Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood CBE (born 10 September 1941) is an English conductor, harpsichordist, writer and scholar of music. September 10 is the 253rd day of the Gregorian calendar (254th in leap years). ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem God Save the King (Queen) England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification  -  by Athelstan 967  Area... A conductor conducting a band at a ceremony A conductors score and batons Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ... Harpsichord in the Flemish style A harpsichord is any of a family of European keyboard instruments, including the large instrument currently called a harpsichord, but also the smaller virginals, the muselar virginals and the spinet. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ...

Hogwood was born in Nottingham, and studied music and classical literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He went on to study performance and conducting under Raymond Leppard and Thurston Dart; and later with Rafael Puyana and Gustav Leonhardt. A British Council scholarship enabled him to study in Prague for a year. Nottingham is a city (and county town of Nottinghamshire) in the East Midlands of England. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Full name Pembroke College Motto - Named after Countess of Pembroke, Mary de St Pol Previous names Marie Valence Hall (1347), Pembroke Hall (?), Pembroke College (1856) Established 1347 Sister College(s) Queens College Master Sir Richard Dearlove Location Trumpington Street Undergraduates ~420 Postgraduates ~240 Homepage Boatclub Pembroke College is a... The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and has a reputation as one of the worlds most prestigious universities. ... Raymond John Leppard (born August 1, 1927) is a well-known British conductor and harpsichordist. ... Thurston Dart (September 3, 1921 - March 6, 1971), was an eminent British musicologist, conductor and keyboard player. ... Rafael Puyana Michelsen (born 14 October 14, 1931 in Bogotà) is a Colombian harpsichordist. ... Gustav Leonhardt (born May 30, 1928) is a Dutch harpsichordist, organist and conductor. ... Logo of the British Council British Council building in London The British Council is a non-departmental public body and registered charity for cultural relations in the United Kingdom. ... Nickname: Motto: Praga Caput Rei publicae Location within the Czech Republic Coordinates: Country Czech Republic Region Capital City of Prague Founded 9th century Government  - Mayor Pavel Bém Area  - City 496 km²  (191. ...

In 1967 Hogwood founded the Early Music Consort with David Munrow, and in 1973 he founded the Academy of Ancient Music, specializing in performances of baroque and early classical music with period instruments. The Early Music Consort was disbanded following Munrow's suicide in 1976, but Hogwood continued to perform and record with the Academy of Ancient Music. 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... David Munrow (August 12, 1942 – May 15, 1976) was a musician and early music historian. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... The Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) is an orchestra dedicated to researching and performing the music of the past, often on authentic instruments of the time. ... Period instruments, or playing on period instruments refers to performance of classical music on the original instruments of Renaissance, Baroque or Classicism, or using the historical replicas of the original instruments preserved in the museums. ... Suicide (Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of intentionally taking ones own life. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...

Since 1981, Hogwood has conducted regularly in the United States. He served as Artistic Director of Boston's Handel and Haydn Society from 1986 to 2001, and has since held the title of Conductor Laureate. From 1983 to 1985 Hogwood was the artistic director of the Mostly Mozart Festival in the Barbican Centre in London. From 1987 to 1992 he was the musical director of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minnesota, which appointed him its principal guest conductor. 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The artistic director of a theatre is responsible for choosing the material staged in a season, and the hiring of creative/production personnel (such as directors), as well as other theatre management tasks. ... Nickname: Location in Massachusetts, USA Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Suffolk County Government  - Mayor Thomas M. Menino (D) Area  - City  89. ... The Handel and Haydn Society is a choral society in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Mostly Mozart Festival is a summer series of concerts held at Lincoln Center in New York City. ... Barbican Arts Centre and lakeside terrace Interior - concert hall foyer; library and gallery above Interior - concert hall with orchestra The Barbican Arts Centre opened in 1982, after a long and at times painful gestation which dated right back to the area having been badly bombed during World War II. Situated... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (SPCO), based in St. ... Capital Saint Paul Largest city Minneapolis Area  Ranked 12th  - Total 87,014 sq mi (225,365 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 400 miles (645 km)  - % water 8. ...

Hogwood has conducted much opera. He made his operatic debut in 1983, conducting Don Giovanni in St. Louis, Missouri. He has worked with Berlin State Opera; La Scala, Milan; Royal Opera Stockholm; the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, Chorégies d'Orange and Houston Grand Opera. With Opera Australia, he performed Idomeneo in 1994 and La Clemenza di Tito in 1997. The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Don Giovanni (K.527) is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 2003 Berlin State Opera (in German: Staatsoper Unter den Linden) is a prominent German opera company. ... The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, by night. ... The Royal Swedish Opera, as seen from the southwest The Opera, as seen from the west The Kungliga Operan or Royal Swedish Opera is the national stage for opera in Sweden. ... The Floral Hall of the Royal Opera House The Royal Opera House is a performing arts venue in London. ... Covent Garden is a district in central London and within the easterly bounds of the City of Westminster. ... The Houston Grand Opera (HGO) is a Houston, Texas-based opera company. ... Opera Australia is Australias major opera company, formed by the merger of the Australian Opera and the Victorian State Opera companies in 1996. ... Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante (Italian: Idomeneo, King of Crete, or, Ilia and Idamante; usually referred to simply as Idomeneo, K. 366) is an Italian opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... La clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus), K. 621, was an opera seria written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In September 1, 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 the Academy each year. He will conduct them in Handel operas in concert each year from 2007 leading up to the Handel anniversary in 2009, beginning with Amadigi. Richard Egarr is a British keyboard performer and conductor. ... The Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) is an orchestra dedicated to researching and performing the music of the past, often on authentic instruments of the time. ... Emeritus (IPA pronunciation: or ) is an adjective that is used in the title of a retired professor, bishop or other professional. ... The following is a list of compositions by George Frideric Handel. ... 2009 (MMIX) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Amadigi di Gaula. ...

Although Hogwood is best known for the baroque and early classical repertoire, he also performs contemporary music, with a particular affinity for the neo-baroque and neoclassical schools including many works by Stravinsky, Martinů and Hindemith. Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 and 1750 (see Dates of classical music eras for a discussion of the problems inherent in defining the beginning and end points). ... The Classical period in Western music occurred from about 1730 through 1820, despite considerable overlap at both ends with preceding and following periods, as is true for all musical eras. ... 20th century classical music, the classical music of the 20th century, was extremely diverse, beginning with the late Romantic style of Sergei Rachmaninoff, Impressionism of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, and continuing through the Neoclassicism of middle-period Igor Stravinsky, and ranging to such distant sound-worlds as the complete... The foyer of the Paris Opera, built by Charles Garnier Neo-baroque is a term used to describe artistic creations which display important aspects of Baroque style, but are not from the Baroque period proper. ... Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture. ... Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (Russian: Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский, Igor Fëdorovič Stravinskij) (June 17, 1882 – April 6, 1971) was a Russian composer, considered by many in both the West and his native land to be the most influential composer of 20th-century music. ... Portrait of Martinů Bohuslav Martinů ( ; December 8, 1890—August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer. ... Paul Hindemith aged 28. ...

His editing work includes music by composers as diverse as John Dowland and Felix Mendelssohn, and is currently the chairman of the new edition Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works, which is endeavoring to complete the publishing of a complete edition of C.P.E. Bach's music by 2014. Recently completed editions include Purcell's Ode on St Cecilia’s Day 1692 and Elgar's Enigma Variations. John Dowland (1563 – February 20, 1626) was an English composer, singer, and lutenist. ... Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born and known generally as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847) was a German composer and conductor of the early Romantic period. ... Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (March 8, 1714 – December 14, 1788) was a German musician and composer, the second of five sons of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. ... 2014 (MMXIV) will be a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Purcell is a family name in English. ... Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, Bt OM GCVO (June 2, 1857 – February 23, 1934) was a British composer, born in the small Worcestershire village of Broadheath to William Elgar, a piano tuner and music dealer, and his wife Ann. ... Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra, Op. ...

He has made numerous solo recordings on harpsichord (Louis Couperin, J. S. Bach, Thomas Arne, William Byrd's My Lady Nevells Booke) and done much to promote the clavichord in the Secret Bach/Handel/Mozart series of recordings, which puts in its rightful historical context the most common domestic instrument of that epoch. He owns an important collection of historical keyboard instruments. Louis Couperin was a French musician of the Baroque period. ... For other people named Bach and other meanings of the word, see Bach (disambiguation). ... Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-March 5, 1778) was an English composer, best known for the popular patriotic song, Rule Britannia, which is still frequently sung, notably at the Last Night of the Proms; and also his musical settings of songs from the plays of William Shakespeare. ... William Byrd William Byrd (c. ... My Ladye Nevells Booke is a compilation of the finest keyboard pieces by the English composer William Byrd, and, together with the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, one of the most important collections of keyboard music of the renaissance. ... Large five-octave unfretted clavichord by Paul Maurici, after J.A. Haas The clavichord is a European stringed keyboard instrument known from the late Medieval, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras. ...

Since 1992 Hogwood has been international professor of Early Music Performance at the Royal Academy of Music, and a visiting professor at King's College London. His academic positions also include Honorary Professor of Music at the University of Cambridge and Fellowships at Jesus and Pembroke Colleges, Cambridge. In addition, Hogwood serves as a member of Lowell House's Senior Common Room at Harvard University. In 1989 he was appointed a Commander of the British Empire. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) is a constituent college of the University of London, and is one of the leading music institutions in the world. ... Kings College London is the largest college of the University of London and one of a number of university institutions founded in England in the early 19th century: only the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge have royal charters predating that of Kings. ... The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and has a reputation as one of the worlds most prestigious universities. ... Full name The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge Motto Facias Prosperum Iter Named after Jesus Lane & Jesus Parish Previous names - Established 1496 Sister College(s) Jesus College, Oxford Master Prof. ... Full name Pembroke College Motto - Named after Countess of Pembroke, Mary de St Pol Previous names Marie Valence Hall (1347), Pembroke Hall (?), Pembroke College (1856) Established 1347 Sister College(s) Queens College Master Sir Richard Dearlove Location Trumpington Street Undergraduates ~420 Postgraduates ~240 Homepage Boatclub Pembroke College is a... The sky-blue bell tower of Lowell House Lowell House is one of the twelve undergraduate residential houses at Harvard University for sophomores, juniors, and seniors. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Commanders Badge of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V. The Order includes five classes in civil and military divisions, in order of seniority: Knight or Dame Grand Cross...

Books written by Christopher Hogwood

• Hogwood, Christopher (2005). Handel: Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks (Cambridge Music Handbooks). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521544863. 
• Hogwood, Christopher (1988). Handel. Thames & Hudson Ltd. ISBN 978-0500274989. 
• Hogwood, Christopher (1979). The Trio Sonata (Music Guides). BBC Books. ISBN 978-0563170952. 
• Hogwood, Christopher (1980). Music at Court. Gollancz. ISBN 978-0575028777. 

Trivia

• While at first you may think the following book is about Hogwood the conductor, it is, in fact, about a pig that shares his name: Montgomery, Sy (2006). The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood. Ballantine Books. ISBN 978-0345481375. 

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External link

• Christopher Hogwood's website