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The German violinist, Susanne [Suzanne] Lautenbacher, studied violin with the Munich-based violin pedagogue Karl Freund (first violin of the Freund Quartet) and later with Henryk Szeryng. She was a prize-winner in the early years of the Munich ARD Violin Competition. On some early recordings her name appears as Suzanne or Susi.
Susanne Lautenbacher has made a large number of gramophone recordings, and featured in numerous recordings of concertos and chamber music between the late 1950's and early 1990's, on labels such as Vox, Turnabout, Intercord, Bärenreiter-Musicaphon, Bayer, and many others. She has recorded works by Biber, Locatelli, J.S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Haydn, W.A. Mozart including two of the five Violin Concertos and the Concertone K. 190, L.v. Beethoven including the Concerto, both Romances and the 'Spring' and 'Kreutzer' Sonatas, J.N. Hummel, Schubert, Rolla, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Spohr, Viotti, Johannes Brahms, Max Reger, Béla Bartók, Kurt Weill, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Hans Pfitzner, Hans Werner Henze, Hans Schaeuble, Giorgio Federico Ghedini (Concerto dell'albatro) and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. She also made numerous concert appearances, especially with the Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, conducted by Jörg Faerber. Among other works, Lautenbacher instigated and premièred the Concerto for violin and voices Orpheus (1978/1979) by Arthur Dangel and the Violin Concerto Septuarchie (1975) by Eva Schorr. She also performed regularly in chamber music, principally with the Bell'Arte Trio (Stuttgart), Ulrich Koch (viola), Thomas Blees then Martin Ostertag (cello), and the pianist Martin Galling. With other instrumentalists, the Trio also appeared as the Bell'Arte Ensemble.
Susanne Lautenbacher taught the violin for many years at the Stuttgart Conservatoire where she was appointed to a professorship in 1965. Her husband, Heinz Jansen (1906-2002), a violinist in the Armin Lutz and Karl Freund String Quartets and also a viola player in the Edwin Fischer Chamber Orchestra, after World War II became a recording engineer and producer who founded and directed his own classical music recording company, the Südwest-Tonstudio Stuttgart, where many of Susanne Lautenbacher's numerous recordings were made. |
