Anne-Sophie Mutter
Anne-Sophie Mutter (born 29 June 1963) is a German violinist. Born and raised in Rheinfelden, Baden-Württemberg, Mutter started playing the violin at age five and continued studies in Germany and Switzerland. She was supported early in her career by Herbert von Karajan. Since her orchestral debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1977, Mutter has recorded over 50 albums and performed as a prominent soloist with leading orchestras worldwide. Her primary instrument is the Lord Dunn–Raven Stradivarius violin.
Anne-Sophie Mutter | |
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| Born | 29 June, 1963 (age 59) Rheinfelden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| Occupation | Violinist |
| Spouse(s) | Detlef Wunderlich
(m. 1989; died 1995) |
| Children | 2 |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | Classical |
| Instrument(s) | |
| Years active | 1976–present |
| Website | anne-sophie-mutter |
Mutter's repertoire includes traditional classical violin works from the Baroque period to the 20th century, but she also is known for performing, recording, and commissioning new works by present-day composers. As an advocate of contemporary music, she has had several works composed especially for her, by Sebastian Currier, Henri Dutilleux, Sofia Gubaidulina, Witold Lutosławski, Norbert Moret, Krzysztof Penderecki, André Previn, Wolfgang Rihm,[1] John Williams and others.
Mutter has received numerous awards and prizes, including four Grammy Awards (1993, 1998, 1999, and 2004), Echo Klassik awards (2009, 2014), a Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (2007), the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2009), France's Legion of Honour (2009), Japan's Praemium Imperiale (2019), the Polar Music Prize (2019), and holds honorary memberships at the Royal Academy of Music (1986) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2013).
Early life
Mutter was born in the German town of Rheinfelden, Baden-Württemberg which lies some 15 kilometres (9 mi) east of Basel on the northern bank of the High Rhine river, across which lies the Swiss town of the same name. Her parents were Karl Wilhelm Mutter and Gerlinde Mutter and she was raised with two older brothers. While Mutter's father was a journalist, who edited a newspaper in Baden-Württemberg, her mother was the first woman in her family to graduate from college. Although no one in her family played a musical instrument, Mutter's family was passionate about classical music.[2]
Mutter began playing the piano at the age of five, and shortly afterwards took up the violin. At the age of six, Mutter won the National Music Prize, and in 1972, she gave her first concert with the Winterthurer Stadtorchester.[3] Inspired by a recording of violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Wilhelm Furtwängler, she began studying with Erna Honigberger, a pupil of Carl Flesch. After Honigberger's death in 1974, she continued her studies with Aida Stucki at the Winterthur Conservatory.[4]
Career
1970s
Mutter's playing began to receive attention and she stopped attending school to devote herself full-time to music. Conductor Herbert von Karajan arranged for her to play with the Berlin Philharmonic. Only 13 years old at the time, she made her public debut on stage in 1976 at the Lucerne Festival, where she played Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major. In 1977, she performed at the Salzburg Festival and with the English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Critics praised the level of maturity in Mutter's performance, with one reviewer of Die Welt writing, "“She played it ravishingly, and above all, she did not play it at all like a child prodigy. Her technique is fully mature.”[5] At 15, Mutter made her first recording of the Mozart Third and Fifth violin concerti with Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic.[4]
1980s
Mutter started to perform outside Europe in the early 1980s. In 1980, Mutter made her American debut with the New York Philharmonic playing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto under Zubin Mehta. That same year she also made her debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra performing Beethoven's Romance in G major and Mozart's Third Violin Concerto under Georg Solti, and her debut with the National Symphony Orchestra playing Mozart's Third Violin Concerto under Mstislav Rostropovich.[6][7] The following year Mutter made her debut at Carnegie Hall playing Mozart's Fifth Violin Concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Riccardo Muti,[8] and made her debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra performing Bruch's Violin Concerto under Seiji Ozawa in 1983.[9] Mutter's Japanese debut was in Tokyo (1981) with the Berlin Philharmonic under Karajan, followed by her Russian debut in Moscow (1985).[10]
After three years of her debut with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1980, in which she played Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto under Claudio Abbado, Mutter was named the honorary President of Oxford University's Mozart Society.[11][12] In 1985, at the age of 22, she was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Music (London) and head of its faculty of international violin studies and in 1986 an honorary member.[13]
Beginning in the late 1980s, Mutter expanded her repertoire and devoted herself more to contemporary works, a focus that would become a significant component of her career. In 1986, Mutter premiered Witold Lutosławski's Chain 2, Dialogue for Violin and Orchestra, with the Zurich Collegium Musicum.[14] Norbert Moret composed his Violin Concert En rêve for Mutter in 1988.[15] The same year, she made a grand tour of Canada and the United States, performing as a soloist with orchestras[16][17] and giving solo recitals with pianist Lambert Orkis. Mutter premiered music by Krzysztof Penderecki and André Previn and performed classic works such as Beethoven's Violin Concerto and violin sonatas by Beethoven, Brahms, Franck, and Tartini.[18][19][20][21]
1990s
By the 1990s, Mutter had established herself as an international star, transitioning from Wunderkind to mature artist.[22][23] The press described her as a "master of the violin" and "musician of near peerless virtuosity and unimpeachable integrity," with critics noting her glamorous image.[24][25][26] One author of Der Spiegel wrote in regards to Mutter’s rise to fame: "In the meantime, the entire classical music world knows these tones and this musical master: Anne-Sophie Mutter, now 25, is probably the only world star made in Germany in today’s instrumentalist trade and the first violinist from [Germany] who can keep up with the world's violin standard. After Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's flight of fancy, no other serious musician from Germany - gender notwithstanding - has succeeded in rising more quickly from the first floor to the penthouse of the international guild of interpreters. In her line of work she is at the top: Frau Fiddler on the roof."[27]
In the 1990s, Mutter premiered Wolfgang Rihm’s Gesungene Zeit (1992), Sebastian Currier’s Aftersong (1994) and Krzysztof Penderecki's Violin Concert No. 2 Metamorphosen (1995).[28] That same decade, Mutter released some of her best-selling albums, including Carmen Fantasie with James Levine and the Vienna Philharmonic (1993) and Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic (recorded in 1984, published in 1994) and another Vivald's Four Seasons album with the Trondheim Soloists (1999).[29][30]
In 1998 she played and recorded for CD and DVD the complete set of Beethoven's Violin Sonatas (relaesed 1999), accompanied by Lambert Orkis; these were broadcast on television in many countries. Mutter devoted an entire year to performing all ten of Beethoven's violin sonatas in the "Beethoven: Face to Face" tour in cities throughout North America and Europe, including additional modern pieces.[31][32] Music critic Anthony Tommasini of the New York Times wrote on a concert of the Beethoven tour, "Ms. Mutter's playing had its trademark qualities: rich yet focused tone, striking varieties of sound, articulate yet supple rhythmic play. But her increasing work in recent years with living composers has brought a new kind of intellectual energy to her playing, for she was particularly attentive to the bold turns in this youthful music."[33]
2000s
With the turn of the century, Mutter continued supporting new music and began collaborating with composer and conductor André Previn, who dedicated several works to Mutter. Mutter premiered a Tango Song and Dance in 2002, which Previn composed for her.[34] Mutter also gave the first permanence and recording of Previn’s Violin Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra the same year.[35] Mutter toured with orchestras under the direction of Previn, performing his concerto and later premiering Previn’s double concerto for violin and contrabass in 2007 with Roman Patkolò.[36] Two years later, she premiered his Second Piano Trio with Lynn Harrell and Previn and Concerto for Violin and Viola with Yuri Bashmet.[37][38] Other contemporary works dedicated to Mutter that she premiered included Henri Dutilleux’s Nocturne for violin and orchestra Sur le même accord (2002) under Kurt Masur conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Sofia Gubaidulina’s violin concerto (2007) under Sir Simon Rattle with the Berlin Philharmonic.[39][40][41]
For Mozart's 250th Anniversary from 2005 to 2006, Mutter toured throughout Europe, North America, and Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, performing Mozart's complete Violin Concertos, the Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra and complete Piano Trios. Mutter performed with Lambert Orkis and André Previn as pianists. Five DVD and CD recordings containing the works performed on tour and the complete Violin sonatas of Mozart were released.[42][43]
In October 2006, on French television, Mutter appeared to indicate that she would be retiring when she turned 45, in 2008.[44] However the following month she said that her words were "misinterpreted" and that she would continue to play as long as she felt she could "bring anything new, anything important, anything different to music".[45]
Repertoire
Though her repertoire includes many classical works, Mutter is particularly known for her performances of contemporary music. Several pieces have been specially written for or dedicated to her, including Henri Dutilleux's Sur le même accord, Krzysztof Penderecki's Second Violin Concerto, Witold Lutosławski's Chain 2 and the orchestral version of Partita, and Wolfgang Rihm's Gesungene Zeit ("Time Chant"), Lichtes Spiel, and Dyade. In August 2007, she premiered Sofia Gubaidulina's Violin Concerto No. 2 "In tempus praesens." Her ex husband, conductor and composer André Previn, dedicated his Violin Concerto "Anne-Sophie" (2001) to her; they recorded the pièce with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2003 and were awarded a Grammy for the recording in 2005.[46]
World renowned film score composer and five times Academy Awards winner John Williams composed original music for her, including a pièce for violin, strings and harp called "Markings" (2017), a collection of arrangements of movie themes composed by him for violin and orchestra (recorded by Mutter and Williams with the Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles in "Across the Stars", 2019[47]) and Williams' second violin concerto (composed 2021, to be recorded by Mutter with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the author as conductor, in 2022[48]). Mutter also appeared as soloist in John Williams' debut concert with the Wiener Philharmoniker on 28 and 29 January 2020, recorded by Deutsche Grammophon and released in the live album "John Williams in Vienna", which became the best-selling album of orchestral music in 2020.[49]
She has received various prizes, including several Grammys throughout her career and the Polar Music Prize and the Praemium Imperiale, both in 2019.[50][51]
Appearance
Mutter is known for performing in strapless gowns. Mutter explained that she felt having fabric on her shoulder made it too slippery to hold her violin firmly while she was playing.[52][53]
Instruments
She owns two Stradivarius violins: the Emiliani of 1703, and the Lord Dunn-Raven Stradivarius of 1710.[54][55] She also owns a Finnigan-Klaembt dated 1999 and a Regazzi dated 2005.[56]
Public engagement
Throughout her career, Mutter has held many benefit concerts for various organizations such as Save the Children Japan, Save the Children Yemen, Artists against Aids, the Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Hanna and Paul Gräb Foundation’s Haus der Diakonie in Wehr-Öflingen, the Bruno Bloch Foundation, Beethoven Fund for Deaf Children, SOS Children’s Villages in Syria and others.[57] Since March 2022, Mutter has been giving benefit concerts for Ukrainians in light of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[58]
Mutter founded the Association of Friends of the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation e.V. in 1997 and further established the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation in 2008, which supports young stringed instrument players and provides scholarships for talented individuals. [59] In 2021, Anne-Sophie Mutter was elected president of the German Cancer Aid.[60]
Personal life
In 1989, Mutter married her first husband, Detlef Wunderlich, with whom she had two children, Arabella and Richard. Wunderlich died of cancer in 1995.[61] She dedicated her 1999 recording, Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, to his memory.[62] She married the pianist, composer, and conductor André Previn in 2002.[63][64] The couple divorced in 2006,[65] but continued to collaborate musically and maintained their friendship.[66]
Awards and recognition
- Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance:
- Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambert Orkis for Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas (Nos. 1–3, Op. 12; Nos. 1–3, Op. 30; "Spring" Sonata) (2000)
- Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra):
- Anne-Sophie Mutter and André Previn (conductor) for Previn: Violin Concerto "Anne-Sophie"/Bernstein: Serenade (2005)
- Anne-Sophie Mutter, Krzysztof Penderecki (conductor) and the London Symphony Orchestra for Penderecki: Violin Concerto No. 2, Metamorphosen (1999)
- Anne-Sophie Mutter, James Levine (conductor) and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Berg: Violin Concerto/Rihm: Time Chant (1994)
- Naming of Anne-Sophie-Mutter-Weg in Wehr, Baden-Württemberg (Eng: Anne-Sophie Mutter way) (27 August 1988)[67]
- Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg (1999)
- Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art (1999)[68]
- Sonning Award (2001; Denmark)
- Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (2002)
- Herbert von Karajan Music Prize (Baden-Baden, 2003)[69]
- Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2005)
- Victoires de la Musique Classique (2006)
- Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (2007)[70]
- Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (2008)
- Mendelssohn Prize (Music category) (Leipzig, 2008)
- Merit Cross 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse) (2009)
- Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur (France, 2009) for her commitment to the works of contemporary music by French
- Echo Klassik as Instrumentalist (2009)
- European St. Ulrichs Prize (July 2009)
- Doctor Honoris Causa from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (2010)[71]
- Prize of the Cultural Foundation of Dortmund
- Brahms Prize (Brahms Society of Schleswig-Holstein, 2011)
- Atlantic Council Distinguished Artistic Leadership Award (2012)[72]
- Bavarian Order of Merit
- Cultural Honour of the City of Munich
- Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music
- Erich Fromm Prize for her comprehensive social work (2011)[73]
- Gustav Adolf Prize of Gustav-Adolf-Werk of the Evangelical Church in Hesse-Nassau for her socially diaconal commitment[74]
- The Medal of the Lutosławski Centennial (25 January 2013)[75]
- Named a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (April 2013)[76]
- Echo Klassik 2014 for the album 'Dvořák'[77]
- Named an Honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxford[78]
- 11th Yehudi Menuhin Prize from the Foundation Albeniz (2016)[79]
- Medalla de Oro al Merito en las bellas Artes (2016)[80]
- Romanian Cultural Order of Merit with the rank of Grand Officer (2017)
- Gold Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis (2018)[81]
- Polar Music Prize (2019)[50]
- Berliner Bär (BZ-Cultural Prize) (2019)
- Praemium Imperiale (2019)[51]
- Cultural Award of Baden-Württemberg (2020)[82]
- Opus Klassik, Category Instrumentalist (Violin) for Across the Stars (2020)
- Honorary Degree Of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków (2022)[83]
Discography
- Mozart Violin Concertos Nos. 3 & 5 (1978)
- Beethoven Triple Concerto (1980)
- Beethoven Violin Concerto (1980)
- Mendelssohn Violin Concerto / Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 (1981)
- Brahms Violin Concerto(1982)
- Brahms Double Concerto (1983)
- Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (1988)
- Lutosławski Partita & Chain 2 / Stravinsky Violin Concerto (1988)
- Beethoven: The String Trios (1989)
- Bartok Violin Concerto No. 2 / Moret En Rêve (1991)
- Berg Violin Concerto / Rihm Time Chant (1992)
- Carmen-Fantasy (1993)
- Romance (1995)
- Sibelius Violin Concerto (1995)
- The Berlin Recital (1996)
- Brahms Violin Concerto / Schumann Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra (1997)
- Penderecki Violin Concerto No. 2 / Bartok Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 (1997)
- Beethoven The Violin Sonatas (1998)
- Vivaldi The Four Seasons (1999)
- Recital 2000 (2000)
- Lutosławski Partita for Violin and Orchestra / Chain 2 (2002)
- Beethoven Violin Concerto (2002)
- Tango Song and Dance (2003)
- Previn Violin Concerto / Bernstein Serenade (2003)
- Tchaikovsky & Korngold Violin Concertos (2004)
- Dutilleux Sur le même accord / Bartok Violin Concerto No. 2 / Stravinsky Concerto en ré (2005)
- Mozart The Violin Concertos (2005)
- Mozart Piano Trios K502, K542, K548 (2006)
- Mozart The Violin Sonatas (August 2006)
- Simply Anne-Sophie (2006)
- Gubaidulina in tempus praesens (2008)
- Mendelssohn Violin Concerto (2009)
- Brahms Violin Sonatas (2010)
- Rihm: Lichtes Spiel; Currier: Time Machines (2011)
- The Complete Musician: Highlights (2011)
- Asm 35: The Complete Musician (2011)
- Dvořák: Violin Concerto (2013)
- The Silver Album (2014)
- Anne-Sophie Mutter Live: The Club Album from Yellow Lounge (2015)
- Mutterissimo: The Art of Anne-Sophie Mutter (2016)
- Franz Schubert: Trout Quintett(with Daniil Trifonov, Maximilian Hornung, Hwayoon Lee, und Roman Patkaló)(2017)
- Hommage à Penderecki (2018)
- The Early Years (2018)
- The Tokyo Gala Concert (2019)
- “Hedwig’s Theme” from Harry Potter (2019)
- Across the Stars (2019) (Works of John Williams; Direction: John Williams)
- "Remembrances" & "Markings" (2019)
- Beethoven Triple Concerto & Symphony 7 (with Barenboim and Yo-Yo Ma) (2020)
- John Williams in Vienna (2020)
- Williams, Violin Concerto No. 2 & Selected Film Themes (2022)
- Mozart Violin Concertos Nos. 2 & 4 (1982)
- Bach Violin Concertos / Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra (1983)
- Brahms Violin Sonatas (1983)
- Vivaldi The Four Seasons (1984)
- Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole / Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen (1985)
- Mozart Violin Concerto No. 1, Sinfonia Concertante (1991)
- Meditation: Vivaldi, Mozart, Massenet, Sarasate (1995)
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