The Munich Fanny Mendelssohn String Quartet,

Renate Eggebrecht Renate Eggebrecht (August 12, 1944 – January 8, 2023) was a German violinist and record producer. Music training Born in Selent, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Eggebrecht received her first music lessons from her mother, before she was four ye ...

1st violin, Mario Korunic 2nd violin, Stefan Berg viola,

Friedemann Kupsa Friedemann Kupsa (* September 7, 1943 in St.Pölten, Austria) is an Austrian Cellist. Friedemann Kupsa studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Vienna, and attended masterclasses with Daniil Shafran (cello) and the La Salle Quartet (chambe ...

violoncello, was founded in 1989 in the occasion of the performance and publication of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel's String Quartet in E-flat major and Piano Quartet in A-flat major at the Gasteig/ Munich. The

String Quartet The term string quartet can refer to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards wrote string quartets. The associated musical ensemble consists of two violinists ...

plays music by women composers including many first performances such as works of Violeta Dinescu,

Gloria Coates Gloria Coates (born October 10, 1938, in Wausau, Wisconsin) is an American composer who has lived in Munich since 1969. She studied with Alexander Tcherepnin, Otto Luening, and Jack Beeson. Music Her music features canonic structures and prom ...

, Fukuo Yamagushi,

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and Mayako Kubo (

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, guitar). The quartet recorded the chamber music of

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847) was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era who was also known as Fanny (Cäcilie) Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel (as well as Fanny Mendelssohn He ...

(Stefan Mickisch, piano) and Ethel Smyth as CD world premiere recordings. They presented the CD world premieres of the String Quartets of Elisabeth Lutyens.

and Violeta Dinescu and also CD recordings of the String Quartets of Grazyna Bacewicz, Germane Tailleferre, Arthur Bliss and Darius Milhaud (with

Ulrike Sonntag Ulrike Sonntag (born 1959) is a German operatic soprano and academic voice teacher at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. She was previously a member of the Staatstheater Stuttgart, Vienna State Opera, and other ...

, soprano). In 1997 the ensemble recorded the great piano chamber music of

Max Reger Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, as a musical director at the Paulinerkirche, Leipzig, Leipzig University ...

, his Piano Quintet c minor and his two Piano Quartets (

Wolfram Lorenzen Wolfram Lorenzen (1951/1952 – 15 June 2020) was a German pianist. Biography Wolfram Lorenzen was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic ...

, piano). The Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet debuted at the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival with the interpretation of the String Quartet E minor of Ethel Smyth and the Piano Quartet of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (Céline Dutilly, piano). The musicians performed the chamber music of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel at the Chard Music Festival, England, for the first time.

CD recordings

* Fanny Mendelssohn, String Quartet E flat major (1834), Piano Quartet A flat major (1822) (world premiere recordings) * Ethel Smyth, String Quintet E major op.1, String Quartet E minor (1912) (world premiere recordings) * Germaine Tailleferre, String Quartet (1919) * Grażyna Bacewicz, String Quartets N° 4 (1950), N° 6 (world premiere recording) (1960), N° 7 (1965) * Elisabeth Lutyens, String Quartet N° 6 op. 25, Violeta Dinescu, String Quartet Terra Lonhdana (1984), Gloria Coates, String Quartet N° 3 (1975) (world premiere recordings) * Darius Milhaud, String Quartets N° 1 op. 5, N° 2 op.16, N° 3 op. 32 with soprano (world premiere recording), N° 4 op. 46, N° 5 op. 64, N° 6 op. 77, N° 7 op. 87, N° 8 op. 121, Machines agricoles op. 56, Catalogue de Fleurs op.60 (world premiere recording) * Arthur Bliss, String Quartet N° 1 B flat major (1941), String Quartet N° 2, F minor (1950) *

, Piano Quintet C minor op. 64, Piano Quartet D minor op. 113, Piano Quartet A minor op. 133

Members

* Renate Eggebrecht, violin * Mario Korunič, violin * Stefan Berg, viola * Friedemann Kupsa, violoncello

External links

* {{authority control German string quartets Musical groups established in 1989