Joseph Payne United Kingdom
Biography
Joseph Payne (1941 – 14 January 2008) was a British/Swiss German harpsichordist, clavichordist, organist and musicologist, best known for his pioneering recordings of early keyboard music. He was born in the Chahar province of China in 1941, the son of a British father, Joseph Sr. (c.1909-1955), and a Swiss German mother, Mina, who were missionaries to Mongolia. During his birth during World War II he lived at an internment camp in Shanghai. The family subsequently moved to England
