Susanne Lautenbacher

Who is Susanne Lautenbacher?

Susanne Lautenbacher is a German violinist. She studied violin with the Munich-based violin pedagogue Karl Freund and later with Henryk Szeryng. She was a prizewinner in the early years of the Munich ARD Violin Competition. On some early recordings her name appears as Suzanne or Susi.

Lautenbacher has made a large number of gramophone recordings, and featured in numerous recordings of concertos and chamber music between the late 1950s and early 1990s, on labels such as Vox, Turnabout, Intercord, Bärenreiter-Musicaphon, Bayer, and many others. She has recorded works by Biber, Locatelli, Bach, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart including all five Violin Concertos and the Concertone K. 190, Beethoven including the Concerto, both Romances and the 'Spring' and 'Kreutzer' Sonatas, J.N. Hummel, Schubert, Rolla, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Spohr, Viotti, Brahms, Reger, Béla Bartók, Kurt Weill, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Hans Pfitzner, Hans Werner Henze, Hans Schäuble, Giorgio Federico Ghedini and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. She also made numerous concert appearances, especially with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra, Heilbronn, conducted by Jörg Faerber. Among other works, Lautenbacher instigated and premièred the Concerto for violin and voices Orpheus by Arthur Dangel and the Violin Concerto Septuarchie by Eva Schorr. She also performed regularly in chamber music, principally with the Bell'Arte Trio, Ulrich Koch, Thomas Blees then Martin Ostertag, and the pianist Martin Galling.