- Artist:
- Anja Thauer
Dvorak: Cello Concerto / Reger: Suite / Francaix: Fantasy (CD)
$12.95
Anja Heidi Thauer was born on 3rd July 1945 in the old Hanseatic port of Lubeck. She had her early music lessons in Braunschweig, some 160 miles to the south and grew up in Erlangen, attending the Conservatory in nearby Nuremberg. Friends spoke of a lonely childhood and a strict, domineering, even exploitative mother. Anja played violin-and-cello duets with her mother in public at twelve, performed the Boccherini-Grutzmacher B flat Concerto at her orchestral debut in Baden-Baden, aged thirteen and at fourteen entered Ludwig Hoelscher's Stuttgart Hochschule masterclass: he was the leading German cellist, a somewhat old-fashioned player but a profound musician.