Susanne Lautenbacher (born 19 April 1932, in

Augsburg Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ' ...

) is a German

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

ist. She studied violin with the Munich-based violin pedagogue Karl Freund (first violin of the Freund Quartet) and later with

Henryk Szeryng Henryk Szeryng (usually pronounced ''HEN-r-ik SHEH-r-in-g'') (22 September 19183 March 1988) was a Polish violinist. Early years He was born in Warsaw, Poland on 22 September 1918 into a wealthy Jewish family. The surname "Szeryng" is a Polish ...

. She was a prizewinner in the early years of the Munich ARD Violin Competition. On some early recordings her name appears as Suzanne or Susi. Lautenbacher has made a large number of gramophone recordings, and featured in numerous recordings of

concerto A concerto (; plural ''concertos'', or ''concerti'' from the Italian plural) is, from the late Baroque era, mostly understood as an instrumental composition, written for one or more soloists accompanied by an orchestra or other ensemble. The typi ...

s and

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...

between the late 1950s and early 1990s, on labels such as Vox, Turnabout, Intercord, Bärenreiter-Musicaphon, Bayer, and many others. She has recorded works by Biber, Locatelli,

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, Haydn,

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including two of the five Violin Concertos and the Concertone K. 190,

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...

including the Concerto, both Romances and the 'Spring' and 'Kreutzer' Sonatas, J.N. Hummel,

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, Rolla, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Spohr, Viotti,

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, Reger,

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, Kurt Weill,Scott, Matthew, "Reviews of Records" (Weill) (April 1982). ''The Musical Quarterly'', 68 (2): pp. 298-299.

Karl Amadeus Hartmann Karl Amadeus Hartmann (2 August 1905 – 5 December 1963) was a German composer. Sometimes described as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century, he is now largely overlooked, particularly in English-speaking countries. Life Born in ...

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, Hans Schaeuble,

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(''Concerto dell'albatro'') and

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. She also made numerous concert appearances, especially with the

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, Heilbronn, conducted by

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. Among other works, Lautenbacher instigated and premièred the Concerto for violin and voices ''Orpheus'' (1978/9) by Arthur Dangel and the Violin Concerto ''Septuarchie'' (1975) by

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. She also performed regularly in chamber music, principally with the Bell'Arte Trio (

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Ulrich Koch Ulrich Koch (14 March 1921 – 7 June 1996) was a German Viola, violist. Life Born in Braunschweig, Koch received violin lessons from Ion Voicu in Berlin. In 1945 he worked with the orchestra of the Staatstheater Braunschweig, from 1949 in the S ...

(viola), Thomas Blees then Martin Ostertag (cello), and the pianist

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. With other instrumentalists, the Trio also appeared as the Bell'Arte Ensemble. Lautenbacher taught the violin for many years at the Stuttgart Conservatoire where she was appointed to a professorship in 1965. Her husband, Heinz Jansen (1906–2002), a violinist in the Armin Lutz and Karl Freund String Quartets and also a viola player in the Edwin Fischer Chamber Orchestra, after the War became a recording engineer and producer who founded and directed his own classical music recording company, the Südwest-Tonstudio Stuttgart, where many of Susanne Lautenbacher's numerous recordings were made.

References

;Further Reading Jansen, Heinz: ''Von der Wiege über die Geige zur Schallplatte - Lebenserinnerungen.'' Privatdruck, 1988 Reif, Ruth Renée: die ''

Stuttgarter Philharmoniker The Stuttgarter Philharmoniker (Stuttgart Philharmonic) is the symphony orchestra of Stuttgart, the capital of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Founded in 1924, they play regular concert series including youth concerts in Stuttgart, as well as guest c ...

, ein historisches Porträt.'' Tübingen: Silberburg-Verlag, 1999 {{DEFAULTSORT:Lautenbacher, Susanne 1932 births Living people German women musicians Women classical violinists 21st-century violinists 21st-century women musicians