Sabine Bauer is a German

harpsichordist A harpsichordist is a person who plays the harpsichord. Harpsichordists may play as soloists, as accompanists, as chamber musicians, or as members of an orchestra, or some combination of these roles. Solo harpsichordists may play unaccompanied son ...

, pianofortiste and flautist specialising in the repertoire of

Baroque music Baroque music ( or ) refers to the period or dominant style of Classical music, Western classical music composed from about 1600 to 1750. The Baroque style followed the Renaissance music, Renaissance period, and was followed in turn by the Class ...

and classical period, adept at

historically informed performance Historically informed performance (also referred to as period performance, authentic performance, or HIP) is an approach to the performance of Western classical music, classical music which aims to be faithful to the approach, manner and style of ...

, i.e. performance on ancient instruments (or copies of ancient instruments).

Formation

Bauer studied the flute at the conservatories of Cologne, Berlin and Frankfurt with Michael Schneider, and the harpsichord with and Harald Hoeren.Aeolus
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Andreas Staier Andreas Staier (born 13 September 1955 in Göttingen) is a German pianist and harpsichordist. Life Staier studied piano and harpsichord in the Hochschule für Musik in Hanover and Amsterdam. He studied piano with Kurt Bauer and Erika Haase, a ...

Ton Koopman Antonius Gerhardus Michael "Ton" Koopman (; born 2 October 1944) is a Dutch conductor, organist, harpsichordist, and musicologist, primarily known for being the founder and director of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir. He is a professor ...

and

Gustav Leonhardt Gustav Maria Leonhardt (30 May 1928 – 16 January 2012) was a Dutch keyboardist, conductor, musicologist, teacher and editor. He was a leading figure in the historically informed performance movement to perform music on period instruments. Leo ...

Career

In 1979, Bauer was one of the founding members of the ensemble Camerata Köln, together with Michael Schneider (flute), Ingeborg Scheerer (violin), Sabine Lier (violin) and Rainer Zipperling (cello and viola da gamba).

Alain Pâris Alain Pâris (born 22 November 1947) is a French conductor and musicologist. Biography Born in Paris, Alain Pâris was trained as a pianist and has a law degree. He studied conducting with Pierre Dervaux, Paul Paray and Georg Solti and won the ...

, ''Le nouveau dictionnaire des interprètes'', Robert Laffont, 2015. She then joined the ensemble

La Stagione Frankfurt La Stagione Frankfurt is a German ensemble of Baroque music, Baroque and Classical period (music), classical music, adept at historically informed performance. History The ensemble La Stagione Frankfurt was founded in 1988 by the German flautist ...

founded by Michael Schneider. In addition to her activity as harpsichordist in these two ensembles, she regularly accompanies singers and instrumentalists in chamber music works and has also performed and recorded with the

Musica Antiqua Köln Musica Antiqua Köln was an early music group that was founded in 1973 by Reinhard Goebel and fellow students from the Conservatory of Music in Cologne Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhin ...

ensemble. Since 1986, Bauer has been a

lecturer Lecturer is an academic rank within many universities, though the meaning of the term varies somewhat from country to country. It generally denotes an academic expert who is hired to teach on a full- or part-time basis. They may also conduct re ...

at the

Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts The Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts (, HfMDK) is a state Hochschule for music, theatre and dance in Frankfurt and is the only one of its kind in the Federal State of Hesse. It was founded in 1938. At present around 900 studen ...

and teaches harpsichord, basso continuo and

chamber music Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of Musical instrument, instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a Great chamber, palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music ...

at the Academy of Music in Darmstadt.

Repertoire

With Michael Schneider and his ensemble La Stagione Frankfurt, whose slogan is ''Unerhörtes hörbar machen'' ('Make the unheard heard'),Website of the ensemble La Stagione Frankfurt
/ref> Bauer is committed to making little-known composers representative of the heard. ( Georg Matthias Monn), from the , (

Jiří Antonín Benda Georg Anton Benda (; 30 June 17226 November 1795) was a Bohemian composer, violinist and ''Kapellmeister'' of the classical period. Biography Born into a family of notable musicians in Old Benatek (today Benátky nad Jizerou), Bohemia, he st ...

) and the gallant style, (

Karl Friedrich Abel Carl Friedrich Abel (22 December 1723 – 20 June 1787) was a German composer of the pre-Classical era. He was a renowned player of the viola da gamba, and produced significant compositions for that instrument. He was director of music at th ...

) whose harpsichord concertos she has recorded. She has also worked the classical and romantic

Lied In the Western classical music tradition, ( , ; , ; ) is a term for setting poetry to classical music. The term is used for any kind of song in contemporary German and Dutch, but among English and French speakers, is often used interchangea ...

repertoire by accompanying the

bass-baritone A bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice. The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing three ...

Gotthold Schwarz Gotthold Schwarz (born 2 May 1952) is a German Bass-baritone and conductor. Based in Leipzig, he started as a member of the Thomanerchor and has conducted the Gewandhausorchester. Between 2016 and 2021, he was the 17th Thomaskantor after Johann ...

harpsichord A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard, keyboard. Depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, which in turn raises a mechanism with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic that plucks one ...

and

fortepiano A fortepiano is an early piano. In principle, the word "fortepiano" can designate any piano dating from the invention of the instrument by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1700 up to the early 19th century. Most typically, however, it is used to ref ...

Recordings

* 1994: ''

Goldberg Variations The ''Goldberg Variations'' (), BWV 988, is a musical composition for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of thirty variations. First published in 1741, it is named after Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, who may ...

'' by Johann Sebastian Bach. (Ars Musici) * 1995: ''Deutsche und niederländische Blockflötenmusik des 18. Jahrhundert'' with Michael Schneider and Annette Schneider * 1996: ''Concerti'' by Georg Matthias Monn, with La Stagione Frankfurt, cellist Rainer Zipperling and violinist Mary Utiger * 1997: ''Englische und Italienische Blockflötenmusik des 17.&18. Jahrhunderts'', with Michael Schneider, Rainer Zipperling and Yasunori Imamura * 2003: ''Concerto for harpsichord op.11 No. 1-6'' by

, with La Stagione Frankfurt * 2004: ''Concertos for harpsichord'' by Jiří Antonín Benda, with La Stagione Frankfurt * ''Bach in Cembalo e Viola da Gamba'', with Rainer Zipperling on the viola da gamba

References

External links

Sabine Bauer
on BNF * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bauer, Sabine German harpsichordists Fortepianists Date of birth missing Place of birth missing