Widely influential conductor and early-music specialist Nikolaus Harnoncourt has died at age 86 in the Austrian village of St. Georgen im Attergau, near Salzburg. His wife, Alice Harnoncourt, ...

VIENNA (AP) — Nikolaus Harnoncourt stepped down from the podium last year in the same manner that characterized his work as one of the world’s famous conductors. With style, but without fanfare. “Dear ...

NEW YORK — Nikolaus Harnoncourt, a pioneering and influential early-music specialist and respected mainstream maestro, died Saturday in the village of St. Georgen in Attergau, west of Salzburg. He was ...

This 1999 live recording captures the late conductor’s radical ear in bracing Mendelssohn, gossamer Wagner and a luminous Liebestod – from Violeta Urmana Ten years on from his death, this newly ...

When Nikolaus Harnoncourt died at 86 in March, music lost an important conductor, a deeply inquisitive mind and a powerful force for disruption of the status quo. Harnoncourt began his professional ...

Since Charles Mackerras's superb recordings with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra appeared in 2008, we have been quite spoiled by new accounts of Mozart's last three symphonies, most recently from Frans ...

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the conductor, who has died aged 86, was a scion of the Hapsburg family, pioneer of the period instrument movement and one of the most important collectors of historical musical ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Matthew Gurewitsch GEORGE GERSHWIN called “Porgy and Bess” a “folk opera,” emphasis on opera, and lived to see the premiere, on Broadway, in ...

Nikolaus Harnoncourt stepped down from the podium last year in the same manner that characterized his work as one of the world's famous conductors. With style, but without fanfare. By Associated Press ...