Anne-Sophie Mutter/Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields/Sir Neville Marriner

Biography

Mutter was born in Rheinfelden, Germany. She began playing the piano at age five, and shortly afterwards the violin, studying with Erna Honigberger, a pupil of Carl Flesch. Upon Honigberger's death, she continued her studies with Aida Stucki, at the Winterthur Conservatory.

Mutter never plays with a shoulder rest. Even clothes are a barrier to her sense of oneness with her violin.

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