Renate Eggebrecht

Who is Renate Eggebrecht?

Renate Eggebrecht is a German violinist and record producer.

Born in Selent, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Eggebrecht received her initial musical training from her mother, starting at the age of four. At the age of seven she became a pupil of Hans Hilf, who had studied in the master class of Walther Davisson at the Leipzig Conservatory. From the age of twelve Renate Eggebrecht studied violin with Friedrich Wührer and piano with Wilhelm Rau at the Lübeck College of Music. She continued her training at the Munich College of Music. Subsequently she devoted herself to private studies with Prof. Wolfram König, attending master classes with Max Rostal, Seymion Snitkovsky and chamber music courses with the LaSalle Quartet.

In 1986 Renate Eggebrecht founded the Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet with which she gave the premiere in Munich of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel’s Piano Quartet in A-flat Major and String Quartet in E-flat Major. In 1988 she published the first editions of these chamber music works, also producing the world-premiere CD, recorded by her ensemble, in a co-production with the Bavarian Radio.

In order to publicize unknown and forgotten music, Renate Eggebrecht founded the music production firm of Troubadisc as a label for Classical music in 1991. For this label she made world premiere CD recordings of chamber music by Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Ethel Smyth, Germaine Tailleferre, Grażyna Bacewicz and other women composers.