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Place of Birth: Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
About Susanne Lautenbacher
- Susanne Lautenbacher (born 19 April 1932, in Augsburg) is a German violinist.
- She studied violin with the Munich-based violin pedagogue Karl Freund (first violin of the Freund Quartet) and later with Henryk Szeryng.
- 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 concertos and chamber music 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, Bach, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart including all five Violin Concertos and the Concertone K.
- 190, Beethoven including the Concerto, both Romances and the 'Spring' and 'Kreutzer' Sonatas, J.N.
- Hummel, Schubert, Rolla, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Spohr, Viotti, Brahms, Reger, Béla Bartók, Kurt Weill, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Hans Pfitzner, Hans Werner Henze, Hans Schaeuble, Giorgio Federico Ghedini (Concerto dell'albatro) and Bernd Alois Zimmermann.
- She also made numerous concert appearances, especially with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, Heilbronn, conducted by Jörg Faerber.
- 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 Eva Schorr.
- She also performed regularly in chamber music, principally with the Bell'Arte Trio (Stuttgart), Ulrich Koch (viola), Thomas Blees then Martin Ostertag (cello), and the pianist Martin Galling.
- 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.
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