Hugo Ruf has been played on NTS in shows including Le Jardin w/ Sarah Davachi, featured first on 20 October 2025. Songs played include Sonata En Sol Mayor Para Viola De Gamba Y Bajo Continuo. Allegro - Adagio - Minuetto.

Hugo Ruf, (1925 - 1999) studied at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg (harpsichord / historical keyboard instruments with Fritz Neumeyer, performance practice of early music with Gustav Scheck). To complete his musical education, he devoted himself to musicological studies in Freiburg, and later in Munich and Paris.

Numerous concert tours in the major European cultural centers, radio recordings in all German and many foreign channels and numerous recordings for Deutsche Grammophon include company, EMI Electrola, and Harmonia Mundi, made him as an outstanding expert on the performance practice of music of the 17th and 18 Century and the baroque instruments. In 1984 he was awarded the Prize of the German Record Critics for his recording of 3 sonatas for harpsichord by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (EMI).

In 1967 Hugo Ruf became harpsichord professor at the Cologne University of Music and also the director of the Department of Ancient Music. In 1971 he was appointed Professor properly. He was a pioneer in the movement, "Early Music in Historical Performance Practice" and shaped by his profound influence many students.

Hugo gained world renown reputation as a publisher and editor of numerous works of old masters. Its about 400 editions, hitherto mostly unpublished works, and musicological studies selected from a wealth of authentic source material.