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Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood CBE, MA (Cantab), HonMusD (Cantab) (born 10 September 1941, Nottingham) is an English conductor, harpsichordist, writer and scholar of music. Hogwood studied music and classical literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He went on to study performance and conducting under Raymond Leppard and Thurston Dart; and later with Rafael Puyana and Gustav Leonhardt. A British Council scholarship enabled him to study in Prague for a year. In 1967, Hogwood founded the Early Music Consort with David Munrow, and in 1973 he founded the Academy of Ancient Music, specializing in performances of baroque and early classical music with...