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Alice Harnoncourt

Austrian violinist (1930–2022)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 18, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Alice Harnoncourt was an Austrian classical violinist. She was a pioneer in the movement of historically informed performance, founding with her husband Nikolaus Harnoncourt the Concentus Musicus Wien ensemble playing on period instruments, of which she was principal violinist.

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“Alice Harnoncourt” enters the record as austrian violinist (1930–2022). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alice, Harnoncourt and Austrian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alice Harnoncourt” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.