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The mystery of Anja Thauer, the greatest cellist you’ve never heard of – The Guardian
A prodigious talent, the young cellist was rewarded with a Deutsche Grammophon contract and toured all over Europe. Why has the ‘German Du Pré’ been forgotten today?…
Do we hear music differently if theres tragedy in the life story of its composer or performer? And if we do, are we bestowing that music with a melancholy, or insight, and sometimes even a greatness, that isnt there?
These are some of the thoughts I had while researching the little-known German cellist Anja Thauer for a BBC Radio 3 documentary, The Myth and Mystery of Anja Thauer. She was a child prodigy who went to the Paris Conservatoire in 1960 aged 15, won the Grand Prix, and immediately started…
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