Anecdotes

Harpsichordist and conductor.

He was a pioneer in period-instrument performance and research into Baroque performance styles. He made hundreds of recordings that were among the defining discography of the historical-performance movement in the 1950s and '60s.

He began studying piano when he was age 6, and cello when he was age 10. His parents and siblings were chamber music players, and when he was a teenager his parents bought a harpsichord, which he made his specialty.