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Renate Eggebrecht (August 12, 1944[1] – January 8, 2023) was a German violinist and record producer.

The violinist Renate Eggebrecht

Music training

Born in Selent, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Eggebrecht received her first music lessons from her mother, before she was four years old. At the age of eight, she became a pupil of Hans Hilf, who had studied in the master class of Walther Davisson at the Leipzig Conservatory. From twelve years of age, Eggebrecht studied violin with Friedrich Wührer, son of the pianist Friedrich Wührer, and piano with Wilhelm Rau at the Lübeck College of Music.[2]

Eggebrech continued her training at the Munich College of Music. She then devoted herself to private studies with Prof. Wolfram König, attended master classes with Max Rostal, Seymion Snitkovsky as well as chamber music courses with the LaSalle Quartet.

Biography

In 1986, Eggebrecht founded the Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet. On 6 March, 1988, she performed world premieres of Fanny Mendelssohn’s Piano Quartet in A-flat Major (1822), and String Quartet in E-flat Major (1834) in the Cultural Center, Gasteig in Munich.

In 1988, Eggebrecht published the first editions of these chamber music works (Furore Verlag, Kassel).

To publicize unknown and forgotten music, Eggebrecht founded the music production firm Troubadisc in 1991, as a Classical music label. She recorded world premiere CDs of chamber music by Fanny Hensel born Mendelssohn, Ethel Smyth, Germaine Tailleferre, Grażyna Bacewicz, and other women composers.

In 1993, 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 Hensel born Mendelssohn’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. In 1996, she also released CD recordings by the Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet of the two large string quartets by Arthur Bliss.

In 1997, together with the German pianist Wolfram Lorenzen, Eggebrecht published three volumes of CD recordings of Max Reger’s Piano Chamber Music. She subsequently recorded Max Reger’s complete works for violin which she completed in 2003.

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.

She published VIOLIN SOLO in 2002, beginning with Max Reger’s Chaconne op. 117, over Bach's Sei Solo and extending to the present day: A compendium of the modern violin literature.

Eggebrecht’s violin was a Stradivarius copy by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume from 1858; her favorite bow was by Jules Fétique.[citation needed]

Discography

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TROUBADISC Musicproduction [1]

References

  1. ^ Heute, Klassik. "Renate Eggebrecht". Klassik Heute (in German). Retrieved 2024-03-15.
  2. ^ "Troubadisc - Musik Label | Renate Eggebrecht, Violine". www.troubadisc.de. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
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