Aida Stucki

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Aida Stucki

Aida Stucki (born February 19, 1921 in Cairo ; † June 9, 2011 ) was a Swiss violinist and teacher living in Winterthur .

Life

Aida Stucki received her training from Ernst Wolters in Winterthur, Stefi Geyer in Zurich and Carl Flesch in Lucerne. As a prize winner in the Geneva Competition in 1940, the doors opened for her to a wide range of concert activities with the most renowned conductors in all of Europe. Piano partners were Pina Pozzi, Walter Frey , Christoph Lieske, Clara Haskil and Elly Ney .

Together with her husband, the first concertmaster of the Zurich Radio Symphony Orchestra, Giuseppe Piraccini, the principal violist Hermann Friedrich, later Gerhard Wieser, and the principal cellist Walter Haefeli , she founded the Piraccini-Stucki String Quartet in 1959, which soon gained international renown. The two violinists often replaced each other - unfamiliar at the time, common today - as the prime violinist in the same concert, which gave the quartet sound a different tone.

Aida Piraccini-Stucki had already started teaching in Winterthur in 1948, and in 1992 she was given the first violin master class at the Winterthur Conservatory (now the Zurich University of the Arts ), which she supervised until her resignation. Her most famous student is Anne-Sophie Mutter . The fact that the star violinist barely fails to express gratitude for her former teacher at the Winterthur Conservatory and her real discoverer in hardly any interviews testifies to the educational importance of Aida Stucki. Numerous musical personalities who shape international musical life today emerged from Aida Stucki's school.

In studio, radio and live recordings, around one hundred works from all musical eras with Aida Stucki have been preserved and transferred to CD.

Awards

  • 1973: Pro Arte Bern Foundation
  • 1975: Carl Heinrich Ernst Art Prize (Winterthur)
  • 1992: Art Prize of the municipality of Zollikon from the Dr. K. and H. Hintermeister-Gyger-Foundation

literature

  • Zurich University of the Arts (Ed.) "ZHdK" - A future for the arts, Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SDA report from June 18, 2011 in "Southeast Switzerland"
  2. ↑ Thomas Schacher in: NZZ of June 21, 2011, Zurich Culture, p. 11 (obituary)
  3. ↑ Jan Brachmann: I just stormed forward. (Conversation with Anne-Sophie Mutter.) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 11, 2020, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Stucki, Aida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piraccini-Stucki, Aida; Stucki-Piraccini, Aida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss violinist and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 2011