title: Alejandro Planchart
text: Alejandro Enrique Planchart (July 29, 1935 – April 28, 2019) was a Venezuelan-American musicologist, conductor and composer. He was thought to be one of the leading experts on the music of Guillaume Du Fay. He was also an expert on music of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. He taught at Yale University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was born in Caracas.
  
  Planchart died on April 28, 2019 in Santa Barbara, California. He was 83.
  
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  1935 births
  2019 deaths
  American composers
  American conductors
  Harvard University alumni
  Musicologists
  People from Caracas
  Yale University alumni