CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD

Conductor, Musicologist, Keyboard player

Publications


Books, essays and articles


2010
'Most delectable and elegant musick'
in The Crown Jewels
Eds Sarah Kilby and Clare Murphy

Historic Royal Palaces

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2009
Preface and 'Music for the Royal Fireworks'
in The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia
Eds Annette Landgraf and David Vickers

Cambridge University Press

"An absolute must for all lovers of Handel's music" - Nicholas McGegan

"A well-researched, elegantly written, often times witty, cornucopia of Handelian lore and miscellany" - William Christie

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2009
'Handel "improv'd": keyboard suites and fugues "mises dans une autre applicature" by Gottlieb Muffat'
in "True to Life" - Händel, der Klassiker
eds Dr Ute Jung-Kaiser and Dr Matthias Kruse

OLMS

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2009
'"Gropers into Antique Musick" or "A very ancient and respectable Society"? Historical views of the Academy of Ancient Music'
in Coll'astuzia, Col giudizio: Essays in Honor of Neal Zaslaw
ed Cliff Eisen

Steglein

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2009
Preface
Performance Practice: Issues and Approaches
ed Timothy D. Watkins

Steglein

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2009
Händel
Polish translation by Barbara Swiderska

Astraia

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2009
Haydn's Visits to England

Republished by Thames & Hudson

"A brisk and breezy roundup of contemporary source material" - Financial Times

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2008
Foreword
Mendelssohn in Performance
ed Siegwart Reichwald

Indiana University Press

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2008
Music in Eighteenth-Century England: Essays in Memory of Charles Cudworth
Editor with Richard Luckett, and author of 'Thomas Tudway's History of Music', pp.19-47

Paperback re-issue
Cambridge University Press

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2008
'The Clavier Speaks'
The Century of Bach & Mozart: Perspectives on Historiography, Composition, Theory & Performance. In honour of Christoph Wolff.

ed. Sean Gallagher & Thomas Forrest Kelly

Harvard University Press

"A fitting conclusion for this honorary collection of essays" - Quarterly Journal of The Music Library Association

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2007
'The Copenhagen Connection: Resources for clavichord players in 18th-century Denmark'
Fund og Forskning, Vol. 46/2007

The Royal Library, Copenhagen

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2007
Handel
(revised)

Thames & Hudson

'A thorough and excellent guide to the life and works of the great man' - The Sunday Times

'A clear, authoritative and striking portrait of Handel, with a large number of handsome illustrations' - The Times Higher Education Supplement

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2006
'Introduction'
Proceedings of the Nordic Music Editions Symposium, Copenhagen 1-2 September 2005, ed. Niels Krabbe

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2006
'Burney, Bach and the Bachists'
CPE Bach Studies, ed. Annette Richards

Cambridge University Press

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2006
'John Dowland Keyboard Music'
De Clavicordio VII

Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano 2005, ed. Bernard Brauchli, Albert Galazzo & Judith Wardman
Musica Antica a Magnano

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2006
'Thoughts on recording the Mozart symphonies'
Acta Mozartiana, Volume 53 (June 2006)

Deutsche Mozart-Gesellschaft

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2006
'Mozart and the "clavichord environment"'
Mozart-Jahrbuch 2005

Bärenreiter

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2005
Handel Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks
Cambridge Music Handbooks

Cambridge University Press

"The best of the volumes in this series...Every paragraph offers some sort of insight or curiosity" - Early Music Review

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2004
'The Clavichord and its repertoire in France and England before 1700 - a summary and a new manuscript source'
De Clavicordio VI

Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano 2003, ed. Bernard Brauchli, Albert Galazzo & Ivan Moody

Musica Antica a Magnano

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2004
'The clavichord in Britain and France: a selection of documentary references before 1700'
De Clavicordio VI

Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano 2003, ed. Bernard Brauchli, Albert Galazzo & Ivan Moody

Musica Antica a Magnano

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2004
Handel The Musick for the Royal Fireworks
Facsimile, with extended introduction and commentary

Bärenreiter

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2003
'Knives at the Opera'
The Guardian

15 November 2003

The Guardian

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2003
'My First Opera'
Opera

November 2003

Opera

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2003
'Music That Changed Me'
BBC Classical Music Magazine

December 2003

BBC Classical Music Magazine

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2003
'Creating the corpus: the "complete keyboard music" of Henry Purcell'
in The Keyboard in Baroque Europe ed. Christopher Hogwood

Cambridge University Press

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2003
La sonata a tre (BBC Music Guide)
(Italian translation)

Rugginenti

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2003
The Keyboard in Baroque Europe
Editor, and author of 'Creating the corpus: the "complete keyboard music" of Henry Purcell', pp.67-89

Cambridge University Press

"An illuminating and well-balanced compendium on a variety of early keyboard topics" - Early Keyboard Journal

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2002
'In defence of the Minuet and Trio'
in Early Music, Vol.30 No.2 May 2002

Early Music

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2002
'Introduction'
A Performer's Guide to Music of the Baroque Period ed. Anthony Burton

The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music

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2002
'The Copenhagen Connection: resources for clavichord players in eighteenth-century Denmark'
De Clavicordio V

Proceedings of the V International Clavichord Symposium,
Magnano, - September 2001,
ed. Bernard Brauchli, Albert Galazzo & Ivan Moody

Musica Antica a Magnano

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2000
'"Our old great favourite" Burney, Bach and the Bachists'
De Clavicordio IV

Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium,
Magnano, 8-11 September 1999,
ed. Bernard Brauchli, Susan Brauchli & Albert Galazzo

Musica Antica a Magnano

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1999
'Ein Plädoyer für Menuett und Trio'
Die Gegenwart der musikalischen Vergangenheit, ed. by Christoph Wolff

Residenz Verlag

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1998
Introduction to An account of the institution and progress of the Academy of Ancient Music
by Sir John Hawkins (1770, facsimile)

The Academy of Ancient Music

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1998
BBC Music Guide: The Trio Sonata
(Chinese translation)

Mercury Publishing House

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1997
'The inconstant and original Johann Wilhelm Hässler - his 1786 autobiography and a thematic catalogue of his keyboard works to 1790'
De Clavicordio III

Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano, 24-28 September 1997, ed. Bernard Brauchli, Susan Brauchli & Albert Galazzo
Musica Antica a Magnano

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1996
'In praise of arrangements: the "Symphony Quintetto"'
Studies in Music History

presented to H. C. Robbins Landon on his seventieth birthday, ed. Otto Biba & David Wyn Jones

Thames and Hudson

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1995
'A repertoire for the clavichord'
De Clavicordio II

Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano, 21-23 September 1995, ed. Bernard Brauchli, Susan Brauchli & Albert Galazzo

Musica Antica a Magnano

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1995
'A new English keyboard manuscript of the seventeenth century: autograph music by Draghi and Purcell'
The British Library Journal, Vol.21 No.2 autumn 1995

British Library

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1995
Introduction to Messiah: A facsimile of the 1743 wordbook

Handel & Haydn Society, Boston

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1994
'A case for the clavichord'
De Clavicordio

Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano 1993, ed. Bernard Brauchli, Susan Brauchli & Albert Galazzo
Istituto per i Beni Musicali in Piemonte

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1993
'Robert Carver'
Dictionary of National Biography

Supplementary Volume

Oxford University Press

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1993
'Michael Cavendish'
Dictionary of National Biography

Supplementary Volume

Oxford University Press

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1992
Introduction to Messiah: The Wordbook for the Oratorio
Illustrations by Barry Moser

HarperCollins

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1992
Handel
(German translation)

Metzler

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1991
Georg Friedrich Händel
(Italian translation)

Edizioni Studio Tesi

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1991
Edward Holmes's Life of Mozart
Introduction and notes

Folio Society

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1991
Handel
(Japanese translation)

Tokyo Shoseki

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1990
'Foreword'
Companion to Baroque Music, ed. J. A. Sadie

J. M. Dent Sons

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1989
'The Bohemian Lands'
in The Classical Era, ed. Neal Zaslaw

Written with Jan Smaczny
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall

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1989
Music at Court
(Japanese translation)

Ongaku no Tomo

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1988
'A supplement to C. P. E. Bach's Versuch: E. W. Wolf's Anleitung of 1785'
in C. P. E. Bach Studies, ed. Stephen L. Clark

Clarendon Press

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1988
Haendel
(Spanish translation)

Alianza Editorial

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1987
'Foreword'
Beethoven Remembered: The Biographical Notes of Franz Wegeler and Ferdinand Ries

Trans. F. Noonan
Great Ocean, Deutsch

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1987
La Sonate en Trio
(French Translation)

Actes Sud

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1985
'General introduction to the London pleasure gardens'
Music for London Entertainment, Series F

Richard MacNutt

Stainer & Bell

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1985
'Introduction to Arne's Lyric Harmony'
Music for London Entertainment, Series F

Richard MacNutt

Stainer & Bell

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1984
Handel

Thames & Hudson

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1983
'Thomas Tudway's History of Music'
Music in Eighteenth-Century England
Eds Christopher Hogwood and Richard Luckett

Issued in paperback 2008
Cambridge University Press

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1980
Haydn's Visits to England

Re-published with revisions by Thames & Hudson in 2009
Folio Society

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1979
The Trio Sonata

BBC Publications

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1977
Music at Court

Folio Society (Re-published 1980, Gollancz)

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1976
'Frescobaldi on performance'
Italian Music and the Fitzwilliam

Fitzwilliam Museum

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In press


'"Like bold Briareus with his hundred hands": Handel's use of timpani and percussion'
Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte - Percussion

Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein-Musikinstitut für Aufführungspraxis

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'Musical Identity'
in Identity [Darwin College Lectures Series],
eds Dr Elisabeth Leedham-Green and Dr Giselle Walker

Cambridge University Press

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In prep


The Classical Clavichord

Cambridge University Press

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