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Nicolas Gombert
Nicolas Gombert
Franco-Flemish composer
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Joe͏̈l Suhubiette
Joe͏̈l Suhubiette
French conductor and choir director
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Philippe Caillard
Philippe Caillard
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Eric Ericson
Eric Ericson
Swedish conductor
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Morten Lauridsen
Morten Lauridsen
American composer
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Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
choir
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Ton de Leeuw
Ton de Leeuw
Dutch composer
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Marc de Ranse
Marc de Ranse
French pianist, composer, organist, choir director and music educator
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La Grande Chapelle
La Grande Chapelle
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Reinbert de Leeuw
Reinbert de Leeuw
Dutch conductor
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Helmuth Rilling
Helmuth Rilling
German choral conductor
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Clytus Gottwald
Clytus Gottwald
German composer, conductor and musicologist
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Oscar van Dillen
Oscar van Dillen
Dutch composer, conductor, flautist and music educator
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John Alldis
John Alldis
English chorus-master and conductor
Paul Van Nevel
art historian, musician

Paul Van Nevel

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art historian, musician
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Paul Van Nevel, 2003.

Paul Van Nevel (born 4 February 1946) is a Belgian conductor, musicologist and art historian. In 1971 he founded the Huelgas Ensemble, a choir dedicated to polyphony from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Van Nevel is known for hunting out little known polyphonic medieval works to perform.

He grew up in a musical family. From the age of 11 to 18 he used to sing four hours a day. His father played violin and encouraged his son to play every instrument in the house. While his father loved Wagner, his son Paul favoured Béla Bartók. His nephew Erik Van Nevel is also a choral conductor.

From 1969 to 1971 he studied early music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland. There he founded the Huelgas Ensemble, taking the name from the famous Codex Las Huelgas at the Cistercian monastery near Burgos which Van Nevel visited as a 24-year-old. He was able to spend two weeks studying the manuscript with the aid of a recommendation letter from the Belgian authorities.

Van Nevel teaches at the Conservatory of Amsterdam and has been guest conductor of the Collegium Vocale Gent, the Netherlands Chamber Choir and the choir of the Netherlands Bach Society. In 1994 he was awarded the Prix Paris in honorem of the Academy Charles Cros. His recordings with the Huelgas Ensemble received numerous awards including the Diapason d'Or in 1996 and the MIDEM Cannes Classical Award for best choral music in 1998.

Van Nevel is well known for his fondness for cigars, this interest finding musical outlet in The Art of the Cigar (2011, DHM).

In 1994 he was sentenced to three years and four months in prison for stealing, in 1988, seven rare musical works in the Museo Bibliografico Musicale di Bologna.