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Frans Brüggen, Pioneer Of Period-Instrument Movement, Dead At 79

PEOPLE Posted: August 13, 2014 9:54 pm

The Baroque flute and recorder soloist of choice for many of the pathbreaking recordings by the likes of Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt, Brüggen went on to a busy career conducting both period and mainstream orchestras. In 1981, he founded the Netherlands-based Orchestra of the 18th Century, with which he did hundreds of concerts and dozens of recordings over the next three decades.

PEOPLE Published: 08.13.14

Read the story in BBC Music Magazine Published: 08.13.14

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