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- Birth nameHarold Chandler Robbins Landon
- H.C. Robbins Landon was born on March 6, 1926 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for Der Apotheker (1971), Music on 2 (1965) and Lo speziale (1982). He was married to Else Radant and Christa Landon. He died on November 20, 2009 in Rabastens, Tarn, France.
- SpousesElse Radant(? - November 20, 2009) (his death)Christa Landon(? - 1977) (her death)
- He was a correspondent for Musical America and The Times of London.
- He attended Swarthmore College and Boston University.
- He was an American musicologist who helped to bring many neglected works of Haydn back to the active repertoire. He was a founder of the Haydn Society in Boston in 1949. The society produced recordings of previously-unrecorded Haydn symphonies, as well as the first recordings of Mozart's "Idomeneo" and Mass in C minor.
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