Misplaced Pages

Marie Luise Neunecker
Neunecker in 2011
Born	(1955-07-17) 17 July 1955 (age 69) Erbes-Büdesheim
Education	Hochschule für Musik Köln
Occupations	Hornist Academic teacher
Organizations	Frankfurt Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler"

Marie Luise Neunecker (born 17 July 1955) is a German horn player and professor at the 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 [de] 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.

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".

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.

György Ligeti dedicated to her his Hamburg Concerto, which she premiered on 20 January 2001 in Hamburg with the Asko Ensemble. She also recorded the work for Teldec's Ligeti Project series.

Recordings include works by Britten, Hindemith, Mozart and Richard Strauss and also lesser known repertory, such as horn concertos by Reinhold Glière, Paul Hindemith, 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.

She has served on the jury of The Aeolus International Competition for Wind Instruments [de].

Discography

Concertante works

Chamber music

• Neunecker, Marie Luise; Weithaas, Antje; Avenhaus, Silke; Brahms, Johannes; Aho, Kalevi; Ligeti, György (2011), Horn trios (in no linguistic content), Åkersberga, Sweden: BIS, OCLC 811642726

Notes

1. "Past competition winners". Concert Artists Guild. 2010. Archived from the original on 20 August 2007. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
2. "Marie Luise Neunecker". Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler". 2010. Archived from the original on 4 December 2010. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
3. "Orfeo". Schott Music (in German). Retrieved 17 December 2023.
4. "Hamburgisches Konzert". Schott Music (in German). Retrieved 17 December 2023.
5. "The Ligeti Project". Warner Classics. 2 May 2003. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
6. Andrew Clements (2 May 2003). "Ligeti: Hamburg Concerto; Double Concerto; Ramifications; Requiem". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 18 July 2010. The solo horn part in the Hamburg Concerto is mind-bogglingly difficult, yet Marie-Louise Neunecker makes light of every challenge.
7. Ligeti, György; Stein, Caroline; Reisen, Margriet van; Zoon, Jacques; Holliger, Heinz; Neunecker, Marie Luise; Leeuw, Reinbert de; Nott, Jonathan; London Voices; Asko Ensemble; Schönberg-Ensemble; Berliner Philharmoniker; University of York Department of Music (2003), The Ligeti project IV, Hamburg: Teldec Classics, OCLC 1139882005
8. ^ "Hindemith: Complete Orchestral Works Vol 3". ArkivMusic. 2001. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
9. ^ Rob Barnett (1999). "Three Works for French Horn and Orchestra". musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
10. ^ Rob Barnett (2000). "Russian Horn Concertos". musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
11. "Marie-Luise Neunecker". The Aeolus International Competition. 2007. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2010.
12. Rob Barnett (1999). "Max Reger Edition – Orchestral Works". musicweb-international.com. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
13. Britten, Benjamin; Bostridge, Ian; Neunecker, Marie Luise; Metzmacher, Ingo; Harding, Daniel; Bamberger Symphoniker; Britten Sinfonia (1999), Serenade ; Our hunting fathers, New York: EMI Classics, OCLC 840328019
14. "Marie-Luise Neunecker". grammy.com. 8 January 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2022.

Further reading

• Durch Leistung überzeugen, Spiegel Magazin
• "Die Hornistin Marie-Luise Neunecker". Deutschlandfunk (in German). 4 February 2017. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
• "Kronberg Academy: Marie-Luise Neunecker". Kronberg Academy (in German). Retrieved 17 December 2023.

External links

• "Marie-Luise Neunecker". Astrid Schoerke (DE) (in German). 11 November 2003. Retrieved 17 December 2023.

• German classical horn players
• German women academics
• Living people
• 1955 births
• People from Alzey-Worms
• Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln alumni
• 20th-century German women musicians
• 20th-century German classical musicians
• 21st-century German women musicians
• 21st-century classical musicians
• 21st-century German musicians
• Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin
• Women horn players