Artist Name
Anne-Sophie Mutter

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2003 - Brahms: Violin Concerto / Beethoven: Triple Concerto
2002 - Partita / Chain 2 / Piano Concerto
2002 - Violin Concerto / Romances
2000 - Recital 2000
1999 - Le quattro stagioni
1999 - Violin Concerti 3 & 5
1998 - Violin Concerto No. 2 "Metamorphosen"
1997 - Violin Concertos
1997 - Violinsonaten 1 - 3
1995 - Violinkonzert No. 1
1994 - Violin Concertos
1993 - Carmen - Fantasie
1993 - Violin Concerto / Double Concerto
1992 - Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole / Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen
1991 - Béla Bartók: Violinkonzert No. 2 / Norbert Moret: Un rêve
1990 - Violin Concerti
1988 - Violinkonzert D-dur Op. 35
1985 - Violin Concerto
1982 - Violin Concertos
1980 - Triple Concerto, op. 56

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Origin
Rheinfelden, Germany

Genre
Violinist

Style
Classical

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Intense

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1963

Active
1976 to Present...

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Anne-Sophie Mutter (born June 29, 1963) is a German violinist. Supported early in her career by Herbert von Karajan, she has built a strong reputation for championing contemporary music with several works being composed specially for her including by Henri Dutilleux, Krzysztof Penderecki, Witold Lutosławski, Wolfgang Rihm, and Sofia Gubaidulina.
Mutter was born in Rheinfelden, West Germany. She began playing the piano at the age of five, and shortly afterwards took up the violin, studying with Erna Honigberger, a pupil of Carl Flesch. After Honigberger's death she continued her studies with Aida Stucki at the Winterthur Conservatory.

After winning several prizes, she was exempted from school to dedicate herself to her art. When she was 13, conductor Herbert von Karajan invited her to play with the Berlin Philharmonic: she made her public debut on stage in 1976 at the Lucerne Festival, playing Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major. In 1977, she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival and with the English Chamber Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim. At 15, Mutter made her first recording of the Mozart Third and Fifth violin concerti with Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic.
In 1980, she made her American debut with the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta. 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. In 1988, she made a grand tour of Canada and the United States, playing for the first time at Carnegie Hall. In 1998 she played and recorded for CD and DVD the complete set of Beethoven's Violin Sonatas, accompanied by Lambert Orkis; these were broadcast on television in many countries.
Though her repertoire includes many classical works, Mutter is particularly known for her performances of contemporary music. A number of 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." She has received various prizes, including several Grammys. She also owns two Stradivarius violins (The Emiliani of 1703, and the Lord Dunn-Raven Stradivarius of 1710) and a Regazzi, dated 2005. Mutter does not use a shoulder rest when playing; her need for ideal traction with the violin has also led her to wear the same style of John Galliano sleeveless dress during her performances.
In October 2006, on French television, Mutter appeared to indicate that she would be retiring when she turned 45, in 2008. 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".


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