- 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.
- Founder and conductor of the Concentus Musicus Wien, an ensemble using period Baroque instruments.
- 2nd cousin of Franz Meran and Maria Theresia Meran.
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