A Baroque music specialist, period instrument pioneer and multi-faceted musician, Christopher Hogwood has died at the age of 73.
The founder of the period instrument orchestra The Academy of Ancient Music, Hogwood will be deeply missed.
Born in Nottingham, United Kingdom, Hogwood studied keyboard at Cambridge University with Gustav Leonhardt and Rafael Puyana. He pushed his harpsichord studies further with Zuzana Růžičková in Prague.
After founding the AAM in 1973, he directed the academy on six continents and recorded more than 200 CDs. His most iconic recordings include a 1980 version of Handel's Messiah with Emma Kirkby, which was named by BBC Music Magazine, per The Guardian, as one of the Top 50 recordings of all time.
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