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John Eliot Gardiner

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Sir John Eliot Gardiner, CBE HonFBA (born 20 April 1943) is an English conductor, particularly known for his performances of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and of other baroque music. [1]

91 relations: Acis and Galatea (Handel), Alan Gardiner, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Bach Archive, Bach cantata, Baroque, Baroque music, Baton (conducting), BBC, Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Bremen, British Academy, Bryanston School, Camino de Santiago, CBC Radio Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Christmas Oratorio, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Classical period (music), Claudio Monteverdi, Cleveland Orchestra, Codex Calixtinus, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Deutsche Grammophon, Early music, English Baroque Soloists, English National Opera, Fellow of the British Academy, Fontmell Magna, Göttingen International Handel Festival, Günter Wand, George Frideric Handel, Grammy Award, Gramophone (magazine), H. Balfour Gardiner, Hector Berlioz, Herbert Blomstedt, Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck), Israel in Egypt, Johann Sebastian Bach, Kent Nagano, King's College Chapel, Cambridge, King's College London, King's College, Cambridge, Knight Bachelor, Legion of Honour, List of period instruments, London Symphony Orchestra, Ludwig van Beethoven, ..., Magnificat (Bach), Melville House Publishing, Messe solennelle (Berlioz), Monteverdi Choir, Nadia Boulanger, National Book Critics Circle Award, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, North Dorset, Opéra National de Lyon, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Order of the British Empire, Penguin Books, Philharmonia Orchestra, Philips Classics Records, Ralph Kohn, Richard Wagner, Rolf Gardiner, Romantic music, Royal Academy of Music, Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Royal Opera House, Scottish independence, Scottish independence referendum, 2014, Soli Deo Gloria (record label), Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven), The Guardian, The Magic Flute, Thurston Dart, University of Cambridge, University of Lyon, University of Pavia, University of St Andrews, Vespro della Beata Vergine, Victor de Sabata, Vienna Philharmonic, Westminster Cathedral, Wigmore Hall, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1990 New Year Honours. Expand index (41 more) »

Acis and Galatea (Handel)

Acis and Galatea (HWV 49) is a musical work by George Frideric Handel with an English text by John Gay.

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Alan Gardiner

Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner (29 March 1879, in Eltham – 19 December 1963, in Oxford) was an English Egyptologist, linguist, philologist, and independent scholar.

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Australian Chamber Orchestra

The Australian Chamber Orchestra was founded by cellist John Painter in 1975.

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Bach Archive

The Bach-Archiv Leipzig or Bach-Archiv is an institution for the documentation and research of the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Bach cantata

The cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach (German: Bachkantaten) consist of at least 209 surviving works.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a highly ornate and often extravagant style of architecture, art and music that flourished in Europe from the early 17th until the late 18th century.

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Baroque music

Baroque music is a style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750.

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Baton (conducting)

A baton is a stick that is used by conductors primarily to enlarge and enhance the manual and bodily movements associated with directing an ensemble of musicians.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Berlin Philharmonic

The Berlin Philharmonic (Berliner Philharmoniker) is a German orchestra based in Berlin.

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Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Bremen

The City Municipality of Bremen (Stadtgemeinde Bremen) is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany, which belongs to the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (also called just "Bremen" for short), a federal state of Germany.

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British Academy

The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.

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Bryanston School

Bryanston School is a co-educational independent school for both day and boarding pupils, located next to the village of Bryanston, and near the town of Blandford Forum, in Dorset in South West England.

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Camino de Santiago

The Camino de Santiago (Peregrinatio Compostellana, "Pilgrimage of Compostela"; O Camiño de Santiago), known in English as the Way of Saint James among other names, is a network of pilgrims' ways serving pilgrimage to the shrine of the apostle Saint James the Great in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition has it that the remains of the saint are buried.

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CBC Radio Orchestra

The CBC Radio Orchestra was a Canadian orchestra based in Vancouver, British Columbia, that was operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) was founded by Theodore Thomas in 1891.

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Christmas Oratorio

The Christmas Oratorio,, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season.

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Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (born on 2 July, baptized 4 July 1714As there is only a documentary record with Gluck's date of baptism, 4 July. According to his widow, he was born on 3 July, but nobody in the 18th century paid attention to the birthdate until Napoleon introduced it. A birth date was only known if the parents kept a diary. The authenticity of the 1785 document (published in the Allgemeinen Wiener Musik-Zeitung vom 6. April 1844) is disputed, by Robl. (Robl 2015, pp. 141–147).--> – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period.

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Classical period (music)

The Classical period was an era of classical music between roughly 1730 to 1820, associated with the style of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

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Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (15 May 1567 (baptized) – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, string player and choirmaster.

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Cleveland Orchestra

The Cleveland Orchestra, based in Cleveland, is one of the five American orchestras informally referred to as the "Big Five".

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Codex Calixtinus

The Codex Calixtinus (also Compostellus) is the main witness for the 12th-century Liber Sancti Jacobi, or the Book of Saint James.

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Dallas Symphony Orchestra

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO) is an American orchestra based in Dallas, Texas.

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Deutsche Grammophon

Deutsche Grammophon is a German classical music record label that was the precursor of corporation called PolyGram.

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Early music

Early music generally comprises Medieval music (500–1400) and Renaissance music (1400–1600), but can also include Baroque music (1600–1760).

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English Baroque Soloists

The English Baroque Soloists is a chamber orchestra playing on period instruments, formed in 1978 by English conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

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English National Opera

English National Opera (ENO) is an opera company based in London, resident at the London Coliseum in St. Martin's Lane.

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Fellow of the British Academy

Fellowship of the British Academy (FBA) is an award granted by the British Academy to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences.

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Fontmell Magna

Fontmell Magna is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England.

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Göttingen International Handel Festival

The Göttingen International Handel Festival (German, Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen) is a German festival of baroque music, based in Göttingen, Germany.

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Günter Wand

Günter Wand (January 7, 1912, in Elberfeld, Germany – February 14, 2002, in Ulmiz near Bern, Switzerland) was a German orchestra conductor and composer.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (born italic; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Gramophone (magazine)

Gramophone is a magazine published monthly in London devoted to classical music, particularly to reviews of recordings.

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H. Balfour Gardiner

Henry Balfour Gardiner (7 November 1877 – 28 June 1950) was a British musician, composer, and teacher.

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Hector Berlioz

Louis-Hector Berlioz; 11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique, Harold en Italie, Roméo et Juliette, Grande messe des morts (Requiem), L'Enfance du Christ, Benvenuto Cellini, La Damnation de Faust, and Les Troyens. Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works, and conducted several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 compositions for voice, accompanied by piano or orchestra. His influence was critical for the further development of Romanticism, especially in composers like Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, and Gustav Mahler.

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Herbert Blomstedt

Herbert Blomstedt (born July 11, 1927) is a conductor laureate of the San Francisco Symphony.

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Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck)

Iphigénie en Tauride (Iphigenia in Tauris) is a 1779 opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck in four acts.

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Israel in Egypt

Israel in Egypt (HWV 54) is a biblical oratorio by the composer George Frideric Handel.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.

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Kent Nagano

Kent George Nagano (born November 22, 1951) is an American conductor and opera administrator.

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King's College Chapel, Cambridge

King's College Chapel is the chapel at King's College in the University of Cambridge.

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King's College London

King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, and a founding constituent college of the federal University of London.

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King's College, Cambridge

King's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

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Knight Bachelor

The dignity of Knight Bachelor is the most basic and lowest rank of a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organised orders of chivalry; it is a part of the British honours system.

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Legion of Honour

The Legion of Honour, with its full name National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit for military and civil merits, established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte and retained by all the divergent governments and regimes later holding power in France, up to the present.

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List of period instruments

In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written.

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London Symphony Orchestra

The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), founded in 1904, is the oldest of London's symphony orchestras.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770Beethoven was baptised on 17 December. His date of birth was often given as 16 December and his family and associates celebrated his birthday on that date, and most scholars accept that he was born on 16 December; however there is no documentary record of his birth.26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Magnificat (Bach)

Johann Sebastian Bach's Magnificat is a musical setting of the biblical canticle Magnificat.

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Melville House Publishing

Melville House Publishing is an independent publisher of literary fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.

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Messe solennelle (Berlioz)

Messe solennelle is a setting of the Catholic Solemn Mass by the French composer Hector Berlioz.

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Monteverdi Choir

The Monteverdi Choir was founded in 1964 by Sir John Eliot Gardiner for a performance of the Monteverdi Vespers (1610) in King's College Chapel, Cambridge.

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Nadia Boulanger

Juliette Nadia Boulanger (16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher.

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National Book Critics Circle Award

The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".

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NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

The NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester (NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra) is a German radio orchestra based in Hamburg.

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North Dorset

North Dorset is a local government district in Dorset, England.

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Opéra National de Lyon

Opéra de Lyon, legally “Opéra National de Lyon” but marketed during the last decade under the shorter name, is an opera company in Lyon, France, based and performing mostly at the Opéra Nouvel, an 1831 theater that was modernized and architecturally transformed in 1993.

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Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, founded in 1989 by John Eliot Gardiner, performs Classical and Romantic music, using the principles and original instruments of historically informed performance.

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Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is the only federal decoration of Germany.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Philharmonia Orchestra

The Philharmonia Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London.

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Philips Classics Records

Philips Classics Records was started in the 1980s as the new classics record label for Philips Records.

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Ralph Kohn

Sir Ralph Kohn FRS FMedSci FBPhS (9 December 1927 – 11 November 2016) was a British medical scientist, recipient of the Queen's Award for Export Achievement for his work in the pharmaceutical industry.

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas").

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Rolf Gardiner

Henry Rolf Gardiner (5 November 1902 – 26 November 1971) was an English rural revivalist, helping to bring back folk dance styles including Morris dancing and sword dancing.

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Romantic music

Romantic music is a period of Western classical music that began in the late 18th or early 19th century.

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Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas Bochsa.

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Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize

The Royal Academy of Music Bach Prize is an award given by the Royal Academy of Music in London.

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest) is a symphony orchestra in the Netherlands, based at the Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw (concert hall).

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Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House (ROH) is an opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.

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Scottish independence

Scottish independence (Scots unthirldom; Neo-eisimeileachd na h-Alba) is a political aim of various political parties, advocacy groups, and individuals in Scotland (which is a country of the United Kingdom) for the country to become an independent sovereign state.

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Scottish independence referendum, 2014

A referendum on Scottish independence from the United Kingdom took place on Thursday 18 September 2014.

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Soli Deo Gloria (record label)

Soli Deo Gloria is a British record label which releases recordings of the Monteverdi Choir and other ensembles conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

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Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)

The Symphony No.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute (German), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder.

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Thurston Dart

Robert Thurston ("Bob") Dart (3 September 1921 – 6 March 1971), was an English musicologist, conductor and keyboard player.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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University of Lyon

The University of Lyon (Université de Lyon), located in Lyon and Saint-Étienne, France, is a center for higher education and research comprising 16 institutions of higher education.

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University of Pavia

The University of Pavia (Università degli Studi di Pavia, UNIPV or Università di Pavia; Ticinensis Universitas) is a university located in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy.

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University of St Andrews

The University of St Andrews (informally known as St Andrews University or simply St Andrews; abbreviated as St And, from the Latin Sancti Andreae, in post-nominals) is a British public research university in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Vespro della Beata Vergine

Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin; SV 206 and 206a) – more properly in Latin Vesperæ in Festis Beatæ Mariæ Virginis, or casually Vespers of 1610 – is a musical composition by Claudio Monteverdi.

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Victor de Sabata

Victor de Sabata (10 April 1892 – 11 December 1967) was an Italian conductor and composer.

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Vienna Philharmonic

The Vienna Philharmonic (VPO; Wiener Philharmoniker), founded in 1842, is an orchestra considered to be one of the finest in the world.

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Westminster Cathedral

Westminster Cathedral, or the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in London is the mother church of the Catholic Church in England and Wales.

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Wigmore Hall

The Wigmore Hall is a concert hall located at 36 Wigmore Street, London.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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1990 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1990 were appointments by most of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and honorary ones to citizens of other countries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eliot_Gardiner

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