22-1452: Moroney is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Davitt Moroney (born 1950), British musicologist and keyboardist Des Moroney (1935–2018), Canadian ice hockey player Jack Moroney (1917–1999), Australian cricketer James Moroney (born 1953), American rower Jim Moroney (baseball) (1883–1929), American baseball player Jim Moroney (public servant) (1898–1965), Australian public servant Joe Moroney (1890–1956), Australian rules footballer Ken Moroney (born 1945), Australian police commissioner Mary Agnes Moroney (1928–2003), American child who went missing in 1930 Megan Moroney (born 1997), American singer Mick Moroney (born 1950), Irish hurler Michael Moroney (horseman) New Zealand thoroughbred racehorse trainer Mike Moroney (1933–2015), Australian long jumper Nick Moroney (born 1972), Australian high jumper Robert Moroney (1885–1958), Australian cricketer Shane Moroney (born 1989), American soccer player Sue Moroney (born 1964), New Zealand politician Thomas Maroney (1895–1971), American racewalker Tommy Moroney (1923–1981), Irish soccer and rugby player See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Moroney Morony (disambiguation) Maroney (disambiguation) Moroni (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
44-499: A newly discovered autograph manuscript of harpsichord music by Henry Purcell . He has recorded Bach , Biber , Couperin , and others. He won the 2000 Gramophone Early Music award for his recording of the complete keyboard music of William Byrd (see also: My Ladye Nevells Booke and The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book ), published on Hyperion Records , which he performed on harpsichord, chamber organ , church organ , clavichord , and muselar . He has published critical editions of
66-556: A thesis on the music of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd , he returned to Paris and worked mainly as a freelance performer until returning to the United States to serve on the faculty at UC Berkeley in 2001. He has given the first modern performances of much repertoire; the Livre de tablature de Clavescin by Marc Roger Normand Couperin of Turin , whose works he identified in 1997, the complete organ works of Louis Couperin and
88-1161: A variety of solo, chamber, orchestral, operatic, and choral music from the Renaissance , Baroque and Classical periods. The many composers whose music he recorded as a harpsichordist, organist, clavichordist, fortepianist, chamber musician or conductor included Johann Sebastian Bach , Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , Wilhelm Friedemann Bach , Heinrich Biber , John Blow , Georg Böhm , William Byrd , André Campra , François Couperin , Louis Couperin , John Dowland , Jacques Duphly , Antoine Forqueray , Girolamo Frescobaldi , Johann Jakob Froberger , Orlando Gibbons , André Grétry , George Frideric Handel , Jacques-Martin Hotteterre , Jean-Baptiste Lully , Claudio Monteverdi , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Georg Muffat , Johann Pachelbel , Henry Purcell , Jean-Philippe Rameau , Christian Ritter , Johann Rosenmüller , Domenico Scarlatti , Agostino Steffani , Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck , Georg Philipp Telemann , Francisco Valls , Antonio Vivaldi , and Matthias Weckmann . Central to Leonhardt's career
110-426: Is already obvious ornamentation in the notation.... my immediate reaction is often that this performance's principal message is 'Not Leonhardt'." Similarly, he says that " Bob van Asperen takes [Leonhardt's] rhythmic subtlety to a new extreme and perhaps presents the most rhythmically nuanced account of the work [The Goldberg Variations], one that will be ideal to some and mannered to others." By contrast, Butt argues,
132-518: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Davitt Moroney Davitt Moroney (born 23 December 1950) is a British-born and educated musicologist , harpsichordist and organist . His parents were of Irish and Italian extraction – his father was an executive with the Anglo-Dutch Unilever conglomerate. From 1968 onward, he undertook his undergraduate and graduate studies in musicology at King's College London ,
154-511: Is not necessarily a simple, direct matter, but that some of his students consciously or unconsciously tried to play differently than he did. In comparing recordings of Bach's Goldberg Variations , Butt asserts that a "classic case" of the anxiety of influence is at work in the Goldberg recording by Ton Koopman , in which "what is immediately evident is the incessant ornamentation added to virtually every measure, often regardless of whether there
176-540: The Leonhardt Baroque Ensemble with the English countertenor Alfred Deller in a pioneering recording of two Bach cantatas . The ensemble included his wife Marie Leonhardt [ de ] , Eduard Melkus (violins), Alice Harnoncourt-Hoffelner (violin, viola), Nikolaus Harnoncourt (cello), and Michel Piguet (oboe). In 1971, Leonhardt and Harnoncourt undertook the project of recording
198-651: The Musica Antiqua Bruges . He was the only jury member who had participated in all sixteen juries from 1965 to 2010. Among the awards given to him were the Medal of Honour for the Arts and Sciences from the Netherlands, presented to him by Queen Beatrix in 2009, and the 1980 Erasmus Prize, which he shared with Nicolaus Harnoncourt; it honored their recording of the complete Bach cantatas. (Leonhardt donated
220-743: The Order of the Crown in Belgium. Leonhardt gave his last public performance on 12 December 2011 at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris. Thereafter, he announced his retirement due to illness and cancelled all of his 2012 engagements. He died of cancer in Amsterdam on Monday, 16 January 2012, aged 83. Two asteroids were named after him: 9903 Leonhardt and 12637 Gustavleonhardt . Leonhardt lived in
242-724: The complete Bach cantatas ; the two conductors divided up the cantatas and recorded their assigned cantatas with their own ensembles. The project, the first cycle on period instruments, ended up taking nineteen years, from 1971 to 1990. In addition, Leonhardt recorded Bach's St Matthew Passion , Mass in B minor , Magnificat , and the complete secular cantatas , as well as the harpsichord concertos , Brandenburg Concertos , and most of his chamber and keyboard music; he recorded Bach's Goldberg Variations (three times), Partitas (twice), The Art of Fugue (twice), The Well-Tempered Clavier , French Suites , English Suites (twice), Inventions and Sinfonias , and many other individual works for
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#1732783996968264-411: The surname Moroney . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moroney&oldid=1214307571 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
286-590: The 16th century on 17 July 2007 at the BBC Proms in London. Until 2001, he was also director of Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre , the French-Australian music publishing company which sold its LP business to Decca Classics in 1970. This article on a musicologist is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Gustav Leonhardt Gustav Maria Leonhardt (30 May 1928 – 16 January 2012)
308-1402: The enormous influence [Leonhardt] held over multiple generations of music making in the Baroque field"; in this discussion, Butt spoke of how much he learned from Leonhardt when preparing a chorus for him in the early 1990s. More generally, Leonhardt significantly influenced the technique and style of many harpsichordists through his teaching, editions, and recordings; his students and collaborators included harpsichordists and keyboard players such as Robert Hill , Bob van Asperen , John Butt , Lucy Carolan, Lisa Crawford, Alan Curtis , Menno van Delft, Richard Egarr , John Fesperman , John Gibbons, Pierre Hantaï , Frederick Renz , Elaine Thornburgh , Ketil Haugsand , Siebe Henstra , Philippe Herreweghe , Christopher Hogwood , Ton Koopman , Karyl Louwenaar, Charlotte Mattax, Davitt Moroney , Jacques Ogg , Martin Pearlman (music director of Boston Baroque ), Edward Parmentier, Christophe Rousset , Louise Spizizen , Andreas Staier , Skip Sempé , Domenico Morgante , Peter Waldner, Francesco Cera , Jeannette Sorrell (music director of Apollo's Fire , The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra), Colin Tilney , Glen Wilson , and Chris Mary Francine Whittle . Butt argues that Leonhardt's influence
330-605: The faculty of which was headed by Thurston Dart , a great influence on the world of early music . Moroney later pursued advanced harpsichord studies with Kenneth Gilbert and Gustav Leonhardt . Moroney also holds performance and teaching diplomas (1974) from the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music . After earning his PhD in musicology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980 with
352-569: The harpsichord, clavichord, or organ. To the surprise of some of his associates, Leonhardt accepted the role of Johann Sebastian Bach (played in a wig) in The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach , a 1968 film by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet . Between 1974 and 1990, Leonhardt served as editor of the primary scholarly collection of the works of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, which is noted as SwWV or L. The keyboardist, conductor and scholar John Butt said, "...there's absolutely no doubting
374-613: The money he received from the Erasmus Prize to Oudezijds 100, an ecumenical Christian charity operating "in the red-light district [of] Amsterdam" that "addresses the issues of drug-addicts, prostitutes, refugees, and the homeless."). Leonhardt was doctor honoris causa of the universities of Dallas, Amsterdam, Harvard, Metz and Padua. In 2007, he was made Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and in 2008, Commander of
396-420: The work of various baroque composers, including a keyboard edition (and his own recording) of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Art of Fugue that contains his own completion of the final unfinished fugue. He has also rediscovered the 40 and 60 part mass Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno by Alessandro Striggio , lost since the 17th century, of which he conducted what he believed to be the first performance since
418-518: The younger Christophe Rousset plays the Goldberg Variations in a "meat-and-potatoes" manner with "a steady rhythm, even articulation, and a matter-of-fact presentation with little extra ornamentation," demonstrating that "certainly Rousset does not seem to count among the 'radical reactivists' [to Leonhardt] such as Koopman and van Asperen." Leonhardt served as a member of the jury for the triennial International Harpsichord Concours of
440-516: Was Johann Sebastian Bach . Leonhardt first recorded music of the composer in the early 1950s, with recordings in 1953 of the Goldberg Variations and The Art of Fugue . The latter embodies the thesis he had published the previous year arguing that the work was intended for the keyboard, a conclusion now widely accepted. The recordings helped establish his reputation as a distinguished harpsichordist and Bach interpreter. In 1954 he led
462-438: Was a Dutch keyboardist, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor. He was a leading figure in the historically informed performance movement to perform music on period instruments . Leonhardt professionally played many instruments, including the harpsichord , pipe organ , claviorganum (a combination of harpsichord and organ), clavichord , fortepiano , and piano. He also conducted orchestras and choruses. Gustav Leonhardt
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#1732783996968484-755: Was born in 's-Graveland , near Hilversum , and studied organ and harpsichord from 1947 to 1950 with Eduard Müller at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel . In 1950, he made his debut as a harpsichordist in Vienna , where he studied musicology. He was professor of harpsichord at the Academy of Music from 1952 to 1955 and at the Amsterdam Conservatory from 1954. He was also a church organist. Leonhardt performed and conducted
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