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Art of Fugue
Johann Sebastian Bach
Louis Bagger, Harpsichord
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Recorded September 5 - 7, 1981, at the Congregational Church, Lyndeboro Center, New Hampshire. The harpsichord is by William Hyman, 1974. Recording Engineer: Ralph Dopmeyer Design: The Philidor Company, Boston Cover art: "The Philosopher" by Rembrandt van Rijn. Courtesy of the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Total playing time: 70:00 |
About the Performer
Louis Bagger received a Bachelor's degree in Italian literature from Yale University and a Master of Fine Arts in musicology from Princeton University. His harpsichord studies were with two of the acknowledged masters of our time: Ralph Kirkpatrick and Gustav Leonhardt. in addition, he studied piano with Arthur Loesser and Edward Steuermann, organ with Frank Bozyan and Carl Weinrich, and, in Rome as a Fulbright scholar, with Ferruccio Vignanelli.
Mr. Bagger is widely recognized as a recitalist and chamber musician. He has appeared at the Aston Magna Festival, the Gulbankian Festival in Portugal, and as a guest artist with the Waverly Consort, the Boston Camerata, and the Cambridge Society for Early Music.
Currently on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, Mr. Bagger has also served on the faculties of Brandeis University and Harvard University, as artist-in-residence at the University of California at Davis, and on the summer staff of the Eastman School of Music.