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William Christie (musician)
William Lincoln Christie (born December 19, 1944) is a conductor and harpsichordist.
He was born in Buffalo, New York, and studied art history at Harvard and music at Yale. His teachers included Ralph Kirkpatrick and Kenneth Gilbert . He moved to France in 1971, and became known for his interpretations of Baroque music, particularly French Baroque music. In 1979 he founded Les Arts Florissants, named for a work by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, an ensemble devoted to Baroque music. He has also taught at the Paris Conservatoire.
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