Once considerer the recorder player of the XX century, Frans Brüggen left a big legacy and his unquestionable footprint in the development of Early music; particularly in the recorder; a footprint that hunted him for decades till his last days.
Although stopped early in his life with the recorder to become a conductor and founder together with Lucy van Dael their revolutionary orchestra; The Orchestra of the Eighteen Century. Bruggen is still remembered as an influential recorder player.