Archive
- General
- BHS and BCS view Christopher's instrument collection
- Asian ventures
- Update on the V&A
- Brit Awards
- Crisis at the V&A!
- Best wishes for coloratura Christmas
- Barockstar: George Frideric Handel
- The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia
- Mendelssohn Discoveries (and gastronomic re-discoveries) in Leipzig
- The Times Cheltenham Literary Festival
- Video Interview: Christopher on Mendelssohn
- Big Ben: not by Handel
- World Première
- Christopher (the Classicist) writes to The Times
- The Fitzwilliam Museum: as seen by Christopher Hogwood
- University of Cambridge - 800th birthday
- Speech to launch V&A’s new baroque exhibition.
- Cambridge University Honorary Doctorate - Orator's Speech
- Cambridge University Honorary Doctorate
- Christopher corrects The Times
- Christopher opposes Arts Council cuts
- Halle Handel Prize
- Hear Christopher on Radio 4
- Christopher's contribution to 'Fund og Forskning'
- Happy New Year!
- Inga Nielsen CD featuring Christopher
- Christopher becomes an Honorary Member of Charles Avison Society
- De Clavicordio V
- Preface to Hawkins' history of the AAM
- De Clavicordio VI
- Emma Kirkby finally created a 'Dame'!
- Caricatures by Ane Lysebo – November 2005
- Christopher receives honorary doctorate from Zürich University
- Composers
- Food Counter
- Interviews
- Reviews
Christopher corrects The Times
February 18, 2008
Alongside an article about Daniel Barenboim in The Times on 24 January was a photograph of Barenboim, apparently, at a "spinet". The keyboard in question was in fact a clavichord, as pointed out by Christopher in his letter of 28 January:
Sir, Once again a bicycle is misidentified as a motor car: the instrument that the nine-year old Barenboim is playing so tentatively is one of Mozart's clavichords (he owned several throughout his life) and not a "spinet" (an instrument he never possessed). The note that can be seen attached to the soundboard is from Mozart's widow, Constanze, telling us that "on this Clavier my late husband composed Die Zauberflöte, La Clemenza di Tito, the Requiem and a new Masonic Cantata in the space of five months".
Christopher Hogwood
Cambridge
Christopher is pictured here playing the above-mentioned clavichord in Mozart's 'Geburtshaus' for his Secret Mozart recording.
