Marie-Luise Neunecker

Marie Luise Neunecker (born 17 July 1955) is a German horn player and professor at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler".

Marie Luise Neunecker
Neunecker in 2011
Born	(1955-07-17) 17 July 1955 (age 70) Erbes-Büdesheim
Education	Hochschule für Musik Köln
Occupations	Hornist Academic teacher
Organizations	Frankfurt Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler"

Professional career

Neunecker was born in Erbes-Büdesheim. She studied musicology and German studies. She completed her horn studies with Erich Penzel [de] at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. In 1978 she started her career at the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt as second horn. In 1979 she was appointed principal horn with the Bamberg Symphony, and from 1981 to 1989 she held the same position with the hr-Sinfonieorchester. She has appeared as a soloist with various orchestras worldwide, and is also active as a chamber music player.

In 1986 she won first prize at the Concert Artists Guild international competition in New York.^[1]

In 1988 she was appointed professor at the Frankfurt Academy of Music and Performing Arts, and in 2004 she was appointed professor of horn at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler".^[2]

Volker David Kirchner dedicated his Orfeo for baritone, horn and piano on poems from Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus to her, premiered on 6 May 1988 in Karlsruhe with Hermann Becht and Nina Tichman.^[3]

György Ligeti dedicated to her his Hamburg Concerto, which she premiered on 20 January 2001 in Hamburg with the Asko Ensemble.^[4] She also recorded the work for Teldec's Ligeti Project series.^[5][6][7]

Recordings include works by Britten, Hindemith, Mozart and Richard Strauss and also lesser known repertory, such as horn concertos by Reinhold Glière, Paul Hindemith,^[8] Othmar Schoeck, and Vissarion Shebalin; three works for horn and piano by Alexander Glazunov; Poème by Charles Koechlin; and the concerto for violin, horn and orchestra by Ethel Smyth.^[9][10]

She has served on the jury of The Aeolus International Competition for Wind Instruments [de].^[11]

Discography

Concertante works

Year	Composer	Work	Conductor Orchestra	Format: Record label Catalogue number
?	W.A. Mozart	Horn Concertos 1–4	Thomas Füri Camerata Bern	Audio CD: Novalis Cat: 150 030-0
1993	Paul Hindemith	Horn Concerto	Werner Andreas Albert Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt	Audio CD: CPO Cat: 999142-2[8]
1993	Reinhold Glière Vissarion Shebalin	Horn Concerto, Op. 91 Horn Concertino	Werner Andreas Albert Bamberg Symphony	Audio CD: Koch/Schwann Cat: 3-1357-2 H1[10]
1995	Othmar Schoeck Charles Koechlin Ethel Smyth	Horn Concerto, Op. 65 Poème for horn and orchestra, Op. 70b Concerto for violin, horn and orchestra	Uri Mayer NDR Radiophilharmonie	Audio CD: Koch/Schwann Cat: 3-6412-2 H1[9]
1995	Max Reger	Scherzino for horn and orchestra	Horst Stein Bamberg Symphony	Audio CD: Koch/Schwann Cat: 3-1489-2 H1[12]
1999	Richard Strauss Benjamin Britten	Horn Concertos 1–2 Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings[13]	Ingo Metzmacher Bamberg Symphony	Audio CD: EMI Classics Cat: 72435 56183-2
2002	György Ligeti	Hamburg Concerto	Reinbert de Leeuw Asko Ensemble	Audio CD: Teldec Cat: 8573 88263-2

Chamber music

Year	Composer	Work	Ensemble	Format: Record label Catalogue number
?	W.A. Mozart	Quintet for horn and strings, KV 407	Mannheimer String Quartet	Audio CD: Novalis Cat: 150 006-2
1993	Alexander Glazunov	Reverie, Serenade, Idyll for horn and piano	Paul Rivinius (piano)	Audio CD: Koch/Schwann Cat: 3-1357-2 H1[10]
1996	György Ligeti	Trio for violin, horn and piano	Saschko Gawriloff (violin) Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)	Audio CD: Sony Classical Cat: SK62309[14]
1996	Johannes Brahms	Trio for piano, violin and horn in E Flat, Op.40	Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin) Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano)	Audio CD: EMI Classics 　Cat: CDC556385

• Neunecker, Marie Luise; Weithaas, Antje; Avenhaus, Silke; Brahms, Johannes; Aho, Kalevi; Ligeti, György (2011), Horn trios (in no linguistic content), Åkersberga, Sweden: BIS, OCLC 811642726