Marie-Luise Neunecker
German horn player and professor
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Marie Luise Neunecker (born 17 July 1955) is a German horn player and professor at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler".
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Marie Luise Neunecker | |
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Neunecker in 2011 | |
| Born | 17 July 1955 |
| Education | Hochschule für Musik Köln |
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| Organizations | Frankfurt Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" |
Professional career
Neunecker was born in Erbes-Büdesheim. She studied musicology and German studies. She completed her horn studies with Erich Penzel at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. In 1978 she started her career at the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt as second horn. In 1979 she was appointed principal horn with the Bamberg Symphony, and from 1981 to 1989 she held the same position with the hr-Sinfonieorchester. She has appeared as a soloist with various orchestras worldwide, and is also active as a chamber music player.
In 1986 she won first prize at the Concert Artists Guild international competition in New York.[1]
In 1988 she was appointed professor at the Frankfurt Academy of Music and Performing Arts, and in 2004 she was appointed professor of horn at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler".[2]
Volker David Kirchner dedicated his Orfeo for baritone, horn and piano on poems from Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus to her, premiered on 6 May 1988 in Karlsruhe with Hermann Becht and Nina Tichman.[3]
György Ligeti dedicated to her his Hamburg Concerto, which she premiered on 20 January 2001 in Hamburg with the Asko Ensemble.[4] She also recorded the work for Teldec's Ligeti Project series.[5][6][7]
Recordings include works by Britten, Hindemith, Mozart and Richard Strauss and also lesser known repertory, such as horn concertos by Reinhold Glière, Paul Hindemith,[8] Othmar Schoeck, and Vissarion Shebalin; three works for horn and piano by Alexander Glazunov; Poème by Charles Koechlin; and the concerto for violin, horn and orchestra by Ethel Smyth.[9][10]
She has served on the jury of The Aeolus International Competition for Wind Instruments.[11]
Discography
Concertante works
Chamber music
| Year | Composer | Work | Ensemble | Format: Record label Catalogue number |
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| ? | W.A. Mozart | Quintet for horn and strings, KV 407 | Mannheimer String Quartet | Audio CD: Novalis Cat: 150 006-2 |
| 1993 | Alexander Glazunov | Reverie, Serenade, Idyll for horn and piano | Paul Rivinius (piano) | Audio CD: Koch/Schwann Cat: 3-1357-2 H1[10] |
| 1996 | György Ligeti | Trio for violin, horn and piano | Saschko Gawriloff (violin) Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano) | Audio CD: Sony Classical Cat: SK62309[14] |
| 1996 | Johannes Brahms | Trio for piano, violin and horn in E Flat, Op.40 | Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano) | Audio CD: EMI Classics Cat: CDC556385 |