Anne Schumann (born in 1966) is a German violinist and

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Career

Schumann was born in

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. She received her first violin lessons at the age of five with Sabine Harazim and later with Hartmut Opolka. In 1974 she had her first public performance in

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in Halle an der Saale. From 1979 she was an external student at the Spezialschule für Musik Weimar and from 1982 to 1984 she was also in the boarding school there. In 1984 she began studying music at the

Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar The University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar (in German: Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar) is an institution of music in Weimar, Germany. The Hochschule Franz Liszt, who spent a great deal of his life in Weimar, encouraged the founding of ...

. In May/June 1985 she went on a concert tour with a specially composed youth

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to Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, the

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and the Soviet Union. In 1985 she changed to the

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in the class of Heinz Rudolf. In 1988 she dealt with historical instruments for the first time. In 1989 she played in the

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under Claudio Abbado and became a member of the Gewandhaus orchestra in Leipzig. Since 1993 Schumann has played as a freelance baroque violinist, primarily in England with the English Baroque Soloists and the ''Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique''. In 1994 she founded her own Ensemble in Leipzig, the Chursächsische Capelle Leipzig, which is especially dedicated to the performance of forgotten

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works. For several years (1992, 1993, 1995, 1996 and 1998) she was concertmaster in the European Union Baroque Orchestra. Besides her occupation with historical violins and violas, she likes to work on new

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s for the viola d'amore. Since 2002 she also teaches at summer courses and workshops, e.g. at the Academy for

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in Bruneck, at the International Summer Course in the

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and at ''Musica viva Musikferien'' in Tuscany. She also works with many ensembles in projects including , Chursächsische Capelle Leipzig, English Baroque Soloists, Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique, Les Amis de Philippe, , La Cesta, Musicalische Schlemmerey and Fürsten-Musik. Schumann plays on a

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and viola d'amore, and has recorded numerous Compact Discs.

Prizes and awards

2019:

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prize of the city of Zerbst

Discography

* Georg Philipp Telemann: ''Tafelmusik für Naxos mit dem "Orchestra of the Golden Age"'' (Manchester, 1995) *

William Lawes William Lawes (April 160224 September 1645) was an English composer and musician. Life and career Lawes was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire and was baptised on 1 May 1602. He was the son of Thomas Lawes, a vicar choral at Salisbury Cathedral, ...

: ''Royall Consorts with Monika Huggett in the Ensemble "The Greate Consort"'' (ASV London, 1995/96) * Georg Friedrich Handel: ''Cantate d'amore – italienische Liebeskantaten'' (Delta Music, 1996) * Johann Sebastian Bach: ''Bach Cantata Pilgrimage'' (Soli Deo Gloria, 2000) * Johann Gottlieb Graun: '' Trio sonatas with

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'' (cpo, 2006) *

Philipp Heinrich Erlebach Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (25 July 1657 – 17 April 1714) was a German Baroque composer, a prolific writer of church music and secular music. Much of his work is lost due to a fire. Life Erlebach was born in Esens, Lower Saxony, the son of Jo ...

: ''

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s by Erlebach'' (cpo, 2007) *

Johann Friedrich Fasch Johann Friedrich Fasch (15 April 1688 – 5 December 1758) was a German violinist and composer. Much of his music is in the Baroque-Classical transitional style known as galant. Life Fasch was born in the town of Buttelstedt, 11 km north o ...

: ''Fasch Concerti'' (cpo, 2008) * ''Musik für Viola d'amore'' (Genuin, 2010) *

Antonio Bertali Antonio Bertali (March 1605–17 April 1669) was an Italian composer and violinist of the Baroque era. He was born in Verona and received early music education there from Stefano Bernardi. Probably from 1624, he was employed as court music ...

: ''Le Concert Brisé'' (Accent, 2012) * Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: ''Rosenkranzsonaten I.'' (Kamprad, 2015)

DVD

* DVD Barockmusik mit Bildern von Petra Iversen (2012)

References

External links

Anne Schumann – ''Barockgeigerin''
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Schumann, Anne German classical violinists Women violinists German performers of early music German music educators 1966 births Living people People from Dohna