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Renate Eggebrecht (born August 12, 1944 – died January 8, 2023) was a talented German violinist and a record producer. She helped share amazing music with the world!

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The violinist Renate Eggebrecht

Early Life and Music Training

Renate Eggebrecht was born in a town called Selent in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She started learning music from her mother before she was even four years old. Imagine starting so young!

When she was eight, she began studying with Hans Hilf, a teacher who had learned from a famous musician named Walther Davisson. Later, at age twelve, Renate studied violin with Friedrich Wührer and piano with Wilhelm Rau at the Lübeck College of Music.

She continued her music journey at the Munich College of Music. Renate also took special lessons with Professor Wolfram König. She attended advanced classes, called master classes, with famous violinists like Max Rostal. She also joined chamber music courses with the well-known LaSalle Quartet.

Her Musical Journey

Renate Eggebrecht loved music, especially pieces that were not very well known. In 1986, she started her own music group called the Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet.

Discovering Hidden Music

On March 6, 1988, Renate and her quartet performed some very special pieces for the first time ever. These were the Piano Quartet in A-flat Major (from 1822) and the String Quartet in E-flat Major (from 1834) by Fanny Mendelssohn. Fanny Mendelssohn was a brilliant composer, but her music was often overlooked. Renate performed these at the Gasteig Cultural Center in Munich.

Later in 1988, Renate helped publish these chamber music works. This meant more people could discover and play Fanny Mendelssohn's beautiful music.

Starting Troubadisc

To help share even more unknown or forgotten music, Renate Eggebrecht started her own music company in 1991. She called it Troubadisc. It was a special record label for Classical music.

Through Troubadisc, Renate made the very first CD recordings of chamber music by many amazing women composers. These included Fanny Hensel (born Mendelssohn), Ethel Smyth, Germaine Tailleferre, and Grażyna Bacewicz.

In 1993, she produced the first CD of all the songs by the French composer Nadia Boulanger. She did the same for the instrumental and piano songs of Ethel Smyth in 1997. Renate also produced more of Fanny Hensel's music, including her songs in 2001. In 1998, with pianist Wolfram Lorenzen, she released the first CD of Fanny Mendelssohn's piano cycle Das Jahr (meaning "The Year").

Recording Other Composers

Renate Eggebrecht and her ensemble also recorded many works by other composers. In 1994-1995, they recorded eight Darius Milhaud's String Quartets for CD. They also recorded his pieces Machine agricoles and Catalogue de Fleurs. In 1996, the Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet released CD recordings of two large string quartets by Arthur Bliss.

In 1997, Renate worked with German pianist Wolfram Lorenzen to release three CDs of Max Reger’s Piano Chamber Music. She then recorded all of Max Reger’s works for solo violin, finishing in 2003.

In 2000, with cellist Friedemann Kupsa, she made the first recording of the Sonata for violin and violoncello (1947) by Nikos Skalkottas. They also recorded the Sonatina op. 324 by Darius Milhaud. In 2002, Renate and Friedemann Kupsa presented the first recording of the Duo-Sonata (1985) by Anatol Vieru. They also recorded "Strassenmusik No 16", op. 210 (2001) by Dimitri Nicolau.

In 2002, she released a collection called VIOLIN SOLO. This collection started with Max Reger’s Chaconne op. 117 and included works from Bach's Sei Solo all the way to modern violin music.

Renate Eggebrecht played a special violin. It was a copy of a Stradivarius violin, made by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume in 1858. Her favorite violin bow was made by Jules Fétique.

Discography

Here are some of the many recordings Renate Eggebrecht made with her company, TROUBADISC Musicproduction: [1]

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