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Belgian choral and orchestral conductor Philippe Herreweghe (b. 1947) began his career conducting Baroque ensembles in the 1970s. A specialist in the music of the Grand Siècle, he extended his repertoire to include classical greats such as Mozart and Beethoven, and works by Romantic composers such as symphonies from Schumann to Mahler, right up to Anton Bruckner's Romantic Fourth Symphony. Founder of the Chapelle Royale in 1977, he has conducted several other ensembles (Ensemble vocal européen, Orchestre des Champs-Élysées) and recorded some sixty works for Harmonia Mundi, before founding his own PHI label in 2010
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The esteemed Belgian conductor, Philippe Herreweghe, studied piano with Marcel Gazelle at the Ghent Conservatory. He also pursued training in medicine and psychiatry at the University of Ghent, graduating in 1975. His musical training continued at the Ghent Conservatory with Gabriel Verschraegen (organ) and Johan Huys (harpsichord), where he took a prize in 1975.
In the same period Philippe Herreweghe started conducting and in 1970 (or 1969, according to Baker’s) he founded the Collegium Vocale Gent, which soon acquired distinction as one of Europe’s finest early music groups. Very soon, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt noticed his extraordinary musical approach, and invited him and the Collegium Vocale Gent to join them in their recordings of the complete J.S. Bach's cantatas. Gradually, Herreweghe's vivid, authentic and rhetorical approach of baroque music was praised everywhere and in 1977 Herreweghe founded another ensemble in Paris, La Chapelle Royale, to perform th
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Philippe Herreweghe
Philippe Herreweghe was born in Ghent and studied at both the university and music conservatory in his hometown. During his student years, in 1970, he founded and began conducting Collegium Vocale Gent.
Philippe Herreweghe’s energetic and authentic approach to Baroque music soon drew praise. In 1977 he founded La Chapelle Royale in Paris, with whom he performed French music of the 17th century. From 1982 to 2002 he was artistic director of the Académies musicales de Saintes. He also founded several other ensembles, making historically appropriate interpretations of repertoire stretching from the Renaissance to the present day, including Ensemble Vocal Européen de la Chapelle Royale, specializing in Renaissance polyphony, and, in 1991, the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, created with the aim of playing pre-Romantic and Romantic repertoire on original instruments.
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