Davitt Moroney
Davitt Moroney (born December 23, 1950 ) is a British harpsichordist , organist and music historian.
Live and act
Davitt Moroney studied musicology at King's College London , including Thurston Dart . Then he studied the organ and harpsichord with Susi Jeans , Kenneth Gilbert and Gustav Leonhardt . He received his diplomas from the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music in 1974 . In 1980 he received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley with a thesis on the music of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd . He settled in Paris as a freelance musician before accepting a professorship at the University of California in 2001.
Moroney played numerous modern premieres of forgotten works, such as the " Livre de tablature de Clavescin " by Marc Roger Normand (a cousin François Couperin ), 58 forgotten organ works by Louis Couperin discovered from the 1957 "Oldham manuscript" and harpsichord works by Henry Purcell , also from a recently discovered manuscript.
Recordings and publications
In addition to more than 50 recordings by Johann Sebastian Bach , Heinrich Biber , Louis Couperin and others, he received the Gramophone Early Music Award in 2000 for the complete recording of the work for keyboard instruments by William Byrd.
As a music editor, he published numerous critical editions of baroque works, such as The Art of the Fugue by Bach or the 40-part " Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno " by Alessandro Striggio , which he rediscovered and which was performed in 2007 on the occasion of the BBC Proms.
Web links
- CV, publications and discography on the University of California website (English)
- Davitt Moroney at Discogs (English)
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| SURNAME | Moroney, Davitt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British harpsichordist and musicologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 23, 1950 |