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Early music loomed large in the career of the cellist and maestro Nikolaus Harnoncourt, but to call him a specialist (as many did) was wide of the mark.

In truth, he was a generalist who approached every piece of music as brand-new.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Conductor, Cello, Viol) - Short Biography

While other scholars of his vintage fetishized antique sound for its own sake, Harnoncourt wanted to know how the characteristics of an instrument--its distinctive timbre, the materials it was made of, its mechanics--might illuminate the deepest meanings of a specific piece of music.

His interpretive choices often caught me off-guard, which bothered me for a while. But then it