Anna Barbara Speckner

Anna Barbara Speckner (20 October 1902 – 10 February 1995)[1] was a German harpsichordist, pianist, and music editor. She was married to Greek musicologist, pianist, and philosopher Thrasybulos Georgiades.

Anna Barbara Speckner
Birth nameAnna Barbara Speckner
Born(1902-10-20)20 October 1902
Munich, Germany
Died10 February 1995(1995-02-10) (aged 92)
Munich, Germany
GenresClassical
Occupation(s)Musician
InstrumentsHarpsichord
LabelsHarmonia Mundi

Life

Speckner was born in Munich, Germany on 20 October 1902. She studied piano with composer August Schmid-Lindner (1870–1959) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich from 1927 to 1936. She then went on to study with Dorothee Günther-Schule in Munich.[2] From 1962 to 1968, Speckner taught harpsichord during the summer months at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. In 1966, she began teaching at the Orff Institute Salzburg (an institution of the Mozarteum).[3]

In 1936, Speckner married Thrasybulos Georgiades (1907–1977), director of the Athens Conservatoire.[4] She taught and performed in Munich, Athens, Heidelberg, and Salzburg. In 1963, a documentary film directed by Aito Mäkinen was produced in the Ateneum Museum of Speckner performing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.[5] Among Speckner's students is Romanian-German composer and organist Michael Radulescu.[6] Speckner died on 10 February 1995 in Munich at the age of 92.[1]

Publications

Speckner served as executive music editor for various publications, editing historical works for keyboard, including:

  • Old English Contredances, edited for keyboard by Anna Barbara Speckner, Verlag B. Schott's Söhne Mainz 1967, 31 pages.
  • From Old Play Books: 32 Dances and Pieces from the 16th and 17th Century, for Keyboard Instruments edited by Anna Barbara Speckner, Schott Verlag Mainz 1972, 52 pages.

References
  1. "Speckner, Anna Barbara (1902–1995), Cembalistin". Bayerisches Musiker-Lexikon Online (in German). Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  2. Bennwitz, Hanspeter (1964). Interpretenlexikon der Instrumentalmusik (in German). Francke Verlag, Bern und München. p. 124. ISBN 9783317006392.
  3. Altmann, Frank (1964). Kurzgefaßtes Tonkünstler-Lexikon (in German). Heinrichhofen's Verlag Wilhelmshaven. p. 15. ISBN 9783795900878.
  4. Eggebrecht, Hans Heinrich; Göllner, Marie Louise (9 July 2019). "Georgiades, Thrasybulos G(eorgios)". Oxford Music Online – Grove Music Online. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.10888. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  5. "Anna Barbara Speckner". Swedish Film Database. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  6. "Michael Radulescu". radulescu.at. Retrieved 21 December 2019.

Further reading
  • Aus dem Freundeskreis der "Weißen Rose". 2014. Hammerstein, Notker. Wallstein Verlag GmbH. ISBN 9783835313842
  • Die Weiße Rose. Kurt Hubers. Utz Verlag GmbH. ISBN 9783831646869
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