Alice Harnoncourt
Alice Harnoncourt (born September 26, 1930 in Vienna ; née Hoffelner ) is an Austrian violinist and one of the pioneers of historical performance practice .
Live and act
During her music studies (piano and violin) she met Nikolaus Harnoncourt . The lessons in performance practice with Professor Josef Mertin (1904–1998) made both of them aware of historical performance practice in early music.
After several years of making music and experimenting on historical musical instruments in private, she founded the Concentus Musicus Vienna in 1953 with her husband and several other musicians . She was actively associated with this ensemble until the death of her husband and (until 1985) gave numerous concerts and made recordings as concertmaster . Until 1968 she played a violin made by Jakob Stainer in 1658 , since then an instrument by the Absamer Master from 1665. She also plays treble viol (the smallest form of the viol ), viola , viola d'amore and violino piccolo . Alice Harnoncourt has been working on the archives of the Concentus Musicus Vienna since the beginning of 2016.
Publications (selection)
- (Ed. :) Nikolaus Harnoncourt: My family. Residence, Salzburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7017-3465-8 .
Web links
- Works by and about Alice Harnoncourt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Alice Harnoncourt in conversation . SRF, 2001
- Memories of Alice Harnoncourt . In: Kleine Zeitung , June 28, 2016
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| SURNAME | Harnoncourt, Alice |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoffelner, Alice (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian violinist of historical performance practice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |