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26-538: The three Austrian musicians and the French cellist Christophe Coin got to know each other in Vienna as members of Concentus Musicus working under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt . With their shared experiences as a starting point, they decided to form a classical string quartet playing on period instruments. The primary aim was not to create the sort of ‘authenticity’ that belongs in museums, but rather to ensure in their work

52-584: A brain tumour . Shortly before his death, he had separated from his civil partner , the film director Anthony Fabian . At the time of his death, Hogwood was Honorary Professor of Music in the University of Cambridge , Consultant Visiting Professor of historical performance in the Royal Academy of Music and visiting professor at King's College London . He was Honorary Fellow of both Jesus College, Cambridge and Pembroke College, Cambridge . In 1989 Hogwood

78-554: A 2012 concert in New York, their playing was reviewed as "balancing period instruments and historically informed performance practice with contemporary interpretive impulses like no other". Since 1991, Coin has been director of the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges , for performances of cantatas, oratorio and operas of the 17th and 18th century on period instruments. Since 1988, Coin has been a teacher for Baroque cello and viola da gamba at

104-598: A living link to the great European quartet tradition. Hence an essential inspiration for the group was the Végh Quartet , of which Erich Höbarth had been a member for its last three years. The Quatuor Mosaïques has received the Gramophone Award for its interpretations of Haydn. It has given concerts with pianists András Schiff and Patrick Cohen  [ fr ] , clarinettists Wolfgang and Sabine Meyer , and cellists Miklós Perényi and Raphaël Pidoux . In 2006

130-486: A particular affinity for the neobaroque and neoclassical schools including many works by Stravinsky , Martinů and Hindemith . He made many solo recordings of harpsichord works (including Louis Couperin , J. S. Bach , Thomas Arne , William Byrd 's My Lady Nevells Booke ), and did much to promote the clavichord in the Secret Bach/Handel/Mozart series of recordings, which puts in historical context

156-606: A year, under a British Council scholarship. In 1967, Hogwood co-founded the Early Music Consort with David Munrow. In 1973 he founded the Academy of Ancient Music , which specializes in performances of Baroque and Classical music using period instruments . The Early Music Consort was disbanded following Munrow's death in 1976, but Hogwood continued to perform and record with the Academy of Ancient Music. Since 1979, Hogwood and

182-890: The Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He has organised workshops on the building and playing of historic instruments. In 1991 he played as part of the sound-track to the French film Tous les Matins du Monde . Coin has recorded some 50 CDs , both as a soloist and with ensembles. Several of them were awarded prizes. He recorded Purcell's trio sonatas and Haydn's cello concertos with Christopher Hogwood . The Quatuor Mosaïques recorded Luigi Boccherini 's quintets with Patrick Cohen playing pianoforte . Beginning in 1993, Coin conducted and played Bach's ten cantatas with violoncello piccolo within three years at

208-646: The Royal Opera House at Covent Garden , Chorégies d'Orange and Houston Grand Opera . With Opera Australia , he performed Mozart operas, Idomeneo in 1994 and La Clemenza di Tito in 1997. In 2009, he returned to the Royal Opera House to conduct the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas , and Handel's Acis and Galatea . 2009 also saw him conducting Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at

234-605: The Schola Cantorum Basiliensis . He worked first mainly as a soloist. In 1984, he founded the Mosaïques Ensemble and in 1987 the string quartet Quatuor Mosaïques with Erich Höbarth, Andrea Bischof and Anita Mitterer, all players members of the Concentus Musicus Wien . The quartet has performed mostly works of the classical period on period instruments, with a focus on less known works. After

260-614: The Teatro Real in Madrid, in a production directed by Robert Lepage . In late 2010 and early 2011, he conducted a series of performances of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Zürich Opera House . On 1 September 2006, harpsichordist Richard Egarr succeeded Hogwood as Music Director of the Academy of Ancient Music and Hogwood assumed the title of Emeritus Director. Hogwood said he expected to conduct 'at least one major project' with

286-757: The United States . He was Artistic Director of Boston's Handel and Haydn Society from 1986 to 2001, and for the remainder of his life held the title of Conductor Laureate. From 1983 to 1985 he was artistic director of the Mostly Mozart Festival in the Barbican Centre in London. From 1988 to 1992, he was musical director of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minnesota . In 1994 he conducted

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312-760: The early music ensemble the Academy of Ancient Music , he was an authority on historically informed performance and a leading figure in the early music revival of the late 20th century. Born in Nottingham , Hogwood went to The Skinners' School , Royal Tunbridge Wells , and then studied Music and Classics at Pembroke College, Cambridge , graduating in 1964. Contemporaries at Cambridge included David Munrow and John Turner . He went on to study performance and conducting under Raymond Leppard , Mary Potts and Thurston Dart , and later with Rafael Puyana and Gustav Leonhardt . He also studied in Prague with Zuzana Ruzickova for

338-576: The Academy each year. He conducted them in a series of concert performances of Handel operas which began in 2007 with Amadigi . 2008 saw performances of Flavio , and the series concluded in May 2009, the Handel anniversary, with Arianna in Creta . In 2013 he conducted Imeneo . Although Hogwood was best known for the baroque and classical repertoire, he also performed romantic and contemporary music , with

364-505: The Academy recorded the first cycle of Mozart's symphonies to be performed on period instruments, with Hogwood in the role of continuist . In 1985, Hogwood's recording of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons on L'Oiseau-Lyre , which rubbed shoulders in the pop charts with Prince 's Purple Rain ; the latter was named best film soundtrack at the Brit awards , while Hogwood's disc was best classical recording. From 1981, Hogwood conducted regularly in

390-565: The Handel and Haydn Society in a recreation of the concert that premiered Beethoven's Sixth and Fifth symphonies for the Historic Keyboard Society of Milwaukee. Hogwood conducted a considerable amount of opera. He made his operatic debut in 1983, conducting Mozart's Don Giovanni in St. Louis, Missouri . He worked with Berlin State Opera ; La Scala , Milan; Royal Swedish Opera ;

416-572: The Quatuor was invited to Spain to play the quartet of Stradivari instruments belonging to the Spanish Crown . It presented a programme of quartets by Arriaga at the Royal Palace in Madrid, which was subsequently recorded on CD. The Quatuor Mosaïques' very extensive repertoire includes rarely performed works by Pleyel, Tomasini, Werner, Jadin, Gross, Boëly, Schumann and Brahms. It has performed works of

442-593: The church of Ponitz , Thuringia, using its 1737 Gottfried Silbermann organ. Some cantatas feature the Leipziger Concerto Vocale, some the Chœur de Chambre Accentus, all the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges and soloists Barbara Schlick , Andreas Scholl , Christoph Prégardien and Gotthold Schwarz , including Jesu, nun sei gepreiset , BWV 41 for New Year's Day . A review notes: "As the piccolo cello soloist

468-566: The early twentieth century, by composers such as Debussy, Bartók and Webern. The group's first recordings were on the Astree label of Michel Bernstein . The Quatuor's discography includes works by Arriaga, Beethoven, Boccherini, Boëly, Haydn, H. Jadin, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Schubert. Christophe Coin Christophe Coin ( French: [kwɛ̃] ; born 26 January 1958) is a French cellist , viola da gamba player and conductor active in

494-626: The field of historically informed performance . He is the cellist of the Quatuor Mosaïques and is the director of the Ensemble Baroque de Limoges. Born in Caen , Coin studied with Jacques Ripoche. At the Conservatoire de Paris , he studied cello with André Navarra and graduated in 1974. From 1976, he studied on a scholarship in Vienna. He was influenced by Nikolaus Harnoncourt , among others. From 1978, he studied viola da gamba with Jordi Savall at

520-508: The most common domestic instrument of that epoch. He owned a collection of historical keyboard instruments. In July 2010, he was appointed Professor of Music at Gresham College , London, a position originally held by John Bull . In this role he delivered four series of free public lectures on Aspects of Authenticity (2010–11), The Making of a Masterpiece (2011–12), European Capitals of Music (2012–13) and Music in Context (2013–14). He

546-399: The re-issue on Oxford University Press reissue in 1980. He was the chairman of the new edition Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works , which aimed to publish a complete edition of C.P.E. Bach's music in 2014. He was involved with The Wranitzky Project, dedicated to the study and publishing of the music of Moravian composer Paul Wranitzky (1756–1808). His last editing project

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572-485: The supremely talented Christophe Coin plays with authority displaying exceptional control of phrasing and dynamics". In 2004, he recorded with the Quatuor Mosaiques Haydn 's six string quartets Op. 64. Christopher Hogwood Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood CBE (10 September 1941 – 24 September 2014) was an English conductor, harpsichordist , writer, and musicologist. Founder of

598-599: The world. In 2012 he was appointed Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University, for a six-year term of office. He was a member of Lowell House Senior Common Room in Harvard University . Hogwood's editing work included music by composers as diverse as John Dowland and Felix Mendelssohn . After John Walsh's collection The Harpsichord Master Book I was rediscovered in New Zealand in 1977 (containing two otherwise new/unknown works by Purcell), Hogwood edited

624-648: Was a complete critical edition of piano sonatas by the Czech composer Leopold Koželuh . In 2012 Hogwood's musicological activities came to the attention of a wider public when the BBC and the Guardian newspaper announced his discovery of a "previously unknown" piano piece by Johannes Brahms . However, it emerged that the work in question, Albumblatt , was already known. The manuscript had been sold at public auction in April 2011, where it

650-718: Was described as "unpublished" and "of great importance," and the manuscript was reproduced in full in the catalogue. The work had been given its premiere by Craig Sheppard on 28 April 2011. Sheppard reportedly described the newspaper claim as "fatuous". Hogwood's edition of the piece was published by Bärenreiter in February 2012 along with the Horn Trio in E-flat major, Op. 40 , which is thematically related. Hogwood died in Cambridge on 24 September 2014, fourteen days after his 73rd birthday, from

676-598: Was unable to deliver all of his lectures during his final year of appointment due to illness and it was only seven months after his final lecture at the College that he died. In 2011 Hogwood was a juror for the Westfield International Fortepiano Competition hosted at Cornell University . This was the first fortepiano competition in the United States and only the second competition of its kind in

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