Paul Van Nevel

Paul Van Nevel (born 4 February 1946) is a Belgian conductor, musicologist and art historian.

In 1971 he founded the Huelgas Ensemble,[1] a choir dedicated to polyphony from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

While his father loved Wagner, his son Paul favoured Béla Bartók.

He was able to spend two weeks studying the manuscript with the aid of a recommendation letter from the Belgian authorities.

[4] In 1994 he was sentenced to three years and four months in prison for stealing, in 1988, seven rare musical works in the Museo Bibliografico Musicale di Bologna.