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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.
The Concerto for Violin and Orchestra "Anne-Sophie" is a violin concerto by André Previn. It was composed in 2001 by request of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for Anne-Sophie Mutter. Previn conducted the first performance in March 2002 in Boston. The same performers recorded the work in 2003, and received a Grammy Award for it in 2005.
Its vigour can be put down to experience of course, a sense of having less to prove perhaps, but it also responds to Mutter's own dexterity and skill with an instrument the composer frankly adores. It's a hugely expressive, deeply atmospheric four-movement work and, like all his concertos, quite far removed from the thematic narrative music we ...
Anne-Sophie Mutter playing the Lord Dunn-Raven Stradivarius. The Lord Dunn–Raven Stradivarius of 1710 is an antique violin made by luthier Antonio Stradivari of Cremona (1644–1737). [1] It is one of 700 known existent Stradivari instruments. This violin is currently owned by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.
Since 2014, she joined the 'Mutter Virtuosi' of Anne-Sophie Mutter, who became her mentor since 2015. Wildschut does masterclasses and lessons with violinist and conductor Jaap van Zweden , violinists Frank Peter Zimmermann and Liviu Prunaru , pianist Menahem Pressler and cellist Anner Bijlsma . [ 1 ]
She won several important prizes (the Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hanover), [2] and a grant from the Free State of Bavaria in 2001, then became a student of Anne-Sophie Mutter's Freundeskreis ("Circle of friends").
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Alma Elizabeth Deutscher (born 19 February 2005) is a British composer, pianist, violinist and conductor. A former child prodigy, Deutscher composed her first piano sonata at the age of five; at seven, she completed the short opera, The Sweeper of Dreams, and later wrote a violin concerto at age nine.