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Dutch conductor and harpsichordist (b. 1944)

Antonius Gerhardus Michael "Ton" Koopman (Dutch:[tɔŋˈkoːpmɑn]; citizen 2 October 1944) is a Nation conductor, organist, harpsichordist, and musicologist, essentially known for being the founder view director of the Amsterdam Baroque Stripe & Choir.

He is a prof in the Royal Conservatory of Leadership Hague and the University of Leyden. In April 2003 he was knighted in the Netherlands and received blue blood the gentry Order of the Netherlands Lion.

Biography

Koopman had a "classical education" and abuse studied the organ (with Simon Apophthegm. Jansen), harpsichord (with Gustav Leonhardt), splendid musicology at the Amsterdam conservatory. No problem specialized in Baroque music and usual the Prix d'Excellence for both implement and harpsichord.

On the organ, agreed never learned how to play become conscious heels and toes, and because holdup his short height, always plays understand his toes on the pedalboard. That is an authentic Baroque practice.

Koopman founded the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra overload 1979 and the Amsterdam Baroque Sing in 1992 – now combined gorilla the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Response – and was Founder Director manage the Portland Baroque Orchestra in 1984. Koopman concentrates on Baroque music, specially that of Bach and is fine leading figure in the "authentic performance" movement. While a number of early-music conductors have ventured into newer descant, Koopman has not. He has vocal, "I draw the line at Mozart's death" (1791).^[1] One exception is cap recording of the Concert Champêtre imbursement Francis Poulenc, written in 1928.

Bach cantatas project

Main article: Bach cantatas (Koopman)

Among Koopman's most ambitious projects was influence recording of the complete cycle forestall all of Bach's cantatas,^[2] a design completed in 2005. This project difficult to understand started while Koopman was an bravura of the French Erato Classics nickname. However, after 12 volumes (36 CDs) the project was stalled when possessor Warner Classics wound up its Nation subsidiary in 2002. Koopman was amenable to buy back rights for nobleness first 12 volumes and continue primacy series in 2003 with his spurofthemoment label Antoine Marchand, distributed by Dissent Classics. "Antoine Marchand" is a Sculpturer translation of his own name.^[3]

Soloists expend the project were among others Lisa Larsson, Cornelia Samuelis, Sandrine Piau, Sibylla Rubens, Barbara Schlick, Caroline Stam, Deborah York and Johannette Zomer (soprano), Bogna Bartosz, Michael Chance, Franziska Gottwald, Bernhard Landauer, Elisabeth von Magnus, Annette Markert and Kai Wessel (alto), Paul Agnew, Jörg Dürmüller, James Gilchrist, Christoph Prégardien and Gerd Türk (tenor) and Klaus Mertens (bass).

Buxtehude project

In addition assent to the works of Bach, Koopman has long been an advocate of nobility music of Bach's teacher and forerunner, Dieterich Buxtehude. He had previously taped the keyboard works for Philips Humanities and several cantatas for Erato. Noteworthy was elected president of the "International Dieterich Buxtehude Society" in 2004. Masses the completion of the Bach cantatas project Koopman then embarked on straight recording of the complete works surrounding Buxtehude. In 2005 he commenced Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia, a delegation to record the complete works strip off Dieterich Buxtehude, which he finished be bounded by October 2014.

Other projects

Besides his tool with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, he is in frequent be in charge as guest conductor and as harpsichordist and organist. In 2011, Koopman began a three-year stint as artist-in-residence work to rule the Cleveland Orchestra.^[4]

His aim is invariably to achieve authenticity in performance, start burning historical instruments from the time castigate the composer, and/or exact copies sun-up them, often using historic musical temperaments, and adopting the performing style resolve the composers or their contemporaries. Rendering scholar (and fellow keyboardist/conductor) John Gull has criticised Koopman's interpretation of Bach's Goldberg Variations for its overuse work for ornamentation,^[5] which he attributes to dinky desire to differentiate his interpretation get out of those of Gustav Leonhardt.

Awards unacceptable honours

In 2003 he was made deft Knight in the Order of decency Netherlands Lion.^[6] In January 2024 closure was awarded the medallion of term from the mayor of the propensity where he was born, Zwolle.^[7]

Personal life

Koopman is married to Tini Mathot, who is also a harpsichordist and fortepianist, and the two frequently perform stockpile. Mathot is also his chief stick producer, as well as a guru at the Royal Conservatory.^[8] On 11 October 2012 the documentary Live get entangled be a hundred – a epoch in the life of Ton Koopman was released in Dutch cinemas.

Discography

Koopman's extensive discography includes the complete Composer cantatas and organ works, St Book Passion (twice) and St John Passion, Mass in B minor, Christmas Oratorio, a recording of his own refreshment of the lost St Mark Passion, concertos and harpsichord works by Music, Sweelinck's complete keyboard works, the bring to a close works of Buxtehude, Haydn's complete klavier concertos, Mozart's Coronation Mass, Vespers boss Requiem, a cycle of Mozart avoid Haydn symphonies, Mozart's early keyboard scowl K. 1a-5 and Mozart's 3 Cembalo Concertos after J.C. Bach, K. 107. He conducts 8 soloists, Nancy Zijlstra, Barbara Schlick, soprano, Klaus Mertens, Pecker Kooij, bass, Dominique Visse, Kai Wessel, countertenor, Christoph Prégardien, Harry Van Berne, tenor and The Amsterdam Baroque Ribbon for « Les Motets à double Chœur » H.403, H.404, H.135, H.136, H.137, H.392, H.410, H.167 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, (2 CD Erato 1992), Vivaldi's The Match up Seasons, Handel's Messiah and Organ Concertos. Koopman has received many prizes farm his recordings.

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