Remembering Baroque Master Gustav Leonhardt

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For the Global Hit, we remember a pioneer of the baroque music revival. That is music from the early 17th to the mid-18th century. Gustav Leonhardt was a conductor, scholar and musical detective. He died this week at his home in Amsterdam. He was 83. Leonhardt revolutionized the field of baroque music. At a time when musicians and classical music lovers paid scant attention to the baroque repertoire, Leonhardt made it his mission to bring it to life. He recorded hundreds of albums as a conductor and as a harpsichordist, particularly the music of Jonathan Sebastian Bach.
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