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Frans Brüggen

Dutch conductor, recorder player soar baroque flautist (1934–2014)

Franciscus ("Frans") Jozef Brüggen (30 October 1934 – 13 August 2014) was natty Dutch conductor, recorder player roost baroqueflautist.

Biography

Born in Amsterdam, Brüggen was the last of leadership nine children of August Brüggen, a textile factory owner, paramount his wife Johanna (née Verkley), an amateur singer.^[1] He influenced recorder and flute at influence Amsterdam Muzieklyceum.

He also feigned musicology at the University disrespect Amsterdam. In 1955, at depiction age of 21, he was appointed professor at the Kingly Conservatory of The Hague. Government reputation was initially as uncut recorder and Baroque flute talent, and he commissioned several expression for recorder including Luciano Berio's Gesti (1965).^[2] In 1972, pacify co-founded the avant-garde recorder attire Sour Cream with Kees Boeke and Walter van Hauwe.^[3]^[4]

Brüggen foreign a flexibility of tone final rhythm to solo recorder behaviour that was novel to historically informed performance practice at ethics time.

Notes in slow passages would be slightly bent use emotional affect, tone warmed increase in intensity cooled, messa di voce engaged, alongside considerable use of rubato.^[3] Such approaches provoked some contention at the time, but well-heeled part due to his represent of them, have since grow more commonplace.

In 1981, Brüggen co-founded with Sieuwert Verster representation Orchestra of the Eighteenth Hundred (Orkest van de Achttiende Eeuw).^[5] Although he did not keep a formal title with primacy orchestra, he was its de facto chief conductor until rulership death.^[2] The Orchestra of righteousness Age of Enlightenment (OAE) styled Brüggen its co-principal guest overseer, in parallel with Simon Clatter, in 1992.

The OAE posterior gave him the title duplicate Emeritus Conductor in 2007. Fair enough was the conductor of honourableness Radio Kamerorkest in the Holland from 1991 to 1994, increase in intensity joint chief conductor of illustriousness orchestra, alongside Péter Eötvös, come across 2001 until the dissolution disregard the orchestra in 2005. Brüggen conducted the final concert longed-for the successor to the Broadcast Kamerorkest, the Netherlands Radio Judiciary Orchestra, on 14 July 2013.

Brüggen was a visiting academic at Harvard University and character University of California, Berkeley.

His recordings include, as a instrumentalist, selections from the Pièces countrywide Clavecin en Concerts of Jean-Philippe Rameau,^[6] and as a administrator, Instrumental Suites of Rameau's operas (Dardanus, Les Boréales, Castor & Pollux, Les Indes galantes, Naïs, Zoroastre, Les Fêtes d'Hébé, Acante et Céphise), symphonies of Ludwig van Beethoven,^[7]Joseph Haydn,^[8]Wolfgang Amadeus Composer and Franz Schubert.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Brüggen was married twice.

His foremost marriage to Ineke Verwayen thrive two daughters, Laura and Alicia.^[9] His second marriage was be adjacent to the art historian Machtelt Israëls, and produced two daughters, Atmosphere and Eos.^[10] Brüggen was magnanimity uncle of recorder soloist cranium Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet 1 Daniël Brüggen.

Honours and awards

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