Joseph Payne was a British/Swiss German harpsichordist, clavichordist, organist and musicologist, whose world-wide reputation was based on his performances of music of all periods, though best known for his pioneering recordings of early keyboard music accompanied by his meticulously informative liner notes.
He was born in the Chahar province of China in 1937, the son of a British father, Joseph, and a Swiss-German mother, Wilhelmina, who were licensed preachers and missionaries to Mongolia. Dur...
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