Nikolaus Harnoncourt or Johann Nicolaus Graf de la Fontaine und d´Harnoncourt-Unverzagt, (born December 6, 1929) in Berlin. He is an Austrian conductor, known for his authentic performances of music from the classical era and earlier. December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... (help· info), IPA: , is the capital city as well as a state of Germany, and also the countrys largest city. ... See Conductor for other possible uses of the word. ... The authentic performance movement is an effort on the part of musicians and scholars to perform works of classical music in ways similar to how they were performed when they were originally written. ... Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity which involves organized and audible sound, though definitions vary. ... The Classical period in Western music occurred from about 1730 and 1820, but there was considerable overlap at both ends with preceding and following periods, as is true for all musical eras. ...

Harnoncourt was born in Berlin, was brought up in Graz and studied music in Vienna. His mother Ladislaja Gräfin von Meran, Freiin von Brandhoven, was the granddaughter of the styrian Archduke Johann. His father Eberhard de la Fontaine Graf d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt studied Engineering, to work in Berlin. From his first marriage he had two children. Two years later after Nikolaus´s birth, his brother Philipp Harnoncourt was born. The family eventually moved to Graz, where the father got a post in the state-government (Landesregierung) of Styria. Nikolaus Harnoncourt founded Concentus Musicus Wien with his wife, Alice Hoffelner, in 1953 while playing cello with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. That group was dedicated to authentic performances on period instruments, and by the 1970s his work with it had made him quite well known. (help· info), IPA: , is the capital city as well as a state of Germany, and also the countrys largest city. ... The Graz Schlossberg Clock Tower Graz [graːts] (Slovenian: Gradec IPA: /gra. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Slovenian: Dunaj, Croatian and Serbian: Beč Romanian: Viena, Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya;) Vienna is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ... Styria (die Steiermark in German, Å tajerska in Slovenian) is a state or Land, located in the south east of Austria. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... A cello The cello (pronounced Chello) or cello, short for violoncello, is a stringed instrument and a member of the violin family. ... Categories: Musical group stubs | Austrian orchestras ... 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. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...

He subsequently performed with many other orchestras using modern instruments, but still with an eye on historical authenticity in terms of tempi, dynamics and so on. He also expanded his repertoire somewhat, continuing to play the baroque works which had made him famous, but also championing the Viennese operetta repertoire. In recent years, he has made a benchmark recording of the Beethoven symphonies, with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. The Boston Pops orchestra performing on the Charles River Esplanade in Boston, Massachusetts. ... In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for time) is the speed or pace of a given piece. ... In music, dynamics refers to the volume or loudness of the sound or note, in particular to the range from soft (quiet) to loud. ... Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music which were in widespread use between approximately 1600 to 1750 (see Dates of classical music eras for a discussion of the problems inherent in defining the beginning and end points). ... Operetta (literally, little opera) is a performance art-form similar to opera, though it generally deals with less serious topics. ... Ludwig van Beethoven by Carl Jäger (Date unknown). ...

In 1971, Harnoncourt started a joint project with the conductor Gustav Leonhardt to record all of Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas. The project was eventually completed in 1990, and (barring a couple of cantatas, nos. 51 and 199) was the first and only cantata cycle to utilise an all-male choir and soloist roster. In 2001 a critically acclaimed and Grammy Award winning recording of Bach's St. Matthew Passion conducted by Harnoncourt was released, which included the entire score of the piece in Bach's own hand on a CD-ROM. 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Gustav Leonhardt (born May 30, 1928) is a Dutch harpsichordist, organist and conductor. ... Johann Sebastian Bach (21 March 1685 O.S. – 28 July 1750 N.S.) was a German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together almost all of the strands of the baroque style and brought it to its ultimate maturity. ... Cantata (Italian for a song or story set to music), a vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement. ... This article is about the year. ... Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen (Praise God in All Lands), BWV 51, is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. ... Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut (My Heart Swims in Blood) is a cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards), presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music... Bachs St. ... The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...

• Note regarding personal names: Graf is a title, translated as Count, not a first or middle name. The female form is Gräfin.