- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJohann Nicolaus Graf de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt
- Height6′ 4″ (1.93 m)
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt was born on December 6, 1929 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor, known for Napoleon (2023), Nixon (1995) and The Triplets of Belleville (2003). He was married to Alice Harnoncourt. He died on March 5, 2016 in St. Georgen in Attergau, Vöcklabruck, Upper Austria, Austria.
- SpouseAlice Harnoncourt(June 27, 1953 - March 5, 2016) (his death, 4 children)
- Children
- RelativesPhilipp Harnoncourt(Sibling)Franz Harnoncourt(Sibling)Marianne Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn(Cousin)
- Awarded the Polar Music Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music Award (1994), the Kyoto Prize (2004) and the Leipzig Bach Medal (2007).
- Austrian conductor.
- Born to Eberhard de la Fontaine Count d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt, an engineer, and his wife Ladislaja Countess of Meran, a great-granddaughter of Habsburg Archduke Johann; he grew up with a younger brother, Philipp.
- Father of a daughter, singer Elisabeth Von Magnus, and three sons, Philipp (b. 1955), Franziskus (b. 1961) and Eberhard (1957-1990).
- He studied the cello at Vienna's Academy of Music, and was a member of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra for 17 years.
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