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Anne-Sophie Mutter: Germany's Glamour Violinist |
| Section: THE ARTS / MUSIC |
| Author: Tom Pniewski |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1989 |
| Size: 2,139 Words, 12,667 Characters |
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"The greatest youthful talent since Yehudi Menuhin." "A violinist who sets new standards of performance." The publicity comments were predictable, but the authors were not: Herbert von Karajan and Mstislav Rostropovich. Anne-Sophie Mutter, the talent under discussion, who made her Carnegie Hall recital debut at the end of 1988, is far from a predictable phenomenon.
A concert violinist who began her collaboration with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and its conductor, Karajan, at fourteen, she is perhaps best known to the American public from posters showing her performing in a strapless Dior gown, her long blond hair loose about her bare shoulders. To managers, she's known as a talent who can fill any hall. To her musical colleagues and critics, she is already one of the great masters of the instrument.
Mutter was born in a small town in southwest Germany in 1963, and began piano lessons at the age of five. Soon she switched to the violin, and her parents enrolled her in the Winterthur Conservatory in Switzerland. By the time she was seven, Mutter had won the highest acclaim ever given in a nationwide youth competition. On the same occasion, she and her brother Christoph shared a prize in the piano four-hands category.
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...t of this may well be the audience's fault, as a group still unused to her and unaccustomed to her dynamic presence. We too may have to grow with her over the years, hear more of her, attend concerts over time, study her expressive language in order to more clearly hear what she is trying to communicate. But, speaking as a persuaded listener, I think that is going to be a most enjoyable task.
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