去

▶ 2014年08月14日 00時53分　読売新聞

　日本の音楽関係者に入った連絡によると、古楽演奏の世界的権威でオランダのリコーダー奏者、指揮者のフランス・ブリュッヘンさんが１３日、アムステルダムの自宅で死去した。７９歳だった。

　アムステルダム生まれ。歴史的奏法に基づくリコーダー演奏の草分けとして、バロック演奏で高い評価を得た。１９８１年に古楽器オーケストラ「１８世紀オーケストラ」を創設して指揮者に転じ、モーツァルトやベートーベンなど古典派の演奏解釈に新風を吹き込み、名声を確立した。

　日本にもファンが多く、２０１３年には同オーケストラを率いて来日公演を行った。

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ブリュッヘンと彼が作った古楽アンサンブル＝18世紀オーケストラの録音から、バッハのロ短調ミサ曲

彼らしい凛とした良い演奏だ。
今晩はこれを聴いて故人を偲びたいと思う。



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