Susanne Lautenbacher

Susanne Lautenbacher (born April 19, 1932 in Augsburg ) is a German violinist.

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Susanne Lautenbacher, daughter of the music educator Josef Lautenbacher (1899–1970) began her violin studies in Munich with Karl Freund, the first violinist in the Freund Quartet, and later continued her studies with Henryk Szeryng . At a young age she won the ARD violin competition in Munich.

Lautenbacher taught at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe from 1960 and worked from 1965 to 1992 as a professor at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart . Between 1950 and 1990 she made numerous recordings, not least through her husband Heinz Jansen, who was a musician and sound engineer, founder and director of the "Südwest-Tonstudios Stuttgart".

The spectrum of her recordings includes Biber's Rosary Sonatas as well as the concerts by Locatelli , Vivaldi and Bach from the baroque period, the important classical works by Mozart , Beethoven and Schubert , the great romantic concerts such as those by Mendelssohn , Spohr and Brahms . She also made chamber music recordings and concerts with works by Henze , Reger , Pfitzner and others. In 1978 she gave the world premiere of the Concerto for Violin and Voices, op. 41 Orpheus by Arthur Dangel (* 1931).

She appeared regularly with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra in Heilbronn under the direction of Jörg Faerber . Her interest in early music made her a pioneer of the then burgeoning historical performance practice , with the musicians around Hans-Martin Linde .

Between 1967 and 1973 she played 6 times as a soloist in concerts by the Berlin Symphony Orchestra under the direction of its chief conductor Carl August Bünte . In the area of ​​chamber music she was a member of the “Bell'Arte Trio Stuttgart”.

In the complete recording of Biber's Rosary Sonatas, she played a violin by Nicolas Lupot from 1789 and the viol player Johannes Koch (1910–1973) an instrument by Joachim Tielke from 1677.

Web links

• Works by Susanne Lautenbacher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Susanne Lautenbacher at Discogs (English)