Death of Marie Leonhardt
The violinist Marie Leonhardt, a student of Walter Kägi at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and Max Rostal, who together with her husband Gustav Leonhardt gave important impulses to the early music movement, has died at the age of 93.
Born in Lausanne in 1928, Marie Leonhardt taught at the Rotterdam Conservatory from 1968. She also taught early music in a string class at the Geneva Conservatory. She was concertmaster in the Leonhardt Consort under the direction of her husband Gustav Leonhardt and in Ton Koopman's Ensemble Musica Antiqua Amsterdam.
In Portugal, she ran the Casa de Mateus Summer Academy from 1980 and was artistic director of the Vila Real Festival. Her students include Lucy van Dael, Alda Stuurop and Reinhard Goebel.
