Michi Gaigg
Austrian conductor and violinist Michi Gaigg has been a major force in the historical performance movement across Europe, having directed two important ensembles and led important performances of Baroque opera.
Gaigg was born in Schörfling am Attersee, Austria, on April 22, 1957. As a violin student at the Salzburg Mozarteum, she attended lectures given by Austrian historical performance pioneer Nikolaus Harnoncourt and switched to Baroque violin, studying with Ingrid Seifert and Sigiswald Kuijken. As a violinist she was a member of ensembles in various countries and worked with top conductors including Alan Curtis, Christopher Hogwood, René Jacobs, Frans Brüggen, and Ton Koopman. Gaigg has lived in Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, and France, but returned to Austria in the early 1990s. In 1983 she founded the ensemble L'Arpa Festante in Munich, remaining its director until 1995. The following year she and oboist and recorder player Carin van Heerden established L'Orfeo Barockorchester, which has enjoyed a strong reputation Europe-wide.
Gaigg's interests as a conductor extend well forward into the Classical period and even beyond. Her debut recording with the orchestra, in 1996, was an album of symphonies by the little-recorded Viennese composer Georg Monn, a significant predecessor to Haydn and Mozart. That recording, like many others by the group, was made for Germany's CPO label. For CPO she recorded the 12 String Symphonies by the young Felix Mendelssohn in two volumes, appearing in 2015 and 2017. As her career has advanced, Gaigg has conducted performances of Baroque and Classical operas, many of them historically neglected such as Handel's first opera, Almira, Queen of Castille; Haydn's The Desert Island; and Romeo und Julie of Georg Anton Benda. Her performance of Mozart's Betulia Liberata, K. 118, was recorded and released by Challenge Classics. She has also recorded a rare trilogy of early Rossini operas.
Gaigg taught at the Strasbourg Conservatory in France in the late 1980s. Since 1993 she has been on the faculty at the Institute for Early Music at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz.
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Discography
20 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Schubert: Complete Symphonies & Fragments
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg
Classical - Released by CPO on 19 Nov 2021
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Monn: 6 Symphonies
Chamber Music - Released by CPO on 1 Nov 1996
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Rebel, J.F.: Elemens (Les) / Rameau, J.P.: Castor Et Pollux Suite (Jean-Ferry Rebel - Jean-Philippe Rameau)
Classical - Released by Phoenix Edition on 19 Jun 2008
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Wagenseil: Symphonies, Vol. 1
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg
Classical - Released by CPO on 1 Jan 1999
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Gluck: 5 Symphonies
Symphonic Music - Released by CPO on 7 Jun 2011
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Rameau: Pigmalion, RCT 52 (Excerpts) & Dardanus, RCT 35 [Excerpts]
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Anders J. Dahlin, Michi Gaigg
Opera - Released by CPO on 4 Sep 2020
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Myslivecek: Symphonies Nos. 1-6 & Overtures
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg
Classical - Released by CPO on 1 Dec 2004
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Aufschnaiter: Serenades
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg
Classical - Released by CPO on 20 Jan 1998
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F. Mendelssohn: String Symphonies, Vol. 3 (Arr. for Strings & Piano)
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Margot Oitzinger, Michi Gaigg
Classical - Released by CPO on 21 Jun 2019
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Mendelssohn: String Symphonies, Vol. 1
Classical - Released by CPO on 6 Nov 2015
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Bach, J.S.: Kantaten für Solo-Sopran
Dorothee Mields, L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg
Classical - Released by Carus on 1 Oct 2015
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Holzbauer: 5 Symphonies
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg
Classical - Released by CPO on 25 Jan 2000
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Rameau: Zaïs & Hippolyte et Aricie (Orchestral Suite Version)
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg
Classical - Released by Crystal Classics on 12 Aug 2011
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J.C. Bach: Salve Regina
Emma Kirkby, Markus Schäfer, L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg
Classical - Released by CPO on 13 May 2001
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Mozart, L.: Symphonies
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg
Symphonic Music - Released by CPO on 1 Jan 2003
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Mendelssohn: String Symphonies, Vol. 2
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg
Classical - Released by CPO on 3 Nov 2017
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Pregardien, Christoph: Mozart Concert Arias for Tenor
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Christoph Prégardien, Michi Gaigg, Samuel Zund
Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) - Released by CPO on 1 Jan 2002
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Rameau: Zaïs & Hippolyte et Aricie
L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg
Classical - Released by Delta Music Entertainment on 12 Aug 2011
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Beethoven: 12 Country Dances / 12 German Dances / 6 Minuets / 11 Modling Dances
Classical - Released by CPO on 1 Jan 2006
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Telemann: Miriways
Classical - Released by CPO on 31 Jan 2014
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