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Benjamin Alard is a French classical harpsichordist and organist.

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Michel Bouvard is a French classical organist.

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William Lincoln Christie is an American-born French conductor and harpsichordist. He is a specialist in baroque and classical repertoire and is the founder of the ensemble Les Arts Florissants.

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Eugène Arnold Dolmetsch, was a French-born musician and instrument maker who spent much of his working life in England and established an instrument-making workshop in Haslemere, Surrey. He was a leading figure in the 20th-century revival of interest in early music.

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William Dongois is a French brass player with a focus on the cornett.

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Vincent Dumestre is a French lutenist. In 1997 he founded the ensemble Le Poème Harmonique.

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Véronique Gens is a French operatic soprano. She has spent much of her career recording and performing Baroque music.

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Emmanuelle Haïm is a French harpsichordist and conductor with a particular interest in early music and Baroque music.

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Pierre Hantaï is a French conductor and harpsichordist.

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Philippe Jaroussky is a French countertenor. He began his musical career with the violin, winning an award at the Versailles conservatory, and then took up the piano before turning to singing.

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Jean-Claude Malgoire was a French oboist and later conductor.

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Béatrice Martin is a French harpsichordist.

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Marc Minkowski is a French conductor of classical music, especially known for his interpretations of French Baroque works, and is the current general director of Opéra national de Bordeaux. His mother, Mary Anne (Wade), is American, and his father was Alexandre Minkowski, a Polish-French professor of pediatrics and one of the founders of neonatology. Marc Minkowski is a Chevalier du Mérite.

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Patricia Petibon is a French soprano.

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Christophe Rousset is a French harpsichordist and conductor, who specializes in the performance of Baroque music on period instruments. He is also a musicologist, particularly of opera and European music of the 17th and 18th centuries and is the founder of the French music ensemble Les Talens Lyriques.

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Jean-Christophe Spinosi is a French conductor and violinist, the founder of French orchestra Ensemble Matheus.

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Valentin Tournet is a French conductor, choral conductor and viola da gamba player.