Renate Eggebrecht
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Renate Eggebrecht is a German violinist and record producer.
Born in Selent
, Schleswig-Holstein
, Germany
, Eggebrecht received her initial musical training from her mother, starting at the age of four. At the age of seven she became a pupil of Hans Hilf, who had studied in the master class of Walther Davisson
at the Leipzig Conservatory. From the age of twelve Renate Eggebrecht studied violin with Friedrich Wührer and piano with Wilhelm Rau at the Lübeck College of Music. She continued her training at the Munich College of Music. Subsequently she devoted herself to private studies, attending master classes with Max Rostal, Seymion Snitkovsky and chamber music
courses with the LaSalle Quartet
.
In 1986 Renate Eggebrecht founded the Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet with which she gave the premiere in Munich of Fanny Mendelssohn
-Hensel’s Piano Quartet in A-flat Major (1822) and String Quartet in E-flat Major (1834).
In 1988 she published the first editions of these chamber music works (Furore Verlag, Kassel), also producing the world-premiere CD, recorded by her ensemble, in a co-production with the Bavarian Radio.
In order to publicize unknown and forgotten music, Renate Eggebrecht founded the music production firm of Troubadisc as a label for Classical music
in 1991. For this label she made world premiere CD recordings of chamber music by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Ethel Smyth
, Germaine Tailleferre
, Grażyna Bacewicz
and other women composers.
In 1993 Renate Eggebrecht produced the complete songs of the French composer and pedagogue Nadia Boulanger
, their first release on CD, and similarly the instrumental and piano songs of Ethel Smyth in 1997. Besides Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel’s chamber music, Eggebrecht also produced the composer’s songs in 2001, and in 1998, with the pianist Wolfram Lorenzen
, the piano cycle Das Jahr ("The Year") based on the composer’s fair copy as a CD world premiere.
With her ensemble, Eggebrecht recorded Darius Milhaud
’s String Quartets nos. 1-8 for CD in 1994-5, as well as his works Machine agricoles op. 56 and Catalogue de Fleurs op. 60, all for the Troubadisc label. This label also issued CD recordings by the Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet of the two large string quartets by Arthur Bliss
in 1996.
In 1997, together with the German pianist Wolfram Lorenzen, Eggebrecht was able to present the CD recordings, in three volumes, of Edition Max Reger’s Piano Chamber Music. She subsequently devoted herself to recording Max Reger
’s complete works for violin solo, which she presented in 2003 as a production of the Troubadisc label, a first in the history of recorded sound. As a whole, this five-CD edition of Max Reger’s complete works for violin solo, ranging from op. 42 (1899) to op. 131a and posthumous works (1916), is a world premiere.
Eggebrecht has contributed greatly as a chamber musician to the discovery of worthwhile music by neglected composers. In 2000 she issued, together with the cellist Friedemann Kupsa
, the world premiere recording of the Sonata for violin and violoncello (1947) by the Greek Schoenberg pupil Nikos Skalkottas, and the Sonatina op. 324 by Darius Milhaud. With Friedemann Kupsa she presented in 2002 the world premiere of the Duo-Sonata (1985) by the Romanian avant-garde composer Anatol Vieru
and the Strassenmusik No 16, op. 210 (2001) by the Greek composer Dimitri Nicolau
. The latter work is dedicated to the Duo Eggebrecht/Kupsa.
Her experience with the music of the twentieth century in the area of chamber music provided Renate Eggebrecht with excellent prerequisites for dealing with the new expressive possibilities of the violin as a solo instrument. In order to make available to the listening public the compositions for violin alone that were written from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day, the violinist and producer Renate Eggebrecht initiated the edition "Violin Solo" in 2002; volume 1 included the world premiere recording of the Sonata op. 61 by Johanna Senfter
, a pupil of Max Reger.
In 2006 Troubadisc released the second album of this series with the violinist Renate Eggebrecht, this time with two world premieres: the Sonatina op. 383 by Darius Milhaud, and the Sonata in Greek Mood, op. 228 (2002) by Dimitri Nicolau. The latter work is dedicated to Renate Eggebrecht.
In 2007 the third album released with the complete recording of the works for violin solo (1916–1925) by Paul Hindemith together with the world premiere recordings of the Capriccio (1997) by Anatol Vieru and the Partita (1976) by the Russian minimalist Vladimir Martynov.
In 2008 Renate Eggebrecht released the fourth album of the series "Violin Solo" with the Suite No.1 and No.2 (1958) by Ernest Bloch, the "Élégie" (1944) by Igor Stravinsky, the "Four Caprices" (1968) by Grażyna Bacewicz, the "Sonata-Monologue" (1975) by Aram Khachaturian and the work "a paganini" (1982) by Alfred Schnittke for Troubadisc.
In 2010 the violinist released the fifth solo album with recordings of the Sonata op. 115 (1947) by Sergey Prokofiev, the ‘Sonata fantasia’(1928/29) by Ljubica Marić, the Caprice No. 1 (1949)and the world premiere recordings of the Caprice No. 2 (1952) and the Sonata (1941) by Grażyna Bacewicz, also the Sonata (1962) and the Suite of Estonian Dance Tunes for solo violin (1978) by Eduard Tubin and the world premiere recording of the Sonata (1978) by Edison Denisov.
Renate Eggebrecht presents therewith the complete recording of the works for Solo Violin by Grażyna Bacewicz.
With the fifth SACD, a sequence of works, beginning with Max Reger’s Chaconne op. 117, no. 4 (1909) and extending to the present day, already becomes evident. A compendium of the modern violin literature is presented with violin sonatas by the German Johanna Senfter, the Czech Erwin Schulhoff, the Frenchman Darius Milhaud, the Swiss Arthur Honegger, the Hungarian Béla Bartók, the Greek Nikos Skalkottas, the Pole Grażyna Bacewicz, the Greek-Italian Dimitri Nicolau the German Paul Hindemith, as well as solo works by the Romanian Anatol Vieru and the Russians Vladimir Martynov, Igor Stravinsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Alfred Schnittke and Edison Denisov, the American Ernest Bloch and the Armenian Aram Khachaturian, the Serbian Ljubica Marić, as well as the Estonian Eduard Tubin.
Renate Eggebrecht’s violin is a Stradivarius
copy by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume from 1858; her favorite bow is by Jules Fétique.
Selent
Selent is a municipality in the district of Plön, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated at the southern bank of Selenter See...
, Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein
Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the sixteen states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, Eggebrecht received her initial musical training from her mother, starting at the age of four. At the age of seven she became a pupil of Hans Hilf, who had studied in the master class of Walther Davisson
Walther Davisson
Walther Davisson was a German violinist and conductor,Davisson was born in Frankfurt am Main. He studied in Frankfurt at the Hoch Conservatory from 1900 to 1906 with Johann Naret-Koning and Adolf Rebner, in whose string quartet he played second violin from 1906 to 1913. He also taught violin in...
at the Leipzig Conservatory. From the age of twelve Renate Eggebrecht studied violin with Friedrich Wührer and piano with Wilhelm Rau at the Lübeck College of Music. She continued her training at the Munich College of Music. Subsequently she devoted herself to private studies, attending master classes with Max Rostal, Seymion Snitkovsky and chamber music
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
courses with the LaSalle Quartet
LaSalle Quartet
The LaSalle Quartet was a string quartet active from 1946 to 1987. It was founded by first violinist Walter Levin. The quartet played on a donated set of Amati instruments....
.
In 1986 Renate Eggebrecht founded the Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet with which she gave the premiere in Munich of Fanny Mendelssohn
Fanny Mendelssohn
Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn , later Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer, the sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn and granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn...
-Hensel’s Piano Quartet in A-flat Major (1822) and String Quartet in E-flat Major (1834).
In 1988 she published the first editions of these chamber music works (Furore Verlag, Kassel), also producing the world-premiere CD, recorded by her ensemble, in a co-production with the Bavarian Radio.
In order to publicize unknown and forgotten music, Renate Eggebrecht founded the music production firm of Troubadisc as a label for Classical music
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...
in 1991. For this label she made world premiere CD recordings of chamber music by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Ethel Smyth
Ethel Smyth
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE was an English composer and a leader of the women's suffrage movement.- Early career :...
, Germaine Tailleferre
Germaine Tailleferre
Germaine Tailleferre was a French composer and the only female member of the famous composers' group Les Six.-Biography:...
, Grażyna Bacewicz
Grazyna Bacewicz
Grażyna Bacewicz was a Polish composer and violinist. She is only the second Polish female composer to have achieved national and international recognition, the first being Maria Szymanowska in the early 19th century.- Life :Bacewicz was born in Łódź...
and other women composers.
In 1993 Renate Eggebrecht produced the complete songs of the French composer and pedagogue Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger
Nadia Boulanger was a French composer, conductor and teacher who taught many composers and performers of the 20th century.From a musical family, she achieved early honours as a student at the Paris Conservatoire, but believing that her talent as a composer was inferior to that of her younger...
, their first release on CD, and similarly the instrumental and piano songs of Ethel Smyth in 1997. Besides Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel’s chamber music, Eggebrecht also produced the composer’s songs in 2001, and in 1998, with the pianist Wolfram Lorenzen
Wolfram Lorenzen
Wolfram Lorenzen is a German pianist.Wolfram Lorenzen studied with Klaus Linder, Ludwig Hoffmann, Paul Badura-Skoda and participated in masterclasses held by Wilhelm Kempff, amon others...
, the piano cycle Das Jahr ("The Year") based on the composer’s fair copy as a CD world premiere.
With her ensemble, Eggebrecht recorded Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud
Darius Milhaud was a French composer and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as The Group of Six—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His compositions are influenced by jazz and make use of polytonality...
’s String Quartets nos. 1-8 for CD in 1994-5, as well as his works Machine agricoles op. 56 and Catalogue de Fleurs op. 60, all for the Troubadisc label. This label also issued CD recordings by the Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet of the two large string quartets by Arthur Bliss
Arthur Bliss
Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, CH, KCVO was an English composer and conductor.Bliss's musical training was cut short by the First World War, in which he served with distinction in the army...
in 1996.
In 1997, together with the German pianist Wolfram Lorenzen, Eggebrecht was able to present the CD recordings, in three volumes, of Edition Max Reger’s Piano Chamber Music. She subsequently devoted herself to recording Max Reger
Max Reger
Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger was a German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher.-Life:...
’s complete works for violin solo, which she presented in 2003 as a production of the Troubadisc label, a first in the history of recorded sound. As a whole, this five-CD edition of Max Reger’s complete works for violin solo, ranging from op. 42 (1899) to op. 131a and posthumous works (1916), is a world premiere.
Eggebrecht has contributed greatly as a chamber musician to the discovery of worthwhile music by neglected composers. In 2000 she issued, together with the cellist Friedemann Kupsa
Friedemann Kupsa
Friedemann Kupsa is an Austrian Cellist.Friedemann Kupsa studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Vienna, and attended masterclasses with Daniil Shafran and the La Salle Quartet...
, the world premiere recording of the Sonata for violin and violoncello (1947) by the Greek Schoenberg pupil Nikos Skalkottas, and the Sonatina op. 324 by Darius Milhaud. With Friedemann Kupsa she presented in 2002 the world premiere of the Duo-Sonata (1985) by the Romanian avant-garde composer Anatol Vieru
Anatol Vieru
Anatol Vieru was a music theoretician, influential pedagogue, and a leading Romanian-Jewish composer of the 20th century. A pupil of Aram Khachaturian, he composed seven symphonies, eight string quartets, numerous concertos, and much chamber music. He also wrote three operas: Iona , Praznicul...
and the Strassenmusik No 16, op. 210 (2001) by the Greek composer Dimitri Nicolau
Dimitri Nicolau
Dimitri Nicolau was a composer, stage director, conductor, musicologist, writer and professor. He was born in Keratea, Greece and became a naturalized citizen of Italy...
. The latter work is dedicated to the Duo Eggebrecht/Kupsa.
Her experience with the music of the twentieth century in the area of chamber music provided Renate Eggebrecht with excellent prerequisites for dealing with the new expressive possibilities of the violin as a solo instrument. In order to make available to the listening public the compositions for violin alone that were written from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day, the violinist and producer Renate Eggebrecht initiated the edition "Violin Solo" in 2002; volume 1 included the world premiere recording of the Sonata op. 61 by Johanna Senfter
Johanna Senfter
Johanna Senfter was a German composer.Johanna Senfter was born and died in Oppenheim. From 1885 she studied composition under Knorr, violin under Rebner, piano under Friedberg and organ at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main. This gave her a considerable amount of musical training when in...
, a pupil of Max Reger.
In 2006 Troubadisc released the second album of this series with the violinist Renate Eggebrecht, this time with two world premieres: the Sonatina op. 383 by Darius Milhaud, and the Sonata in Greek Mood, op. 228 (2002) by Dimitri Nicolau. The latter work is dedicated to Renate Eggebrecht.
In 2007 the third album released with the complete recording of the works for violin solo (1916–1925) by Paul Hindemith together with the world premiere recordings of the Capriccio (1997) by Anatol Vieru and the Partita (1976) by the Russian minimalist Vladimir Martynov.
In 2008 Renate Eggebrecht released the fourth album of the series "Violin Solo" with the Suite No.1 and No.2 (1958) by Ernest Bloch, the "Élégie" (1944) by Igor Stravinsky, the "Four Caprices" (1968) by Grażyna Bacewicz, the "Sonata-Monologue" (1975) by Aram Khachaturian and the work "a paganini" (1982) by Alfred Schnittke for Troubadisc.
In 2010 the violinist released the fifth solo album with recordings of the Sonata op. 115 (1947) by Sergey Prokofiev, the ‘Sonata fantasia’(1928/29) by Ljubica Marić, the Caprice No. 1 (1949)and the world premiere recordings of the Caprice No. 2 (1952) and the Sonata (1941) by Grażyna Bacewicz, also the Sonata (1962) and the Suite of Estonian Dance Tunes for solo violin (1978) by Eduard Tubin and the world premiere recording of the Sonata (1978) by Edison Denisov.
Renate Eggebrecht presents therewith the complete recording of the works for Solo Violin by Grażyna Bacewicz.
With the fifth SACD, a sequence of works, beginning with Max Reger’s Chaconne op. 117, no. 4 (1909) and extending to the present day, already becomes evident. A compendium of the modern violin literature is presented with violin sonatas by the German Johanna Senfter, the Czech Erwin Schulhoff, the Frenchman Darius Milhaud, the Swiss Arthur Honegger, the Hungarian Béla Bartók, the Greek Nikos Skalkottas, the Pole Grażyna Bacewicz, the Greek-Italian Dimitri Nicolau the German Paul Hindemith, as well as solo works by the Romanian Anatol Vieru and the Russians Vladimir Martynov, Igor Stravinsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Alfred Schnittke and Edison Denisov, the American Ernest Bloch and the Armenian Aram Khachaturian, the Serbian Ljubica Marić, as well as the Estonian Eduard Tubin.
Renate Eggebrecht’s violin is a Stradivarius
Stradivarius
The name Stradivarius is associated with violins built by members of the Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari. According to their reputation, the quality of their sound has defied attempts to explain or reproduce, though this belief is controversial...
copy by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume from 1858; her favorite bow is by Jules Fétique.
Discography
- Prokofiev, Marić, Bacewicz, Tubin, Denisov; works for violin solo, 2010
- Bloch, Stravinsky, Bacewicz, Khachaturian, Schnittke; works for violin solo, 2008
- Hindemith, Vieru, Martynov; works for violin solo, 2007
- Schulhoff, Bartók, Bacewicz, Milhaud, Nicolau; works for violin solo, 2006
- Reger, Senfter, Skalkottas, Honegger; works for violin solo, 2001
- Reger, complete works for violin solo opp. 42, 91, 117, 131a, posth., 1999–2002
- Kodály, Maconchy, Vieru, Nicolau; Sonatas for Violin & Violoncello, 2002
- Ravel,Milhaud, Honegger, Skalkottas; Sonatas for violin & violoncello, 2000
- Reger; Violin Sonatas, Piano Trio, Piano Quartets, Piano Quintet (Wolfram Lorenzen piano), 1996–98
- Lutyens, Dinescu, Coates; String Quartets, 1997
- Bliss; String Quartets 1995
- Milhaud; String Quartets Nr. 1-8, 1994–95
- Fanny Mendelssohn; Piano Quartet, String Quartet, Piano Trio, 1994
- Tailleferre; Violin Sonatas Nr. 1, 2, Piano Trio, String Quartet, 1992
- Bacewicz; String Quartets Nr. 4, 6, 7, 1991
- Smyth; Violin Sonata, String Quartet, String Quintet, Trio for violin, horn and piano (horn: Franz Draxinger), 1990–92
External links
- http://www.troubadisc.de/templates/tyBA_standard_level2.php?topic=Renate_Eggebrecht (Biography and discography with samples)
- http://www.troubadisc.de
- http://www.pro-classics.de
- http://www.arkivmusic.com
- CD Review on musicweb.uk.net