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Louis S. Bagger, harpsichordist and musicologist. Louis Sabin Bagger, born 10 Dec. 1926 (Detroit, Michigan, USA), is a distinguished harpsichordist and musicologist. He earned a BA from Yale University, with honors in Italian, and was a Fulbright scholar, University of Rome, in 1949. He earned an MFA from Princeton University. His undergraduate teachers included the composer Paul Hindemith. He studied harpsichord with Ralph Kirkpatrick and Gustav Leonhardt; organ with Weinrich, Noss, Vignanelli; piano with Loesser and Steurermann. He was on the music faculty of Brandeis University, 1966-1975; Artist in Residence, University of California at Davis, Spring, 1976; faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music, New York City, from 1976 (Music History & Musicology); solo recitalist, chamber music concerts & radio broadcasts, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Canada, US. Recordings: Vox, Musical Heritage (CPE Bach: Concerto in E flat; Concerto in C Minor), Monitor & Titanic. Notable recordings include Bach's Art of Fugue (Titanic) and Frescobaldi: Works for Harpsichord (2001, Titanic). As a scholar of C.P.E. Bach, he contributed editorial work as well as recordings.