Death of Alice Harnoncourt
On its Facebook page, the Concentus Musicus Wien ensemble announces the death of Alice Harnoncourt, who together with her husband Niklaus Harnoncourt shaped historically informed music-making, not least with productions at Zurich Opera House.
Alice Harnoncourt was born in Vienna in 1930 and studied piano and violin there.
In 1949 she founded the Vienna Viola da Gamba Quartet together with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Eduard Melkus and Alfred Altenburger, and in 1953 the Concentus Musicus Wien. She was concertmaster of this ensemble until 1981.
After Nikolaus Harnoncourt's death, Alice Harnoncourt took over the Concentus Musicus archives in 2016. She published books and previously unpublished texts, notes and memoirs. This year, she also produced a podcast with unpublished material for the radio station Ö1.
Link:
https://radiothek.orf.at/podcasts/oe1/harnoncourts-klang-reden
