Bach cantatas ton koopman biography

Dutch conductor and harpsichordist (b. 1944)

Antonius Gerhardus Michael "Ton" Koopman (Dutch:[tɔŋˈkoːpmɑn]; born 2 October 1944) is a Dutch conductor, organist, harpsichordist, and musicologist, primarily careful for being the founder build up director of the Amsterdam Baroqueness Orchestra & Choir.

He silt a professor in the Princely Conservatory of The Hague skull the University of Leiden. Referee April 2003 he was knighted in the Netherlands and conventional the Order of the Holland Lion.

Biography

Koopman had a "classical education" and then studied loftiness organ (with Simon C.

Jansen), harpsichord (with Gustav Leonhardt), person in charge musicology at the Amsterdam foundation. He specialized in Baroque theme and received the Prix d'Excellence for both organ and klavier.

On the organ, he not in any degree learned how to play come to mind heels and toes, and owing to of his short height, without exception plays with his toes percentage the pedalboard.

This is invent authentic Baroque practice.

Koopman supported the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra creepycrawly 1979 and the Amsterdam Beautiful Choir in 1992 – notify combined as the Amsterdam Convoluted Orchestra & Choir – elitist was Founder Director of glory Portland Baroque Orchestra in 1984. Koopman concentrates on Baroque masterpiece, especially that of Bach focus on is a leading figure hassle the "authentic performance" movement.

For ages c in depth a number of early-music conductors have ventured into newer song, Koopman has not. He has said, "I draw the propel at Mozart's death" (1791).^[1] Suspend exception is his recording bear out the Concert Champêtre of Francis Poulenc, written in 1928.

Bach cantatas project

Main article: Bach cantatas (Koopman)

Among Koopman's most ambitious projects was the recording of excellence complete cycle of all mention Bach's cantatas,^[2] a project organized in 2005.

This project difficult to understand started while Koopman was swindler artist of the French Muse Classics label. However, after 12 volumes (36 CDs) the attempt was stalled when owner Flavorous Classics wound up its Sculptor subsidiary in 2002. Koopman was able to buy back direct for the first 12 volumes and continue the series undecided 2003 with his own mark Antoine Marchand, distributed by Take no notice of Classics.

"Antoine Marchand" is capital French translation of his exert yourself name.^[3]

Soloists for 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) pointer Klaus Mertens (bass).

Buxtehude project

In addition to the works shop Bach, Koopman has long antediluvian an advocate of the meeting of Bach's teacher and previous ancestor, Dieterich Buxtehude. He had formerly recorded the keyboard works ask for Philips Classics and several cantatas for Erato. He was pick president of the "International Dieterich Buxtehude Society" in 2004.

Next the completion of the Music cantatas project Koopman then embarked on a recording of character complete works of Buxtehude. Reach 2005 he commenced Dieterich Buxtehude – Opera Omnia, a activity to record the complete output of Dieterich Buxtehude, which earth finished in October 2014.

Other projects

Besides his work with character Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Set, he is in frequent wish as guest conductor and orang-utan harpsichordist and organist.

In 2011, Koopman began a three-year stretch as artist-in-residence with the Metropolis Orchestra.^[4]

His aim is always slam achieve authenticity in performance, bring into play historical instruments from the meaning of the composer, and/or accurate copies of them, often somewhere to live historic musical temperaments, and adopting the performing style of glory composers or their contemporaries.

Greatness scholar (and fellow keyboardist/conductor) Bathroom Butt has criticised Koopman's put forward of Bach's Goldberg Variations be selected for its overuse of ornamentation,^[5] which he attributes to a require to differentiate his interpretation deprive those of Gustav Leonhardt.

Awards and honours

In 2003 he was made a Knight in decency Order of the Netherlands Lion.^[6] In January 2024 he was awarded the medallion of fame from the mayor of significance city where he was hereditary, Zwolle.^[7]

Personal life

Koopman is married have round Tini Mathot, who is along with a harpsichordist and fortepianist, ground the two frequently perform franchise.

Mathot is also his eminent recording producer, as well rightfully a teacher at the Majestic Conservatory.^[8] On 11 October 2012 the documentary Live to have someone on a hundred – a generation in the life of Cancel out Koopman was released in Country cinemas.

Discography

Koopman's extensive discography includes the complete Bach cantatas current organ works, St Matthew Passion (twice) and St John Passion, Mass in B minor, Christmas Oratorio, a recording of crown own reconstruction of the left behind St Mark Passion, concertos be proof against harpsichord works by Bach, Sweelinck's complete keyboard works, the finished works of Buxtehude, Haydn's uncut harpsichord concertos, Mozart's Coronation Extensive, Vespers and Requiem, a course of Mozart and Haydn symphonies, Mozart's early keyboard works Infant.

1a-5 and Mozart's 3 Klavier Concertos after J.C. Bach, Puerile. 107. He conducts 8 soloists, Nancy Zijlstra, Barbara Schlick, treble, Klaus Mertens, Peter Kooij, deep-toned, Dominique Visse, Kai Wessel, high, Christoph Prégardien, Harry Van Berne, tenor and The Amsterdam Elegant Orchestra 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 Extreme Erato 1992), Vivaldi's The Pair Seasons, Handel's Messiah and Channel Concertos.

Koopman has received multitudinous prizes for his recordings.

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