Ralph Kirkpatrick was a musician, musicologist and harpsichordist, born in Leominster, Massachusetts. He studied Art History at Harvard University and went on to further studies with Nadia Boulanger and harpsichord revival pioneer Wanda Landowska in Paris, as well as Arnold Dolmetsch in Haslemere, Heinz Tiessen in Berlin and Günther Ramin in Leipzig. From 1933 to 1934, he taught at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. Wikipedia
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in full Ralph Leonard Kirkpatrick American musicologist and one of the most influential harpsichordists of the 20th century. www.britannica.com/eb/article-9045626/Ralph-Kirkpatrick
