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Davitt Moroney
![Davitt Moroney, on the day of his recital in La Hulpe, Belgium, on 17 June 2011](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Davitt_Moroney.jpg)
He has given the first modern performances of much repertoire; the ''Livre de tablature de Clavescin'' by Marc Roger Normand Couperin of Turin, whose works he identified in 1997, the complete organ works of Louis Couperin and a newly discovered autograph manuscript of harpsichord music by Henry Purcell.
He has recorded Bach, Biber, Couperin, and others. He won the 2000 Gramophone Early Music award for his recording of the complete keyboard music of William Byrd (see also: ''My Ladye Nevells Booke'' and ''The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book''), published on Hyperion Records, which he performed on harpsichord, chamber organ, church organ, clavichord, and muselar.
He has published critical editions of the work of various baroque composers, including a keyboard edition (and his own recording) of Johann Sebastian Bach's ''The Art of Fugue'' that contains his own completion of the final unfinished fugue. He has also rediscovered the 40 and 60 part mass ''Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno'' by Alessandro Striggio, lost since the 17th century, of which he conducted what he believed to be the first performance since the 16th century on 17 July 2007 at the BBC Proms in London.
Until 2001, he was also director of Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre, the French-Australian music publishing company which sold its LP business to Decca Classics in 1970. Provided by Wikipedia