CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD
10 September 1941 – 24 September 2014
Conductor
Musicologist
Keyboard player
Books, essays and articles

Published

2013
'John Dowland on the Keyboard'
in Early Music, Vol.41 No.2 May 2013
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2013
'Urtext, que me veux-tu?'
in Early Music, Vol.41 No.1 February 2013

2013
'The keyboard sonatas of Leopold Koželuch'
in Early Music, Vol.40 No.4 November 2012

2013
'The finest Composition of Musick that ever was heard'
Introductory essay to a CD re-release of Handel Messiah highlights.

2013
'Geminiani Studies'
Editor, and author of the Preface and 'Geminiani and Fine Art', pp.413-476

2012
'The Keyboard Music of Carl Fasch' with Thematic Catalogue
in De Clavicordio X: Proceedings of the X International Clavichord Symposium
ed. Bernard Brauchli, Alberto Galazzo and Judith Wardman

2010
Essays in Honor of Christopher Hogwood: The Maestro's Direction
ed. Thomas Donahue; afterword by Christopher Hogwood

2010
'Musical Identity'
in Identity [Darwin College Lectures Series],
ed. Dr Elisabeth Leedham-Green and Dr Giselle Walker

2010
Foreword
Er ist der Vater, wir sind die Bub'n: Essays in Honor of Christoph Wolff

2010
'"Like bold Briareus with his hundred hands": Handel's use of timpani and percussion'
in Perkussionsinstrumente in der Kunstmusik vom 16. bis zur Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts — Michaelsteiner Konferenzberichte — ed. Boje E. Hans Schmul

2010
'Most delectable and elegant musick'
[a survey of Coronation music]
in The Crown Jewels
ed. Sarah Kilby and Clare Murphy

2009
Introduction
Handel Reveal'd
Handel House Museum catalogue of exhibition curated by Christopher Hogwood

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

2009
Inspiration, Refuge and Recreation
in The University of Cambridge — an 800th Anniversary Portrait ed. Peter Pagnamenta
"...this compendium of low living and high thinking, of student press and Nobel Prizemen ... will enjoy a wide readership." — The Times Literary Supplement

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

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

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

2009
Händel
Polish translation by Barbara Swiderska

2009
Haydn's Visits to England
Republished by Thames & Hudson
"A brisk and breezy roundup of contemporary source material" — Financial Times
"Mr Hogwood describes Haydn’s visits with the same grace he uses in his conducting" — Contemporary Review

2008
Foreword
Mendelssohn in Performance
ed. Siegwart Reichwald
"Mendelssohn in Performance ... should be on the shelf of every performer, scholar and devotee of Mendelssohn's music." — Nineteenth Century Music Review

2008
'Thomas Tudway's History of Music'
in Music in Eighteenth-Century England: Essays in Memory of Charles Cudworth
Ed. Christopher Hogwood and Richard Luckett
Paperback re-issue

2008
'The Clavier Speaks' in
The Century of Bach & Mozart: Perspectives on Historiography, Composition, Theory & Performance. In honour of Christoph Wolff. ed. Sean Gallagher & Thomas Forrest Kelly
"A fitting conclusion for this honorary collection of essays" — Quarterly Journal of The Music Library Association

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

2007
Handel
(revised)
'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

2006
Introduction
in Proceedings of the Nordic Music Editions Symposium,
Copenhagen 1–2 September 2005,

ed. Niels Krabbe

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

2006
'John Dowland Keyboard Music'
in De Clavicordio VII Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano 2005
ed. Bernard Brauchli, Albert Galazzo & Judith Wardman

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

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

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

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

2004
'The Clavichord and its repertoire in France and England before 1700 — a summary and a new manuscript source'
in De Clavicordio VI Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano 2003
ed. Bernard Brauchli, Albert Galazzo & Ivan Moody

2004
'The clavichord in Britain and France: a selection of documentary references before 1700'
in De Clavicordio VI Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano 2003
ed. Bernard Brauchli, Albert Galazzo & Ivan Moody

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

2003
'Knives at the Opera'
The Guardian, November 2003

2003
'My First Opera'
Opera, November 2003

2003
'Music That Changed Me'
BBC Classical Music Magazine, December 2003

2003
'Creating the corpus: the "complete keyboard music" of Henry Purcell'
in The Keyboard in Baroque Europe ed. Christopher Hogwood
'May this collection encourage by example and stimulate further generations of Leonhardt's under-gardeners to labour for their art.' The Consort

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

2003
The Keyboard in Baroque Europe
Editor, and author of 'Creating the corpus: the "complete keyboard music" of Henry Purcell', pp.67-89
"An illuminating and well-balanced compendium on a variety of early keyboard topics" — Early Keyboard Journal

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

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

2002
'The Copenhagen Connection: resources for clavichord players in eighteenth-century Denmark'
in De Clavicordio V
Proceedings of the V International Clavichord Symposium,
Magnano, — September 2001
ed. Bernard Brauchli, Albert Galazzo & Ivan Moody

2000
'"Our old great favourite" Burney, Bach and the Bachists'
in De Clavicordio IV
Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium,
Magnano, 8-11 September 1999
ed. Bernard Brauchli, Susan Brauchli & Albert Galazzo

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

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

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

1997
'The inconstant and original Johann Wilhelm Hässler — his 1786 autobiography and a thematic catalogue of his keyboard works to 1790'
in De Clavicordio III
Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano, 24-28 September 1997
ed. Bernard Brauchli, Susan Brauchli & Albert Galazzo

1996
'In praise of arrangements: the "Symphony Quintetto"'
in Studies in Music History
presented to H. C. Robbins Landon on his seventieth birthday
ed. Otto Biba & David Wyn Jones

1995
'A repertoire for the clavichord'
in De Clavicordio II
Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano, 21-23 September 1995
ed. Bernard Brauchli, Susan Brauchli & Albert Galazzo

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

1995
Introduction
Messiah: A facsimile of the 1743 wordbook

1995
Forward in The Mozart Starter: Exploring the Universe of Mozart's Music

1994
'A case for the clavichord'
in De Clavicordio
Proceedings of the International Clavichord Symposium, Magnano 1993
ed. Bernard Brauchli, Susan Brauchli & Albert Galazzo

1993
'Robert Carver'
entry in Dictionary of National Biography
Supplementary Volume

1993
'Michael Cavendish'
entry in Dictionary of National Biography
Supplementary Volume

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

1992
Handel
(German translation)
Metzler

1991
Georg Friedrich Händel
(Italian translation)
Edizioni Studio Tesi

1991
Edward Holmes's Life of Mozart
Introduction and notes

1991
Handel
(Japanese translation)

1990
Foreword
Companion to Baroque Music
ed. J. A. Sadie
J. M. Dent Sons

1989
'The Bohemian Lands'
in The Classical Era
ed. Neal Zaslaw
Written with Jan Smaczny
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall

1989
Music at Court
(Japanese translation)

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

1988
Haendel
(Spanish translation)

1987
Foreword
Beethoven Remembered: The Biographical Notes of Franz Wegeler and Ferdinand Ries
Trans. F. Noonan
Great Ocean, Deutsch

1987
La Sonate en Trio
(French Translation)

1985
'General introduction to the London pleasure gardens'
in Music for London Entertainment, Series F
ed. Richard MacNutt

1985
'Introduction to Arne's Lyric Harmony'
in Music for London Entertainment, Series F
ed. Richard MacNutt

1984
Handel

1983
'Thomas Tudway's History of Music'
in Music in Eighteenth-Century England
ed. Christopher Hogwood and Richard Luckett
Issued in paperback 2008

1980
Haydn's Visits to England
Re-published with revisions by Thames & Hudson in 2009

1979
The Trio Sonata

1977
Music at Court
Folio Society (re-published 1980 by Gollancz)

1976
'Frescobaldi on performance'
in Italian Music and the Fitzwilliam

1975
'Sources for the performance of French keyboard music'
in French Music and the Fitzwilliam

1974
'Authentic Performance and Original Instruments'
in Handel and the Fitzwilliam

 

In preparation

The Classical Clavichord

A Private Music